Find a speaker

• 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

Logan Wright is a Partner at Rhodium Group and leads the firm’s China Markets Research work. Logan is also a Senior Associate of the Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Previously, … Continued

Maaike Doyer is a trailblazer in entrepreneurship, education, and investment with a unique passion for numbers. Starting her career in Mergers & Acquisitions, she swiftly rose to become the global CFO of a leading design firm, spearheading its successful expansion … Continued

Dr. Maha Aziz is a NYU Professor, Bestselling Author, Award-Winning Cartoonist and World Economic Forum Expert. Maha is on a mission to help others make sense of a world of growing global risk in a dangerous era of shock events. … Continued

• First USAF Female Fighter Pilot
• First USAF Female Fighter Wing Commander
• Combat Veteran

• Academic: Chinese speaking Dutch Professor of Innovation and Strategy with decade long China research
• Author: Pioneers, Hidden Champions, Change Makers and Underdogs: Lessons from China’s Innovators (MIT Press, forthcoming); Business ecosystems in China: Alibaba and competing Baidu, Tencent, Xiaomi and LeEco (Routledge, 2018)
• Thinker: Selected on the 2017 Thinkers50 Radar list of 30 next generation business gurus

• Grief informed trauma therapist
• Writer, grief advocate, and educator
• MA, LICSW (Masters Degree in child development and Masters Degree Social Work)

• 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

Dr. Pippa Malmgren is an economist who makes sense of the world economy and geopolitics by writing books, by founding tech businesses, by advising policymakers around the world and through public speaking and teaching. Her speciality is understanding the nexus … Continued

• 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