Danny Russel-2
  • Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute
  • Former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
  • Former Special Assistant to President Obama
  • Former National Security Staff Senior Director for Asian Affairs
Jane RS 3
  • 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
Rowan Simons
  • 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
Demetri Sevastopulo, U.S. Political Correspondent, The Financial Times
  • 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
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  • Founder and CEO of Climate Alpha Global
  • Founder & Managing Partner of FutureMap
  • The leading next-generation voice in geopolitics and global markets
  • One of Esquire’s “75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century”
  • Senior Fellow, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
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  • Former Global Head of Geopolitical Risk at HSBC
  • Dr Belopolsky previously worked in the national security space within the Government of Canada, including supporting the Prime Minister and National Security Advisor at the Privy Council Office
Jason miller
  • Former Trump for President Senior Communications Advisor
  • Former Trump Transition Team Communications Director
  • CNN Political Commentator
  • Managing Director, Teneo Strategy
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  • David and Diane Steffy Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
  • Director of Domestic Policy Studies and Lecturer in Public Policy, Stanford University
  • Member, United States Social Security Advisory Board
  • CNN Political Commentator
  • Former Senior Adviser to the 2016 Presidential Campaign of Senator Marco Rubio
  • Policy Director, Romney-Ryan 2012 Presidential Campaign
Laura Dowling
  • Former White House Chief Floral Designer
  • Author of the book Floral Diplomacy at the White House
  • Distinguished Flower Ambassador (Royal Horticultural Society of Belgium)
M.J. Greeven
  • Academic: Chinese speaking Dutch Professor of Innovation and Strategy with decade long China research
  • Author: Pioneers, Hidden Champions, Change Makers and Underdogs: Lessons from China’s Innovators (MIT Press, forthcoming); Business ecosystems in China: Alibaba and competing Baidu, Tencent, Xiaomi and LeEco (Routledge, 2018)
  • Thinker: Selected on the 2017 Thinkers50 Radar list of 30 next generation business gurus