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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

• Author of I am My Mother’s Daughter: Wisdom on Life, Loss, and Love
• Author of Crush Cancer and the Crush Cancer Workbook
• Creator of crazyperfectlife.com with over 200,000 followers

• 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

• 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

• Served as the principal deputy national security advisor in the second Trump administration from January to May 2025
• Served as Deputy Special Representative for North Korea
• Prior to his North Korea work, Alex led the State Department’s efforts to craft and implement the Free & Open Indo-Pacific Strategy as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Regional & Security Affairs in the State Department’s East Asia bureau
• Prior to his time at the State Department, Alex was the Foreign Policy Advisor & General Counsel to Senator Tom Cotton (R- Ark.)

Alvin Wang Graylin (汪丛青) is a global technology strategist, author of Our Next Reality (Hachette), Chairman of the Virtual World Society, and Senior Fellow at Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis (CCA). With more than 35 years researching … Continued

• Co-Founder and CEO of AI for Education
• Through her work, Amanda has reached hundreds of schools and thousands of educators worldwide, committed to helping them maximize their potential through the responsible and equitable adoption of AI.

• Co-Founder and CEO of ADDO AI
• Futurist and Artificial Intelligence Expert
• Chairman of 21C GIRLS, a charity that delivers free coding classes to girls in Singapore
• Co-Author of Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization
• Served on the Singapore Ministry of Education’s ASPIRE Steering Committee that developed a blueprint for transforming the national higher education system towards innovative industries

• Founder of Mehlman Consulting
• Served as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Technology Policy under President George W. Bush
• Worked as a senior leadership aide in the House of Representatives, general counsel to a national political party committee and policy counsel to Cisco Systems

• 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