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Ayesha Khanna - Singapore

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

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

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

Founder and CEO of Climate Alpha Global
Founder & Managing Partner of FutureMap
The leading next-generation voice in geopolitics and global markets
One of Esquire’s “75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century”
Senior Fellow, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore

Chancellor’s Professor of Africana Studies and the Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University
Professor Rose sits on the Boards of the Nathan Cummings Foundation, Color of Change and Black Girls Rock, Inc.
An internationally respected scholar of post civil rights era black U.S. culture, popular music, social issues, gender and sexuality
Author of the book Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America which is considered foundational text for the study of hip hop, one that has defined what is now an entire field of study

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)

Visiting Scholar at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy of the National University of Singapore
Served as Chairman and Executive Director of Kerry Logistics Network from 2012 to 2019
From September 1988 to May 2011, he served 23 years in the Singapore Government, and was Minister for Information and the Arts, Minister for Health, Minister for Trade & Industry and Minister for Foreign Affairs

Former Global Head of Geopolitical Risk at HSBC
Dr Belopolsky previously worked in the national security space within the Government of Canada, including supporting the Prime Minister and National Security Advisor at the Privy Council Office