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Randal Phillips - Montana, USA

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

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).

Served as the 12th Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Currently serves on the Board of Directors of Northrop Grumman and Domino Data Lab, and on the Board of Advisors for Spire Global and K2 Space
He commanded at every level across four decades of service, from three ships and a destroyer squadron to a carrier strike group and two fleets

Served commander Carrier Strike Group 8 embarked aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), and as commander, U.S. Fleet Cyber Command and U.S 10th Fleet
Served in joint positions as director of operations for NATO’s Joint Force Command Lisbon; as chief of staff for Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO; director of operations, J3, for U.S. Cyber Command; and as director of operations, J3, for the Joint Staff

Served as the principal deputy national security advisor in the second Trump administration from January to May 2025
Served as Deputy Special Representative for North Korea
Prior to his North Korea work, Alex led the State Department’s efforts to craft and implement the Free & Open Indo-Pacific Strategy as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Regional & Security Affairs in the State Department’s East Asia bureau
Prior to his time at the State Department, Alex was the Foreign Policy Advisor & General Counsel to Senator Tom Cotton (R- Ark.)

Former U.S. Ambassador to Singapore
Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution as well as a Trustee of the Asia Foundation and as a Director of the Asia Society of Northern California
Served as Under Secretary for International Trade at the U.S. Department of Commerce in the Bush (43) Administration
Author of Inside the Reagan White House (Post Hill Press 2025)

Current Chief International Advisor to former President Barack Obama
President Obama’s National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speech Writing (2009-2017)

Founder of Mehlman Consulting
Served as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Technology Policy under President George W. Bush
Worked as a senior leadership aide in the House of Representatives, general counsel to a national political party committee and policy counsel to Cisco Systems

Professor of political science and Founding Director of the Centre on Governance of China and the World at the University of Hong Kong
Former Director of Research and Senior Fellow of the John. L. Thornton China Center at The Brookings Institution
An expert in China’s political science and China-US relations
A Director of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations