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• Founder of Sinology LLC, where he advises institutional investors and companies on China’s economy and the implications of U.S.–China relations
• Served as China strategist for Matthews Asia and as Shanghai-based China macro strategist for CLSA
• Served as U.S. Foreign Service Officer focused on China, including serving as Taiwan desk officer at the State Department and as head of the macroeconomics and domestic policy office at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.

• Senior Advisor of China Development Bank
• Senior Economist in China
• Former Visiting Scholar in the Department of Economics in Harvard
• Founder of China’s Government Securities Market

• 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).

• 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

• Partner at Rhodium Group and leads the firm’s China Markets Research work
• Senior Associate of the Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
• Served as head of China research for Medley Global Advisors and a China analyst with Stone & McCarthy Research Associates

• 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

• Senior adviser and trustee chair in Chinese Business and Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
• hosts the China Field Notes podcast, which features voices from on the ground in China
• From 2000 to 2014, Kennedy was a professor at Indiana University (IU), where he established the Research Center for Chinese Politics and Business and was the founding academic director of IU’s China Office

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• 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

• 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