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• 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

• Leading expert on e-commerce and the Internet in China and emerging markets
• Former Vice-President at Alibaba Group (2000-2008) as the company grew from an apartment into the world’s largest e-commerce company
• Entrepreneur, e-commerce consultant and director of award-winning documentary film, Crocodile in the Yangtze: the Alibaba Story

• 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)

• Director of the John L. Thornton China Center and the Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies at Brookings
• From 2013 to 2017, Hass served as the director for China, Taiwan and Mongolia at the National Security Council (NSC)
• Prior to joining NSC, Hass served as a Foreign Service Officer in U.S. Embassy Beijing

• John L. Wetherill Professor in the Department of Government, Adjunct Professor of Law, and the Director of the Tech Policy Institute in the Cornell Brooks School of Public Policy
• Dr. Kreps is the author of nine books, including Drones: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press)
• Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Senior Fellow at the Bitcoin Policy Institute, and a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations

Susan Shirk is research professor and the chair emeritus of the 21st Century China Center, an academic research center and university-based policy think tank at the School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego. She first visited China in 1971 … Continued

• Economics Professor at Renmin University’s School of Economics in Beijing
• Senior Fellow of the Brooking Institution Foreign Policy program and Acting Director of Tsinghua-Brookings Center
• Expert in Chinese agricultural development and economics

• China Business & Finance Editor for the Economist
• An expert in sustainability, global innovation, technology
• Chairman of the Economist‘s provocative series of conferences on innovation known as the Ideas Economy