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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

• Global Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning Expert
• Author of Knightmare on Wall Street and The Speed Traders
• Business consultant for billion dollar equity and hedge funds
• Futurist and Cyber Security Keynote Speaker
• Extensive research on Deep Learning for his upcoming volume The AI Breakthrough, How Artificial Intelligence is Advancing Deep Learning and Revolutionizing Your World, to be released in 2018.

• President and CEO of New York Institute of Technology (NYIT)
• An expert in the environment and sustainability, global higher education, and educational technology
• A frequent keynote speaker at conferences around the globe

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

Heino Klinck is the 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. His extensive experience includes 2+ decades abroad; leading global strategy efforts in … 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

• 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