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Ambassador David Adelman - New York City, New York, USA

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.

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

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)

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

35+ years at the forefront of PRC media and sports reform, working across major rights holders, broadcasters, brands, and government regulators — from the 1990 Beijing Asian Games preparatory committee to advising on all three Beijing Olympic bids (2000, 2008, 2022)
Founder of ClubFootball (2001), China’s first foreign-owned football club and now a leading grassroots network in Beijing, and author of the acclaimed book “Bamboo Goalposts” (2008, published in Chinese, French, and Portuguese)
A rare foreign voice inside Chinese football reform for two decades, whose advocacy directly influenced the 2016 Football Reform Plan separating the Chinese FA from government control