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● Chief Macro Investment Strategist, Private Capital Limited
● Global economist based in Hong Kong or 25+ years
● Chief Regional Economist: Smith New Court Far East Ltd., SG Warburg Far East Ltd., ABN-AMRO Ltd.
● Iconoclastic predictor of national and global trends

• Journalist focused on Chinese youth and education
• Author of China’s Millennials: The Want Generation
• Writing forthcoming book on Chinese students in the United States

• Senior Advisor of China Development Bank
• Senior Economist in China
• Former Visiting Scholar in the Department of Economics in Harvard
• Founder of China’s Government Securities Market

• Senior Fellow, Asia Society
• An expert on U.S.-China relations, Chinese political risk, North Korea, international affairs, and Asian politics
• On-air contributor, CBS-N, international affairs analyst, PRI’s The World

• Political Consultant
• Expertise in government relations, legislative processes, and U.S. state politics
• Former national security advisor to Republican leadership in the U.S. Senate and senior aide for North Korea policy at the U.S. Department of State
• Directed NGO offices in Asia, focused on humanitarian aid and good-governance

Mara Karlin, PhD is a senior executive and national security leader with two decades of experience shaping geopolitics, managing enterprise risk, and leading complex organizations at the highest levels of the U.S. government. She worked inside the Pentagon advising 6 secretaries … Continued

• Chairman and Principal, Wethington International LLC, an investment advisory firm
• An expert in finance, the global economy, global geopolitical trends and U.S. foreign policy (Asia, Europe, Middle East)
• Former Special Assistant to the President and Executive Secretary of the Economic Policy Council in the White House; Assistant Secretary for International Affairs, U.S. Treasury; Special Envoy on China, U.S. Treasury
• Senior Fellow and Executive Director, Project on Shaping the Asia-Pacific Future, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, Atlantic Council

• Awarding winning foreign correspondent and author
• Expert on the political economies and socio-cultural complexities of India, China and Indonesia in a comparative framework
• Author of Smoke and Mirrors, Chinese Whiskers, New Old World, Babies and Bylines and Choked!
• Young Global Leader with the World Economic Forum

• Randy spent 28 years with the Central Intelligence Agency’s Directorate of Operations, most recently serving as the Chief CIA representative in China
• Randy previously spent more than a decade as Managing Partner for Asia of the Mintz Group, managing the Group’s activities across Asia

• Senior Fellow, Lowy Institute in Sydney, Australia.
• Award-winning journalist and author