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- Managing Director and the General Counsel of KraneShares
- 15th U.S. Ambassador to Singapore
- Part-Time Professor of International Relations at New York University
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Former Georgia State Senator
- CEO, Shwe Strategies LLC
- Senior Advisor, Albright Stonebridge Group
- Senior Advisor, United States Institute of Peace
- Former U.S. Ambassador to Burma (Myanmar), 2012-2016; Special Envoy to Burma, 2011-2012
- Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (six months acting Assistant Secretary) overseeing Asia in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, 2009-2011
- Specialist in diplomacy and security policy with nearly 30 years of experience in Asian affairs and U.S.-Asia relations
- President of the National Democratic Institute (NDI)
- Coauthor of China: The Balance Sheet—What the World Needs to Know Now about the Emerging Superpower (2006), and China and the Developing World: Beijing’s Strategy for the 21st Century (2007).
- Founder of Sinology LLC, where he advises institutional investors and companies on China’s economy and the implications of U.S.–China relations
- Served as China strategist for Matthews Asia and as Shanghai-based China macro strategist for CLSA
- Served as U.S. Foreign Service Officer focused on China, including serving as Taiwan desk officer at the State Department and as head of the macroeconomics and domestic policy office at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.
- Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute
- Former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
- Former Special Assistant to President Obama
- Former National Security Staff Senior Director for Asian Affairs
- Author of I am My Mother’s Daughter: Wisdom on Life, Loss, and Love
- Author of Crush Cancer and the Crush Cancer Workbook
- Creator of crazyperfectlife.com with over 200,000 followers
- Served nearly 6 years in the White House National Security Council (2009-2015) as President Obama’s top advisor on Asia
- Longest serving Asia advisor to President Obama and a key architect of Obama’s China policy
- Served in Treasury Department as Policy Advisor to U.S.-China Strategic Economic Dialogue led by Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr.
- Served as Senior Asia Analyst at the RAND Corporation for 7 years
- Georgetown University Penner Family Chair in Asian Studies
- Served as the 22nd Deputy Secretary of The United States Department of State
- Chairman and Co-Founder of The Asia Group
- From 2009 to 2013, Kurt served as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
- Author or editor of ten books, including most recently The Pivot: The Future of American Statecraft in Asia
- Senior Fellow, Asia Society
- An expert on U.S.-China relations, Chinese political risk, North Korea, international affairs, and Asian politics
- On-air contributor, CBS-N, international affairs analyst, PRI’s The World
- Founder of The Horan Group
- Expert in cross cultural and women leaders
- Author of I Wish I’d Known That Earlier in My Career: The Power of Positive Workplace Politics and How Asian Women Lead: Lessons for Global Corporations
- Director for academics at Schwarzman Scholars
- Former Director, Emerita, Columbia Global Centers | East Asia
- Lecturer, Global Health, Harvard Medical School
- Adjunct Professor of Global Health Policy, Tsinghua University
- Expert on Globalization and Global Education, Global Health and Development, Women’s Health and Rights, and Population, Family Planning, Reproductive Health (with focus on China)
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