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Cheng Li - Hong Kong

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

Founding partner of the Rhodium Group (RHG), Head of China Research
Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University
Former Senior Adviser for International Economic Policy at the White House National Economic Council and National Security Council

US-China Correspondent at Financial Times
Previously served as Washington Bureau Chief, US Politics Correspondent, Pentagon & CIA Correspondent, Washington Business Correspondent and South China Correspondent
Spent four years running the FT’s Asia news operations from Hong Kong

Served for 36 years in intelligence and policy positions as one of the U.S. government’s foremost experts on China and the Indo-Pacific region
Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Asian Studies Program at Georgetown University’s Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service
Served as the China Director and then as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for East Asia

Hargrove Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University
From 2021–2023, Economy served as the senior foreign advisor (for China) to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce
Served as the C.V. Starr senior fellow and director for Asia Studies for over a decade at The Council on Foreign Relations
Author of book The World According to China (Polity, 2022)

Gov. James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs in the Government Department at Harvard University

CNN’s chief national security analyst and anchor of The Brief with Jim Sciutto
Throughout his career, he has reported from more than 50 countries across the globe
Author of four books, including the New York Times Bestseller, The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China and the Next World War, published in 2024 by Dutton Books
Served as chief of staff and senior advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to China, Gary Locke

Co-Founder of the Center for China Analysis (CCA) at the Asia Society Policy Institute alongside the Hon. Dr. Kevin Rudd, to whom he served as a Senior Advisor for almost a decade
Serves as an Advisory Board Member of the Bloomberg New Economy Forum
Co-founder of the Bloomberg New Economy International Cancer Coalition and a founding member of the AstraZeneca Global Health Equity Advisory Board

Distinguished Associate Fellow at the Centre for Security, Diplomacy, and Strategy, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, where she was responsible for overseeing relations with Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands
Served as the top U.S. official on North Korea policy, working closely with the Republic of Korea and Japan on global outreach, counterproliferation, sanctions, and countering North Korea’s cyber activities