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Karim Sadjadpour - Washington D.C. USA

Expert on Middle-Eastern politics and political structure – specifically Iranian affairs
Former Congressional Advisor and International Crisis Group member
Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment

David and Diane Steffy Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Director of Domestic Policy Studies and Lecturer in Public Policy, Stanford University
Member, United States Social Security Advisory Board
CNN Political Commentator
Former Senior Adviser to the 2016 Presidential Campaign of Senator Marco Rubio
Policy Director, Romney-Ryan 2012 Presidential Campaign

Professor at NYU’s International Relations MA program
She is a leading voice in global risk and future trends, and one of the few women in this male-dominated field
She serves as an advisor to the World Economic Forum on its Global Foresight Network
Co-chair in AI Policy at think tank The Digital Economist overseeing research on tech risks and opportunity

Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Former director of Asian affairs at National Security Council (NSC)
Member of the American Council on Foreign Relations

Strategic Advisor to C10 Labs, the MIT Media Lab based AI Venture Studio
She served President George W. Bush in the White House as Special Assistant to the President and on The National Economic Council
After 9/11 she was also assessed Terrorism Risks to the Economy and Pentagon procurement from tech startups
Her most recent bestseller, The Infinite Leader, won the International Press Award for the Best Book on Leadership for 2021

Asia Chairman to Milken Institute, an independent American economic think tank
Chairman Constellar Holding Ltd, a Temasek portfolio company in the exhibition and convention business
Served as Vice Chairman Asia and Operating Partner for Temasek, a global investment firm headquartered in Singapore

Served as president and CEO of America’s leading policy research institution focused exclusively on the Indo-Pacific – the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) – from 2019-2024
Appointed by the Senate Majority Leader to two terms as a Commissioner on the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission
Served as a political-military strategist in the U.S. Army, with assignments as China policy director in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, China strategist for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and as a military attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing

Former deputy senior director for China and Taiwan on the National Security Council (NSC) from 2021 to 2024
C.V. Starr senior fellow for Asia studies and director of the China Strategy Initiative at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
Assistant professor in the Security Studies Program in Georgetown’s Walsh School of Foreign Service
Author of The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order (Oxford University Press, 2021)

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