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• 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

• Former consumer and investigative Correspondent for ABC’s Good Morning America
• Winner of 13 Emmys and 4 Edward R. Murrow awards

• 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)

• 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

• Gov. James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs in the Government Department at Harvard University

• Founding partner of IN. Capital
• Served as Executive Chairman of The Commons Project Foundation, established to built global digital infrastructure as public good.
• Forbes World’s Top 50 Women in Tech in 2018 and Co-Chair of Fortune Global Tech Forum in 2019
• Her TED Talk “Why You Should Be Paid For Your Data” has over 3.3 million views

• 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

• Distinguished Associate Fellow at the Centre for Security, Diplomacy, and Strategy, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
• Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, where she was responsible for overseeing relations with Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands
• Served as the top U.S. official on North Korea policy, working closely with the Republic of Korea and Japan on global outreach, counterproliferation, sanctions, and countering North Korea’s cyber activities

Kate Andersen Brower recently co-authored the New York Times bestseller We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America with Norah O’Donnell. She is also the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Residence, which was made into a television series produced by Shonda Rhimes for … Continued

• Distinguished Fellow, Asia Research Institute, NUS
• Founding Dean, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS
• Former President, UNSC (Jan 2001 and May 2002)
• Former Permanent Secretary (CEO), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore
• Honorary International Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Visiting Fellow, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University