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• Partner, Reed Smith LLP
• 15^th U.S. Ambassador to Singapore
• Part-Time Professor of International Relations at New York University

• 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)

• Diplomat in Residence 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

• 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

• President, Paul G. Clifford & Associates, LLC
• Business strategist and historian of China
• Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
• Author of the acclaimed book, “The China Paradox”

● Chief Macro Investment Strategist, Private Capital Limited
● Global economist based in Hong Kong or 25+ years
● Chief Regional Economist: Smith New Court Far East Ltd., SG Warburg Far East Ltd., ABN-AMRO Ltd.
● Iconoclastic predictor of national and global trends

• Journalist focused on Chinese youth and education
• Author of China’s Millennials: The Want Generation
• Writing forthcoming book on Chinese students in the United States

• Senior Advisor of China Development Bank
• Senior Economist in China
• Former Visiting Scholar in the Department of Economics in Harvard
• Founder of China’s Government Securities Market

• 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

• Former CNN Beijing Bureau Chief and Correspondent
• Dean of foreign correspondents in China with 30-year media experience 
• Founding President, Peking University Overseas Students’ Alumni Association (2012-Present)