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• Founder of The Horan Group
• Expert in cross cultural and women leaders
• Author of I Wish I’d Known That Earlier in My Career: The Power of Positive Workplace Politics and How Asian Women Lead: Lessons for Global Corporations

• Director for academics at Schwarzman Scholars
• Former Director, Emerita, Columbia Global Centers | East Asia
• Lecturer,  Global Health, Harvard Medical School
• Adjunct Professor of Global Health Policy, Tsinghua University
• Expert on Globalization and Global Education, Global Health and Development, Women’s Health and Rights, and Population, Family Planning, Reproductive Health (with focus on China)

• 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

• President & CEO of Ken Miller Capital, LLC (“KMC”)
• Former Vice Chairman of Merrill Lynch Capital Markets and Credit Suisse First Boston
• An active member of the Council on Foreign Relations

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

• Managing Director and Chief Strategist at New York-based Silvercrest Asset Management
• An expert in global economy
• Featured by both Chinese and international media including CNN, BBC, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Forbes

• 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