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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

• 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

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

• Economics Professor at Renmin University’s School of Economics in Beijing
• Senior Fellow of the Brooking Institution Foreign Policy program and Acting Director of Tsinghua-Brookings Center
• Expert in Chinese agricultural development and economics

• China Business & Finance Editor for the Economist
• An expert in sustainability, global innovation, technology
• Chairman of the Economist‘s provocative series of conferences on innovation known as the Ideas Economy

• Professor of political science at Beijing Foreign Studies University
• Expert in US-China relations and policy
• Researches U.S. Congress, public opinion, U.S.-China relations, and Chinese foreign policy

• Professor of Economics at China’s Peking University
• Expert in China’s economic development and prolific journalist/scholar
• Winner of 2009 Chinese Economic Sun Yefang Award

• Founder and CEO of Young China Group
• Author of Young China: How the Restless Generation Will Change Their Country and the World, which explores a wide and deep range of identity questions impacting the country’s emerging young generation
• Fluent Mandarin speaker