Washington Institutute for Near East Policy
1828 L St NW #1050 Washington DC 20036
  • Lane-Swig Senior Fellow and Managing Director at the Washington Institute
  • Senior Director for the Near East and North Africa at the US National Security Council from 2005-2008
  • Co-chair of Mitt Romney’s 2012 State Department transition team
  • Diplomatic advisor to the Romney presidential campaign in 2012
  • Special Assistant to Secretaries of State Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice from 2004-2005
Patrick Chovanec
  • Managing Director and Chief Strategist at New York-based Silvercrest Asset Management
  • An expert in global economy
  • Featured by both Chinese and international media including CNN, BBC, CNBC, Wall Street JournalBloomberg, Forbes
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  • Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2016 to 2019
  • British Conservative Politician
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • Randy spent 28 years with the Central Intelligence Agency’s Directorate of Operations, most recently serving as the Chief CIA representative in China
  • Randy previously spent more than a decade as Managing Partner for Asia of the Mintz Group, managing the Group’s activities across Asia
Robin Hu
  • Asia Chairman to Milken Institute, an independent American economic think tank
  • Chairman Constellar Holding Ltd, a Temasek portfolio company in the exhibition and convention business
  • Served as Vice Chairman Asia and Operating Partner for Temasek, a global investment firm headquartered in Singapore
Rowan Simons
  • 35+ years at the forefront of PRC media and sports reform, working across major rights holders, broadcasters, brands, and government regulators — from the 1990 Beijing Asian Games preparatory committee to advising on all three Beijing Olympic bids (2000, 2008, 2022)
  • Founder of ClubFootball (2001), China’s first foreign-owned football club and now a leading grassroots network in Beijing, and author of the acclaimed book “Bamboo Goalposts” (2008, published in Chinese, French, and Portuguese)
  • A rare foreign voice inside Chinese football reform for two decades, whose advocacy directly influenced the 2016 Football Reform Plan separating the Chinese FA from government control
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  • 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
Rumman Chowdhury
  • 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
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