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• Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
• Former director of Asian affairs at National Security Council (NSC)
• Member of the American Council on Foreign Relations

• Lane-Swig Senior Fellow and Managing Director at the Washington Institute
• Senior Director for the Near East and North Africa at the US National Security Council from 2005-2008
• Co-chair of Mitt Romney’s 2012 State Department transition team
• Diplomatic advisor to the Romney presidential campaign in 2012
• Special Assistant to Secretaries of State Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice from 2004-2005

Ryan Hass is director of the John L. Thornton China Center and the Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies at Brookings. He is also a senior fellow in the Center for Asia Policy Studies. Hass focuses his research and analysis on … Continued

Scott Kennedy is senior adviser and trustee chair in Chinese Business and Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). A leading authority on Chinese economic policy and U.S.-China commercial relations, Kennedy has been traveling to China for … Continued

Tong Zhao is a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, working for both the Nuclear Policy Program and Carnegie China. Formerly based in Beijing, he now conducts research in Washington on strategic security issues, such as nuclear … Continued

• Senior Associate in the Carnegie Asia Program
• An expert in China’s economic development and its impact on Asia and the global economy
• Adviser to the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank

Zongyuan Zoe Liu is Maurice R. Greenberg senior fellow for China studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Her work focuses on international political economy, global financial markets, sovereign wealth funds, supply chains of critical minerals, development finance, emerging … Continued