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Kishore Mahbubani - Singapore

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

Partner at Rhodium Group and leads the firm’s China Markets Research work
Senior Associate of the Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
Served as head of China research for Medley Global Advisors and a China analyst with Stone & McCarthy Research Associates

Founder of Epic, the largest female-only angel network in the APAC region
Started her career in Mergers & Acquisitions, she swiftly rose to become the global CFO of a leading design firm, spearheading its successful expansion from Europe to the U.S.

Professor at NYU’s International Relations MA program
She is a leading voice in global risk and future trends, and one of the few women in this male-dominated field
She serves as an advisor to the World Economic Forum on its Global Foresight Network
Co-chair in AI Policy at think tank The Digital Economist overseeing research on tech risks and opportunity

Academic: Chinese speaking Dutch Professor of Innovation and Strategy with decade long China research
Author: Pioneers, Hidden Champions, Change Makers and Underdogs: Lessons from China’s Innovators (MIT Press, forthcoming); Business ecosystems in China: Alibaba and competing Baidu, Tencent, Xiaomi and LeEco (Routledge, 2018)
Thinker: Selected on the 2017 Thinkers50 Radar list of 30 next generation business gurus

Strategic Advisor to C10 Labs, the MIT Media Lab based AI Venture Studio
She served President George W. Bush in the White House as Special Assistant to the President and on The National Economic Council
After 9/11 she was also assessed Terrorism Risks to the Economy and Pentagon procurement from tech startups
Her most recent bestseller, The Infinite Leader, won the International Press Award for the Best Book on Leadership for 2021

Served as president and CEO of America’s leading policy research institution focused exclusively on the Indo-Pacific – the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) – from 2019-2024
Appointed by the Senate Majority Leader to two terms as a Commissioner on the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission
Served as a political-military strategist in the U.S. Army, with assignments as China policy director in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, China strategist for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and as a military attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing

CEO and co-founder of Humane Intelligence, a nonprofit advancing community-driven AI auditing and evaluation
Previously, she led AI ethics teams at Twitter and Accenture, pioneering enterprise-level AI risk mitigation tools
Responsible AI Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center and a trusted advisor to international organizations on AI policy and ethics

Former deputy senior director for China and Taiwan on the National Security Council (NSC) from 2021 to 2024
C.V. Starr senior fellow for Asia studies and director of the China Strategy Initiative at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
Assistant professor in the Security Studies Program in Georgetown’s Walsh School of Foreign Service
Author of The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order (Oxford University Press, 2021)