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• Author of I am My Mother’s Daughter: Wisdom on Life, Loss, and Love
• Author of Crush Cancer and the Crush Cancer Workbook
• Creator of crazyperfectlife.com with over 200,000 followers

David Fishman is a Shanghai-based analyst, writer, and speaker focused on China’s economic transformation, industrial development, energy transition, and technology landscape. A Principal at The Lantau Group and a fluent Mandarin speaker, David has spent more than fifteen years living … Continued

• 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

• Corporate Entrepreneur
• Futurist of Work
• Future Boards

• Served nearly 6 years in the White House National Security Council (2009-2015) as President Obama’s top advisor on Asia
• Longest serving Asia advisor to President Obama and a key architect of Obama’s China policy   
• Served in Treasury Department as Policy Advisor to U.S.-China Strategic Economic Dialogue led by Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr.
• Served as Senior Asia Analyst at the RAND Corporation for 7 years
• Georgetown University Penner Family Chair in Asian Studies

• Served as the 22nd Deputy Secretary of The United States Department of State
• Chairman and Co-Founder of The Asia Group
• From 2009 to 2013, Kurt served as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
• Author or editor of ten books, including most recently The Pivot: The Future of American Statecraft in Asia

• Founder and CEO of Climate Alpha Global
• Founder & Managing Partner of FutureMap
• The leading next-generation voice in geopolitics and global markets
• One of Esquire’s “75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century”
• Senior Fellow, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore

• President, Paul G. Clifford & Associates, LLC
• Business strategist and historian of China
• Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
• Author of the acclaimed book, “The China Paradox”

• 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