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• Served as the 12th Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
• Currently serves on the Board of Directors of Northrop Grumman and Domino Data Lab, and on the Board of Advisors for Spire Global and K2 Space
• He commanded at every level across four decades of service, from three ships and a destroyer squadron to a carrier strike group and two fleets

• 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.)

Alvin Wang Graylin (汪丛青) is a global technology strategist, author of Our Next Reality (Hachette), Chairman of the Virtual World Society, and Senior Fellow at Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis (CCA). With more than 35 years researching … Continued

• Co-Founder and CEO of AI for Education
• Through her work, Amanda has reached hundreds of schools and thousands of educators worldwide, committed to helping them maximize their potential through the responsible and equitable adoption of AI.

• 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)

• Co-Founder and CEO of ADDO AI
• Futurist and Artificial Intelligence Expert
• 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

• 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)