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• Journalist based in Beijing
• Author of Wish Lanterns: Young Lives in New China
• Co-editor of While We’re Here, an anthology of stories from China
• Founder and editor of the Anthill, a ‘writers’ colony’ of stories from China

Alex WONG served in senior positions at the U.S. Department of State overseeing high-stakes negotiations and initiatives at the forefront of U.S. strategy in the Indo-Pacific region. Alex was nominated by the President and unanimously approved by the Senate Foreign … Continued

Frank Lavin is active in U.S.-Asia policy, U.S. domestic politics, and trade policy matters. He serves as a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution as well as a Trustee of the Asia Foundation and as a Director of the Asia … Continued

• Co-Founder and CEO of ADDO AI
• Futurist and Artificial Intelligence Expert
• Philanthropist
• 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
• An education, technology, and urbanization expert
• Co-Founder of the Hybrid Reality Institute, a research and advisory group established to analyze emerging technologies and their social, economic and political implications

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

Bruce Mehlman is a highly sought-after keynote speaker on policy and political trends, regularly appearing before Boards and executive teams and headlining business conferences and strategic planning sessions. His weekly newsletter and infographic analyses are consistently picked-up by national media … Continued

• Founder & President of Smadja & Smadja Strategic Advisory Inc. (2001 – present)
• Managing Director of the World Economic Forum (1995 – 2001)

• 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

Professor Dennis Wilder 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. Since retiring from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 2016, he has been … Continued

Elizabeth Economy is the Hargrove Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. From 2021–2023, Economy served as the senior foreign advisor (for China) to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce. Economy was previously at the Council on Foreign Relations, where … Continued