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- Served commander Carrier Strike Group 8 embarked aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), and as commander, U.S. Fleet Cyber Command and U.S 10th Fleet
- Served in joint positions as director of operations for NATO’s Joint Force Command Lisbon; as chief of staff for Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO; director of operations, J3, for U.S. Cyber Command; and as director of operations, J3, for the Joint Staff
- Served as the principal deputy national security advisor in the second Trump administration from January to May 2025
- Served as Deputy Special Representative for North Korea
- Prior to his North Korea work, Alex led the State Department’s efforts to craft and implement the Free & Open Indo-Pacific Strategy as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Regional & Security Affairs in the State Department’s East Asia bureau
- Prior to his time at the State Department, Alex was the Foreign Policy Advisor & General Counsel to Senator Tom Cotton (R- Ark.)
- 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)
- Current Chief International Advisor to former President Barack Obama
- President Obama’s National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speech Writing (2009-2017)
- Founder of Mehlman Consulting
- Served as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Technology Policy under President George W. Bush
- Worked as a senior leadership aide in the House of Representatives, general counsel to a national political party committee and policy counsel to Cisco Systems
- Professor of political science and Founding Director of the Centre on Governance of China and the World at the University of Hong Kong
- Former Director of Research and Senior Fellow of the John. L. Thornton China Center at The Brookings Institution
- An expert in China’s political science and China-US relations
- A Director of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations
- 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), Head of China Research
- Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University
- Former Senior Adviser for International Economic Policy at the White House National Economic Council and National Security Council
- US-China Correspondent at Financial Times
- Previously served as Washington Bureau Chief, US Politics Correspondent, Pentagon & CIA Correspondent, Washington Business Correspondent and South China Correspondent
- Spent four years running the FT’s Asia news operations from Hong Kong
- Served for 36 years in intelligence and policy positions as one of the U.S. government’s foremost experts on China and the Indo-Pacific region
- Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Asian Studies Program at Georgetown University’s Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service
- Served as the China Director and then as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for East Asia
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