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• A free-lance correspondent based in Beijing and Berlin, accredited in China for The New York Times
• Writer for New York Review of Books, which is widely recognized as an influential magazine of ideas, The New Yorker, National Geographic
• An expert in China issues (especially politics, stability, prospects for reform), Islam in Europe, non-fiction writing and problems in journalism
• 2001 Pulitzer Prize Winner for International Reporting (China coverage)

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

• Director of the Center for Humanities & the Arts at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she also holds an appointment as Professor of Ethnic Studies
• Serves as the President of the Association for Asian American Studies (2020-2022)
• In addition to her academic work, Ho is active in community engagement around issues of race and intersectionality, leading workshops on anti-racism and how to talk about race in our current political climate

• Author of China Goes West: Everything You Need to Know About Chinese Companies Going Global (Palgrave Macmillan)
• An expert on global branding, and how Chinese companies are reshaping international business
• Managing Director at Frontier Strategy Group
• Member of the National Committee on United States-China Relations

• Editor-at-large at SupChina
• Consultant and Author
• Author of the critically-acclaimed The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present
• Author of Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China
• Formerly the Beijing bureau chief and editor with The Washington Post

• Director of the Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University
• An expert in East Asian political economy
• Former Special Advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to Japan

• 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

• Former White House Chief Floral Designer
• Author of the book Floral Diplomacy at the White House
• Distinguished Flower Ambassador (Royal Horticultural Society of Belgium)

• The first Chinese woman to climb the highest peak on each of the seven continents and to ski to both the North Pole and the South Pole.
• Expert and Coach on Mental Strength training, Setting Right Goals, Sustainable Motivations, Building a Passionate Team.

• Professor of political science and Founding Director of the Centre on Governance of China and the World at the University of Hong Kong
• Former Director of Research and Senior Fellow of the John. L. Thornton China Center at The Brookings Institution
• An expert in China’s political science and China-US relations
• A Director of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations