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• 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

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

• Former U.S. Ambassador to Singapore
• Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution as well as a Trustee of the Asia Foundation and as a Director of the Asia Society of Northern California
• Served as Under Secretary for International Trade at the U.S. Department of Commerce in the Bush (43) Administration
• Author of Inside the Reagan White House (Post Hill Press 2025)

• Founder and CEO of Climate Alpha Global
• Founder & Managing Partner of FutureMap
• The leading next-generation voice in geopolitics and global markets
• One of Esquire’s “75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century”
• Senior Fellow, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore

• Former consumer and investigative Correspondent for ABC’s Good Morning America
• Winner of 13 Emmys and 4 Edward R. Murrow awards

• Former Trump for President Senior Communications Advisor
• Former Trump Transition Team Communications Director
• CNN Political Commentator
• Managing Director, Teneo Strategy

• Partner at DGA-Albright Stonebridge Group
• Served as the Chief Representative of BASF in China for 27 years, where he was responsible for guiding the company’s investment strategies for China, negotiating large projects and leading the company’s government relations
• Served as President of the EU Chamber of Commerce in China three times

• 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

• David and Diane Steffy Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
• Director of Domestic Policy Studies and Lecturer in Public Policy, Stanford University
• Member, United States Social Security Advisory Board
• CNN Political Commentator
• Former Senior Adviser to the 2016 Presidential Campaign of Senator Marco Rubio
• Policy Director, Romney-Ryan 2012 Presidential Campaign