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Dennis Wilder - USA

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

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

Founder and principal of Klinck Global LLC
He is a global strategist, business executive, retired U.S. Army Colonel, former diplomat, and international policy expert
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia in the first Trump Administration
Serves as Director of Army International Affairs. Assigned to U.S. diplomatic missions in China for 7+ years, he was one of the longest-serving Military Attachés at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and the Consulate-General in Hong Kong

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

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