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Professor Dennis Wilder 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. Since retiring from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 2016, he has been … Continued
- Served nearly 6 years in the White House National Security Council (2009-2015) as President Obama’s top advisor on Asia
- Longest serving Asia advisor to President Obama and a key architect of Obama’s China policy
- Served in Treasury Department as Policy Advisor to U.S.-China Strategic Economic Dialogue led by Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr.
- Served as Senior Asia Analyst at the RAND Corporation for 7 years
- Georgetown University Penner Family Chair in Asian Studies
Dr. Kurt M. Campbell is the Chairman and Co-Founder of The Asia Group. Prior to re-joining TAG, Kurt most recently served as the 22nd Deputy Secretary of The United States Department of State, where he played a key role in … Continued
- 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
- President, Paul G. Clifford & Associates, LLC
- Business strategist and historian of China
- Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
- Author of the acclaimed book, “The China Paradox”
- 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
- Founder and Chairman, BDA China, a leading investment consulting firm.
- Author of “Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built”
- Founder, investor and leading advisor on China’s dynamic technology and consumer sectors.
- Recipient of the 2016 Book of the Year award by The Economist for ‘Alibaba‘
Elisabeth Leamy is best known for her decade as consumer and investigative Correspondent for ABC’s Good Morning America. She has interviewed presidents and first ladies, CEOs and celebrities, but is more proud that her stories spurred congressional inquiries, lawsuits, and … Continued
Elizabeth Economy is the 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. Economy was previously at the Council on Foreign Relations, where … Continued