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- 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

- 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

- 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

- 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

- 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

- 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

- 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

- Former White House Chief Floral Designer
- Author of the book Floral Diplomacy at the White House
- Distinguished Flower Ambassador (Royal Horticultural Society of Belgium)

- 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
