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• David and Diane Steffy Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
• Director of Domestic Policy Studies and Lecturer in Public Policy, Stanford University
• Member, United States Social Security Advisory Board
• CNN Political Commentator
• Former Senior Adviser to the 2016 Presidential Campaign of Senator Marco Rubio
• Policy Director, Romney-Ryan 2012 Presidential Campaign

• Professor of political science and Founding Director of the Centre on Governance of China and the World at the University of Hong Kong
• Former Director of Research and Senior Fellow of the John. L. Thornton China Center at The Brookings Institution
• An expert in China’s political science and China-US relations
• A Director of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations

Dr. Maha Aziz is a NYU Professor, Bestselling Author, Award-Winning Cartoonist and World Economic Forum Expert. Maha is on a mission to help others make sense of a world of growing global risk in a dangerous era of shock events. … Continued

• Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
• Former director of Asian affairs at National Security Council (NSC)
• Member of the American Council on Foreign Relations

• Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2016 to 2019
• British Conservative Politician

• Senior Fellow, the Director of Congressional Affairs, and a member of the leadership team at the German Marshall Fund of the United States
• Over 25 years of global affairs, public policy, legal, legislative, regulatory and political experience
• During the Obama Administration, Reta served as the U. S. Department of States’ first-ever Special Representative for Global Intergovernmental Affairs, under Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry from 2010 to 2013. She was the lead interlocutor in negotiating and executing the first historic agreements to solidify subnational cooperation and engagement efforts with BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) countries and with targeted countries in the European Union
• She serves as a Member of the Biden National Finance Committee, National Security Leaders for Biden, a Biden member of the Rules Committee for the 2020 Democratic National Convention, and she is the National Chair of Women of Color for Biden

Rick HELFENBEIN is the former president and CEO of the American Apparel & Footwear Association, the national trade association representing more than 1,000 brands in the apparel, footwear, and accessories industry. Rick is credited with overseeing a full overhaul of the … Continued

Roy D. Kamphausen is an internationally recognized expert on Indo-Pacific regional security issues, U.S.-China strategic competition, and China’s People’s Liberation Army. He was president and CEO of America’s leading policy research institution focused exclusively on the Indo-Pacific – the National … Continued

Rush Doshi (杜如松) is the C.V. Starr senior fellow for Asia studies and director of the China Strategy Initiative at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He is also an assistant professor in the Security Studies Program in Georgetown’s Walsh … Continued

Ryan Hass is director of the John L. Thornton China Center and the Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies at Brookings. He is also a senior fellow in the Center for Asia Policy Studies. Hass focuses his research and analysis on … Continued