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• Senior Adviser and Freeman Chair in China Studies at CSIS
• An expert in foreign defense policy and international defense
• Former Senior China Analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

• Founder & President of Smadja & Smadja Strategic Advisory Inc. (2001 – present)
• Managing Director of the World Economic Forum (1995 – 2001)

Demetri Sevastopulo covers all aspects of the US-China relationship, ranging from foreign policy, national security and intelligence to trade, economics and business. Demetri served as Washington Bureau Chief from 2015 to 2021, covering the White House, Trump administration and the … Continued

• 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

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

• 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

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

Dr. Helen Belopolsky is a geopolitical risk professional who has spent twenty years in academia, government and the private sector, proactively managing the complicated and rapidly changing geopolitical landscape. This perspective makes her uniquely placed to turn geopolitical risk into competitive advantage. … Continued

Alastair Iain Johnston (PhD University of Michigan, 1993) is the Gov. James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs in the Government Department at Harvard University. He has written on socialization theory, identity and political behavior, … Continued

Isaac B. Kardon is senior fellow for China studies in the Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is concurrently adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and was formerly assistant professor at the … Continued