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• CEO, Shwe Strategies LLC
• Senior Advisor, Albright Stonebridge Group
• Senior Advisor, United States Institute of Peace
• Former U.S. Ambassador to Burma (Myanmar), 2012-2016; Special Envoy to Burma, 2011-2012
• Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (six months acting Assistant Secretary) overseeing Asia in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, 2009-2011
• Specialist in diplomacy and security policy with nearly 30 years of experience in Asian affairs and U.S.-Asia relations
• President of the National Democratic Institute (NDI)
• Coauthor of China: The Balance Sheet—What the World Needs to Know Now about the Emerging Superpower (2006), and China and the Developing World: Beijing’s Strategy for the 21^st Century (2007).

• Served nearly 6 years in the White House National Security Council (2009-2015) as President Obama’s top advisor on Asia
• Longest serving Asia advisor to President Obama and a key architect of Obama’s China policy   
• Served in Treasury Department as Policy Advisor to U.S.-China Strategic Economic Dialogue led by Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr.
• Served as Senior Asia Analyst at the RAND Corporation for 7 years
• Georgetown University Penner Family Chair in Asian Studies

• Served as the 22nd Deputy Secretary of The United States Department of State
• Chairman and Co-Founder of The Asia Group
• From 2009 to 2013, Kurt served as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
• Author or editor of ten books, including most recently The Pivot: The Future of American Statecraft in Asia

• Founder and Chairman, BDA China, a leading investment consulting firm.
• Author of “Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built”
• Founder, investor and leading advisor on China’s dynamic technology and consumer sectors.
• Recipient of the 2016 Book of the Year award by The Economist for ‘Alibaba‘

• Journalist focused on Chinese youth and education
• Author of China’s Millennials: The Want Generation
• Writing forthcoming book on Chinese students in the United States

• Senior fellow for China studies in the Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and was formerly assistant professor at the U.S. Naval War College
• Author of China’s Law of the Sea: The New Rules of Maritime Order (Yale, 2023)

• Founder of The Horan Group
• Expert in cross cultural and women leaders
• Author of I Wish I’d Known That Earlier in My Career: The Power of Positive Workplace Politics and How Asian Women Lead: Lessons for Global Corporations

• Director for academics at Schwarzman Scholars
• Former Director, Emerita, Columbia Global Centers | East Asia
• Lecturer,  Global Health, Harvard Medical School
• Adjunct Professor of Global Health Policy, Tsinghua University
• Expert on Globalization and Global Education, Global Health and Development, Women’s Health and Rights, and Population, Family Planning, Reproductive Health (with focus on China)

• Professor at School of International Studies, and the Director of the Center for International Political Economy, Peking University, China.
• Professor at Party School of Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
• Member of Economic Diplomacy Expert Working Group, Ministry of Commerce(MOFCOM).
• Member of World Economic Forum (WEF)Global Agenda Council (GAC) on the Global Trade System.
• Commissioner of Asia Pacific Regional Trade Architecture Commission (organized by Asia Society, USA).

Aliza KNOX was named the IT Woman of the Year (Asia) in 2020, in the top 100 Women in Tech 2021 (Singapore), the AWA Singapore International Business Woman of the Year in 2015, elected to Chief Executive Women (Australia) in … Continued