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• Founding partner of the Rhodium Group (RHG), Head of China Research
• Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University
• Former Senior Adviser for International Economic Policy at the White House National Economic Council and National Security Council

Professor Dennis Wilder 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. Since retiring from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 2016, he has been … Continued

• 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

Elizabeth Economy is the Hargrove Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. From 2021–2023, Economy served as the senior foreign advisor (for China) to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce. Economy was previously at the Council on Foreign Relations, where … Continued

Heino Klinck is the founder and principal of Klinck Global LLC. He is a global strategist, business executive, retired U.S. Army Colonel, former diplomat, and international policy expert. His extensive experience includes 2+ decades abroad; leading global strategy efforts in … Continued

Dr. Helen Belopolsky is a geopolitical risk professional who has spent twenty years in academia, government and the private sector, proactively managing the complicated and rapidly changing geopolitical landscape. This perspective makes her uniquely placed to turn geopolitical risk into competitive advantage. … Continued

Alastair Iain Johnston (PhD University of Michigan, 1993) is the Gov. James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs in the Government Department at Harvard University. He has written on socialization theory, identity and political behavior, … Continued

Jim Sciutto is CNN’s chief national security analyst and anchor of The Brief with Jim Sciutto weekdays at 6 pm ET on CNN International and CNN Max. Sciutto reports and provides analysis on all aspects of U.S. national security, including … Continued

Jing Qian co-founded the Center for China Analysis (CCA) at the Asia Society Policy Institute alongside the Hon. Dr. Kevin Rudd, to whom he served as a Senior Advisor for almost a decade. As the Managing Director of CCA, Jing … Continued

• Editor-at-large at SupChina
• Consultant and Author
• Author of the critically-acclaimed The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present
• Author of Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China
• Formerly the Beijing bureau chief and editor with The Washington Post