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• Chairman and Principal, Wethington International LLC, an investment advisory firm
• An expert in finance, the global economy, global geopolitical trends and U.S. foreign policy (Asia, Europe, Middle East)
• Former Special Assistant to the President and Executive Secretary of the Economic Policy Council in the White House; Assistant Secretary for International Affairs, U.S. Treasury; Special Envoy on China, U.S. Treasury
• Senior Fellow and Executive Director, Project on Shaping the Asia-Pacific Future, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, Atlantic Council

• Awarding winning foreign correspondent and author
• Expert on the political economies and socio-cultural complexities of India, China and Indonesia in a comparative framework
• Author of Smoke and Mirrors, Chinese Whiskers, New Old World, Babies and Bylines and Choked!
• Young Global Leader with the World Economic Forum

• Senior Fellow, Lowy Institute in Sydney, Australia.
• Award-winning journalist and author

• Correspondent, Beijing Bureau of The Economist

• 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).

• Journalist based in Beijing
• Author of Wish Lanterns: Young Lives in New China
• Co-editor of While We’re Here, an anthology of stories from China
• Founder and editor of the Anthill, a ‘writers’ colony’ of stories from China

Aliza KNOX was named the IT Woman of the Year (Asia) in 2020, in the top 100 Women in Tech 2021 (Singapore), the AWA Singapore International Business Woman of the Year in 2015, elected to Chief Executive Women (Australia) in … Continued

• Co-Founder and CEO of ADDO AI
• Futurist and Artificial Intelligence Expert
• Philanthropist
• Chairman of 21C GIRLS, a charity that delivers free coding classes to girls in Singapore
• Co-Author of Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization
• Served on the Singapore Ministry of Education’s ASPIRE Steering Committee that developed a blueprint for transforming the national higher education system towards innovative industries
• An education, technology, and urbanization expert
• Co-Founder of the Hybrid Reality Institute, a research and advisory group established to analyze emerging technologies and their social, economic and political implications

• Senior Adviser and Freeman Chair in China Studies at CSIS
• An expert in foreign defense policy and international defense
• Former Senior China Analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

• Founding partner of the Rhodium Group (RHG)
• Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University
• Former Senior Adviser for International Economic Policy at the White House National Economic Council and National Security Council