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Maha Aziz - New York City, New York, USA

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

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

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

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

CEO and co-founder of Humane Intelligence, a nonprofit advancing community-driven AI auditing and evaluation
Previously, she led AI ethics teams at Twitter and Accenture, pioneering enterprise-level AI risk mitigation tools
Responsible AI Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center and a trusted advisor to international organizations on AI policy and ethics

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