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- 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)
- 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
- 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
- Hargrove Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University
- From 2021–2023, Economy served as the senior foreign advisor (for China) to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce
- Served as the C.V. Starr senior fellow and director for Asia Studies for over a decade at The Council on Foreign Relations
- Author of book The World According to China (Polity, 2022)
- Gov. James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs in the Government Department at Harvard University
- CNN’s chief national security analyst and anchor of The Brief with Jim Sciutto
- Throughout his career, he has reported from more than 50 countries across the globe
- Author of four books, including the New York Times Bestseller, The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China and the Next World War, published in 2024 by Dutton Books
- Served as chief of staff and senior advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to China, Gary Locke
- Co-Founder of the Center for China Analysis (CCA) at the Asia Society Policy Institute alongside the Hon. Dr. Kevin Rudd, to whom he served as a Senior Advisor for almost a decade
- Serves as an Advisory Board Member of the Bloomberg New Economy Forum
- Co-founder of the Bloomberg New Economy International Cancer Coalition and a founding member of the AstraZeneca Global Health Equity Advisory Board
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