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• Director for academics at Schwarzman Scholars
• Former Director, Emerita, Columbia Global Centers | East Asia
• Lecturer,  Global Health, Harvard Medical School
• Adjunct Professor of Global Health Policy, Tsinghua University
• Expert on Globalization and Global Education, Global Health and Development, Women’s Health and Rights, and Population, Family Planning, Reproductive Health (with focus on China)

• 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

• 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).

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• 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