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Susan A. Thornton is a retired senior U.S. diplomat with almost three decades of experience with the U.S. State Department in Eurasia and East Asia. She is currently a Senior Fellow and Visiting Lecturer in Law at the Yale University … Continued
- Economics Professor at Renmin University’s School of Economics in Beijing
- Senior Fellow of the Brooking Institution Foreign Policy program and Acting Director of Tsinghua-Brookings Center
- Expert in Chinese agricultural development and economics
- A dynamic speaker with expertise in coaching, training and consulting multinational corporate clients on leadership, collaborative teamwork and cross cultural communication
- An experienced actor, director, playwright and media personality
Tong Zhao is a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, working for both the Nuclear Policy Program and Carnegie China. Formerly based in Beijing, he now conducts research in Washington on strategic security issues, such as nuclear … Continued
- China Business & Finance Editor for the Economist
- An expert in sustainability, global innovation, technology
- Chairman of the Economist‘s provocative series of conferences on innovation known as the Ideas Economy
- Professor at School of International Studies, and the Director of the Center for International Political Economy, Peking University, China.
- Professor at Party School of Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- Member of Economic Diplomacy Expert Working Group, Ministry of Commerce(MOFCOM).
- Member of World Economic Forum (WEF)Global Agenda Council (GAC) on the Global Trade System.
- Commissioner of Asia Pacific Regional Trade Architecture Commission (organized by Asia Society, USA).
- Professor of political science at Beijing Foreign Studies University
- Expert in US-China relations and policy
- Researches U.S. Congress, public opinion, U.S.-China relations, and Chinese foreign policy
- Professor of Economics at China’s Peking University
- Expert in China’s economic development and prolific journalist/scholar
- Winner of 2009 Chinese Economic Sun Yefang Award
- Founder and CEO of Young China Group
- Author of Young China: How the Restless Generation Will Change Their Country and the World, which explores a wide and deep range of identity questions impacting the country’s emerging young generation
- Fluent Mandarin speaker
Zongyuan Zoe Liu is Maurice R. Greenberg senior fellow for China studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Her work focuses on international political economy, global financial markets, sovereign wealth funds, supply chains of critical minerals, development finance, emerging … Continued