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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

• A free-lance correspondent based in Beijing and Berlin, accredited in China for The New York Times
• Writer for New York Review of Books, which is widely recognized as an influential magazine of ideas, The New Yorker, National Geographic
• An expert in China issues (especially politics, stability, prospects for reform), Islam in Europe, non-fiction writing and problems in journalism
• 2001 Pulitzer Prize Winner for International Reporting (China coverage)

• Author of China Goes West: Everything You Need to Know About Chinese Companies Going Global (Palgrave Macmillan)
• An expert on global branding, and how Chinese companies are reshaping international business
• Managing Director at Frontier Strategy Group
• Member of the National Committee on United States-China Relations

• 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

Dr. Jung H. Pak is a Distinguished Associate Fellow at the Centre for Security, Diplomacy, and Strategy, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Dr. Pak was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, where she was responsible for overseeing relations with Australia, New Zealand, and the … Continued

• Director of the Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University
• An expert in East Asian political economy
• Former Special Advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to Japan

• Distinguished Fellow, Asia Research Institute, NUS
• Founding Dean, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS
• Former President, UNSC (Jan 2001 and May 2002)
• Former Permanent Secretary (CEO), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore
• Honorary International Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Visiting Fellow, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University

Latanya SWEENEY is a Professor of the Practice of Government and Technology at the Harvard Kennedy School and in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Government. Her mission is to create and use technology to assess and solve societal, political, … Continued

• Former White House Chief Floral Designer
• Author of the book Floral Diplomacy at the White House
• Distinguished Flower Ambassador (Royal Horticultural Society of Belgium)

• The first Chinese woman to climb the highest peak on each of the seven continents and to ski to both the North Pole and the South Pole.
• Expert and Coach on Mental Strength training, Setting Right Goals, Sustainable Motivations, Building a Passionate Team.