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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

• 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

• 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

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

Heino Klinck is the founder and principal of Klinck Global LLC. He is a global strategist, business executive, retired U.S. Army Colonel, former diplomat, and international policy expert. His extensive experience includes 2+ decades abroad; leading global strategy efforts in … Continued

Dr. Helen Belopolsky is a geopolitical risk professional who has spent twenty years in academia, government and the private sector, proactively managing the complicated and rapidly changing geopolitical landscape. This perspective makes her uniquely placed to turn geopolitical risk into competitive advantage. … Continued