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Ambassador Derek J. Mitchell - Washington D.C. USA

CEO, Shwe Strategies LLC
Senior Advisor, Albright Stonebridge Group
Senior Advisor, United States Institute of Peace
Former U.S. Ambassador to Burma (Myanmar), 2012-2016; Special Envoy to Burma, 2011-2012
Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (six months acting Assistant Secretary) overseeing Asia in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, 2009-2011
Specialist in diplomacy and security policy with nearly 30 years of experience in Asian affairs and U.S.-Asia relations
President of the National Democratic Institute (NDI)
Coauthor of China: The Balance Sheet—What the World Needs to Know Now about the Emerging Superpower (2006), and China and the Developing World: Beijing’s Strategy for the 21^st Century (2007).

Served nearly 6 years in the White House National Security Council (2009-2015) as President Obama’s top advisor on Asia
Longest serving Asia advisor to President Obama and a key architect of Obama’s China policy
Served in Treasury Department as Policy Advisor to U.S.-China Strategic Economic Dialogue led by Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr.
Served as Senior Asia Analyst at the RAND Corporation for 7 years
Georgetown University Penner Family Chair in Asian Studies

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)

Served as the 12th Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Currently serves on the Board of Directors of Northrop Grumman and Domino Data Lab, and on the Board of Advisors for Spire Global and K2 Space
He commanded at every level across four decades of service, from three ships and a destroyer squadron to a carrier strike group and two fleets

Current Chief International Advisor to former President Barack Obama
President Obama’s National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speech Writing (2009-2017)

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

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

Expert on Middle-Eastern politics and political structure – specifically Iranian affairs
Former Congressional Advisor and International Crisis Group member
Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment