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• 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

• Senior adviser and trustee chair in Chinese Business and Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
• hosts the China Field Notes podcast, which features voices from on the ground in China
• From 2000 to 2014, Kennedy was a professor at Indiana University (IU), where he established the Research Center for Chinese Politics and Business and was the founding academic director of IU’s China Office

• President of the US-China Business Council
• Served as the board chair of the American Chamber of Commerce in China and is the chair emeritus of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai
• co-chaired the China Public Policy Practice at Covington and Burling where he advised international businesses on political risk, public affairs, communications, and US and China government relations
• Sean previously served for nearly three decades as a US diplomat, including as Consul General in Shenyang and Shanghai. He also served on the China desk at the State Department, at the former consulate general in Chengdu, and in other positions around the Indo-Pacific

Steve Yates is a former deputy national security advisor to the Vice President, The Honorable Steve Yates serves as Senior Research Fellow for China and National Security Policy at The Heritage Foundation after two decades as an analyst and practitioner … Continued

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