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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

• Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson’s top advisor on China.
• Designed and managed the U.S.- China Strategic Economic Dialogue, highest level dialogue between the two countries governments.
• Architect of the U.S-China Ten Year Cooperative Framework on Energy and the Environment, which continues to serve as the foundation of the bilateral relationship on energy and environmental issues. Launched the EcoPartnership dialogue.
• A leading advisor to international companies and governments looking to engage in China.
• Founder and CEO, The Green Trust, a platform for innovation in environmental and clean energy technologies.

• Correspondent, Beijing Bureau of The Economist

• President and Chief Executive Officer of Barbara Franklin Enterprises
• An expert in corporate governance, auditing, and financial reporting practices
• The 29th U.S. Secretary of Commerce for President George H.W. Bush

• 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