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• Served as the principal deputy national security advisor in the second Trump administration from January to May 2025
• Served as Deputy Special Representative for North Korea
• Prior to his North Korea work, Alex led the State Department’s efforts to craft and implement the Free & Open Indo-Pacific Strategy as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Regional & Security Affairs in the State Department’s East Asia bureau
• Prior to his time at the State Department, Alex was the Foreign Policy Advisor & General Counsel to Senator Tom Cotton (R- Ark.)

Aliza KNOX was named the IT Woman of the Year (Asia) in 2020, in the top 100 Women in Tech 2021 (Singapore), the AWA Singapore International Business Woman of the Year in 2015, elected to Chief Executive Women (Australia) in … Continued

Alvin Wang Graylin (汪丛青) is a global technology strategist, author of Our Next Reality (Hachette), Chairman of the Virtual World Society, and Senior Fellow at Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis (CCA). With more than 35 years researching … Continued

• Co-Founder and CEO of AI for Education
• Through her work, Amanda has reached hundreds of schools and thousands of educators worldwide, committed to helping them maximize their potential through the responsible and equitable adoption of AI.

• Co-Founder and CEO of ADDO AI
• Futurist and Artificial Intelligence Expert
• Chairman of 21C GIRLS, a charity that delivers free coding classes to girls in Singapore
• Co-Author of Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization
• Served on the Singapore Ministry of Education’s ASPIRE Steering Committee that developed a blueprint for transforming the national higher education system towards innovative industries

• Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter
• Author of The Wolves of K Street: The Secret History of How Big Money Took over Big Government
• Worked for over two decades as an investigative reporter for The Wall Street Journal

• Founder of Mehlman Consulting
• Served as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Technology Policy under President George W. Bush
• Worked as a senior leadership aide in the House of Representatives, general counsel to a national political party committee and policy counsel to Cisco Systems

• US-China Correspondent at Financial Times
• Previously served as Washington Bureau Chief, US Politics Correspondent, Pentagon & CIA Correspondent, Washington Business Correspondent and South China Correspondent
• Spent four years running the FT’s Asia news operations from Hong Kong

• Served for 36 years in intelligence and policy positions as one of the U.S. government’s foremost experts on China and the Indo-Pacific region
• Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Asian Studies Program at Georgetown University’s Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service
• Served as the China Director and then as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for East Asia

• Chancellor’s Professor of Africana Studies and the Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University
• Professor Rose sits on the Boards of the Nathan Cummings Foundation, Color of Change and Black Girls Rock, Inc.
• An internationally respected scholar of post civil rights era black U.S. culture, popular music, social issues, gender and sexuality
• Author of the book Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America which is considered foundational text for the study of hip hop, one that has defined what is now an entire field of study