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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

• 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

• Distinguished Fellow, Asia Research Institute, NUS
• Founding Dean, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS
• Former President, UNSC (Jan 2001 and May 2002)
• Former Permanent Secretary (CEO), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore
• Honorary International Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Visiting Fellow, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University

• Maurice R. Greenberg Director’s Chair at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Visiting senior research fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore
• Chairman, Asia Pacific Region, at the CEO advisory firm Teneo
• An expert in China-US relations and the Asia-Pacific region
• Former Principal Assistant to the US President’s National Security Advisor and the China Director in the White House

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

• President of Harves Investment Group
• Founder of The Wade Group
• Former Senior Vice President and Head of China Operations at Green Tech Automotive

Alex WONG served in senior positions at the U.S. Department of State overseeing high-stakes negotiations and initiatives at the forefront of U.S. strategy in the Indo-Pacific region. Alex was nominated by the President and unanimously approved by the Senate Foreign … Continued

• Current Chief International Advisor to former President Barack Obama
• President Obama’s National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speech Writing (2009-2017)