Gregory C. Allen is the director of the Wadhwani Center for AI and Advanced Technologies and a senior fellow in the Strategic Technologies Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Prior to joining CSIS, he was the director of strategy and policy at the Department of Defense (DOD) Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, where he oversaw development and implementation of the DOD’s AI Strategy, drove policy and human capital reforms to accelerate the DOD’s adoption of AI, developed mechanisms for AI governance and ethics, and led frequent diplomatic engagements with governments and militaries in Europe and the Indo-Pacific regions, including China. Mr. Allen’s expertise and professional experience spans AI, robotics, semiconductors, space technology, and national security. Prior to working at the DOD, he was the head of market analysis and competitive strategy at Blue Origin, a space technology manufacturer and space launch services provider. Mr. Allen’s writing and commentary has appeared in in the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Economist, Nature, CNN, Fox News, Foreign Policy, and WIRED. He holds a joint MPP/MBA degree from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and the Harvard Business School.

Michael Allen has spent his career in the national security arena including in the White House, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and the private sector. Currently, Mr. Allen is Managing Director of Beacon Global Strategies LLC which advises clients on the intersection of business and national security. Mr. Allen is a frequent commentator on national security and foreign policy issues on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox and is the author of Blinking Red, Crisis and Compromise in American Intelligence after 9/11 (Potomac Books, 2013). He is also the recipient of the National Intelligence Superior Public Service Medal.

Kyle Chan is a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer in Sociology at Princeton University and affiliated with the Paul and Marcia Wythes Center on Contemporary China and the M. S. Chadha Center for Global India. His research focuses on industrial policy, clean technology, and infrastructure with a regional focus on China and India.

His previous work drew on two years of fieldwork in China and India comparing railway infrastructure development between these two countries. He has also published work on Chinese state-owned enterprises and Indian state bureaucracy.

He is currently working on a book on Chinese industrial policy that aims to explain how China came to dominate certain industries today that had originally been led by the US, Japan, and other industrialized nations. These industries include electric vehicles, solar, high-speed rail, and consumer electronics. The book will describe the wide range of industrial policy tools used in China and their ongoing efforts in other industries, such as semiconductors and biotechnology.

Kyle Chan writes a popular newsletter called High Capacity(Link is external) on industrial policy, clean technology, and infrastructure, particularly in China and India. He has been interviewed by international media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The New Republic, Fortune, Vox, MIT Technology Review, and India’s Economic Times.

Ted Dean is China practice co-lead and Partner at Albright Stonebridge.

Most recently, Ted served as the principal advisor on international affairs to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo traveling with the Secretary across four continents and covering a wide range of policy areas including tariff policy, export controls, international tech and AI policy, and coordination with foreign governments on semiconductor incentives.

Previously, Ted served in the Obama Administration as Deputy Assistant Secretary and Acting Assistant Secretary in the International Trade Administration at the Department of Commerce. In those roles, he worked on issues at the intersection of trade, technology, and privacy policy. Beyond government service, Ted was the Head of Public Policy at Dropbox.

Earlier in his career, Ted spent sixteen years in China, where he led a strategy consulting and investment advisory firm. While living in Beijing, he also served as Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in China.

Ted holds a BA in history from Yale College and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Michael Dunne is the CEO of Dunne Insights, an advisory firm with expertise in global electric vehicle markets and battery supply chains. Dunne is also an LP at Assembly Ventures, a Michigan-based venture capital company. A Detroit native, Dunne was previously the president of GM Indonesia and, before that, the managing director of JD Power operations in China. He worked in Asia for 25 years, both as an entrepreneur and as an executive in China, Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia.
Dunne is the author of the Wall-Street Journal acclaimed book, American Wheels, Chinese Roads. He earned an MBA/MA from the University of Michigan. He speaks Chinese, Thai and Indonesian.

David Fagan co-chairs the firm’s top ranked practices on cross-border investment and national security matters, including reviews conducted by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), and data privacy and cybersecurity.

David has been recognized by Chambers USA and Chambers Global for his leading expertise on bet-the-company CFIUS matters and has received multiple accolades for his work in this area, including twice being named Dealmaker of the Year by The American Lawyer. Clients laud him for “[seeing] far more matters than many other lawyers,” his “incredible insight,” and “know[ing] how to structure deals to facilitate regulatory reviews” (Chambers USA).

David’s practice covers representations of both foreign and domestic companies before CFIUS and related national security regulators. The representations encompass matters in which the principal assets are in the United States, as well as those in which there is a smaller U.S. nexus but where solving for the CFIUS issues—including through proactive mitigation and carve-outs—is a critical path for the transaction. David has handled transactions for clients across every sector subject to CFIUS review, including some of the most sensitive and complex matters that have set the template for CFIUS compliance and security agreements in their respective industries. He is also routinely called upon to rescue transactions that have run into challenges in CFIUS, and to negotiate solutions with the U.S. government that protect national security interests, while preserving shareholder and U.S. business interests.

Reflecting his work on U.S.-China investment issues and his experience on complex U.S. national security matters intersecting with China, David is regularly engaged by the world’s leading multi-national companies across a range of industries to advise on strategic legal projects, including supply chain matters, related to their positioning in the emerging competition between the U.S. and China, as well as on emerging legal issues such as outbound investment restrictions and regulations governing information and communications technologies and services (ICTS). David also has testified before a congressional commission regarding U.S. national security, trade, and investment matters with China.

Paul Haenle is head of Asia-Pacific Policy and Strategic Competitiveness at JPMorgan Chase. He joined the firm after 14 years at the Carnegie Endowment, where he was founding director of Carnegie’s two Asia-based research centers, in Beijing and Singapore. Concurrently, he was a senior adviser at Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel and Asia-Pacific chairman at Teneo, a CEO advisory firm. Haenle served as the China director on the National Security Council under former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama and played a key role as the White House representative to the U.S. negotiating team at the Six-Party Talks. Haenle also served for three years in the West Wing as special assistant to two U.S. national security advisers. Trained as a China foreign area officer in the U.S. Army, Haenle served as a senior adviser on China and Taiwan to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He was also assigned twice to the U.S. embassy in Beijing and held additional military postings in Korea, Germany, Kuwait and during Operation Desert Storm.

Peter Harrell is a former adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security. He is a leading expert on U.S. economic statecraft, including sanctions, export controls, trade policy, and other geoeconomic tools.

Harrell has published widely on topics including the use of economic coercion in the U.S.-China relationship, U.S. sanctions on Russia, Iran, and other countries, and the legal foundations of U.S. sanctions. He has testified in front of multiple congressional committees and his articles and op-eds have appeared in publications including the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Politico, Lawfare, and other leading outlets.

From 2012-2014, Mr. Harrell served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counter Threat Finance and Sanctions in the State Department’s Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs. From 2009 to 2012 he served on the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff, where he was instrumental in developing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s economic statecraft agenda.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Harrell served on President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign and as a reporter for Congressional Quarterly in Washington, D.C. He is the author of one book, Rwanda’s Gamble: Gacaca and a New Model of Transitional Justice. Mr. Harrell is a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University and holds a J.D. from the Yale Law School.

Michael Hart is President of the American Chamber of Commerce in China based in Beijing. He has over twenty-five years of business experience in Asia, including nineteen years in mainland China.

As President, Michael oversees all advocacy, programs, partnerships, and insights provided by the Chamber to support the business growth of nearly 900 foreign corporations operating in China, including most of the U.S. Fortune 500. The chamber’s advocacy includes the impressive American Business in China White Paper and Business Climate Survey each published annually as well as numerous interactions with both the US and Chinese governments on behalf of our members.

Prior to joining AmCham China, Michael spent most of his career in commercial real estate in Taipei, Shanghai and Tianjin including almost 20 years for a NYSE listed property services firm. He started in the research division briefing real estate owners, occupiers and investors on transactions and macro trends, he then opened, built, and led a branch office for the company in one of China’s largest Tier 1.5 cities for over a decade. Following this, Michael opened a private consulting and investment firm that among other projects invested in quick service restaurants.

In addition to this work, Michael was a long-term AmCham member and served on the Tianjin chapter’s Executive Committee for nearly 15 years including several terms as the local Chairman.

Michael holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a focus on finance and banking from the University of Missouri-Columbia in the U.S. He is a fluent speaker of mandarin Chinese. Michael was born and raised near Kansas City, Missouri.

Christopher K. Johnson is the President and CEO of China Strategies Group. As one of the top China experts in the field, his insights frequently are sought out by the world’s leading corporate, financial, and other business interests to help develop strategies for clients pursuing opportunities in China and regionally. Chris is based in New York but spends nearly half his time in China and the rest of Asia.

An accomplished Asian affairs specialist, Chris served for nearly two decades in the United States Government’s intelligence and foreign affairs communities. In addition to his work advising multinational corporations on their business and commercial strategies in China and greater East Asia, his insights on the Chinese leadership and on Beijing’s economic, commercial, foreign and security policies are regularly sought by senior Administration, Congressional, military, and foreign government officials. Chris also serves as a Senior Fellow on Chinese Politics at the Asia Society Policy Institute's Center for China Analysis and is a senior fellow in the office of the president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the preeminent foreign and security policy think tank in Washington, DC.

Chris worked as a senior China analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency, where he chronicled China’s dynamic political and economic transformation, the development of its robust military modernization program, and Beijing’s resurgence as a regional and global power. He served abroad in field sites throughout East Asia and speaks Mandarin Chinese. He was an intelligence liaison to two Secretaries of State and their deputies on worldwide security issues and in 2011 was awarded the U.S. Department of State’s Superior Honor Award for outstanding support to the Secretary and her senior staff. He also served with distinction in providing daily intelligence support to President George W. Bush.

After departing the CIA in 2012, Chris was appointed the Freeman Chair in China Studies at CSIS and founded China Strategies Group. Over eight years at CSIS, he mirrored his government success by establishing himself as a highly acclaimed public thought leader on China. Chris graduated summa cum laude with bachelor’s degrees in history and political science from the University of California, San Diego and received his master’s degree in Security Policy Studies from the George Washington University.

Sarah joined Intel in February of 2022 with decades of global policy expertise. Before joining Intel, she served as the Associate Vice President (AVP) for Global Health Policy/ESG Strategy for Organon and was Merck’s AVP for Public Policy for Asia Pacific and the Emerging Markets.

Before joining the private sector, Ms. Kemp served as the Deputy Under Secretary for the International Trade Administration at the U.S. Department of Commerce. She oversaw a $485 million annual budget and 2,100 trade and investment professionals based in 108 US cities and 76 markets worldwide. In addition she served as the Minister Counselor for Commercial Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and had postings in Hanoi, Hong Kong, and Bangkok.

She received her MBA from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, her MPA from Columbia University, and her BA from Hamilton College. Ms. Kemp is an independent board member of NTIC and CIPE and a member of the WEF’s Global Future Council on China. She also is on the Advisory Council of Indiana University’s Manufacturing Policy Initiative.

Mike Kuiken serves as a Commissioner on the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission following nearly 23 years in the U.S. Senate. He is also a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, an Expert Advisor at the Special Competitive Studies Project, and an advisor to CEOs, boards, and senior leaders of investment, AI, defense, and technology firms across the country.

Mike previously served as Majority Leader Schumer's National Security Advisor, holding the Senate's most senior national security staff role. He also crafted and led the successful campaign that secured the passage of the CHIPS and Science Act and played a key role in establishing and managing the Senate's Artificial Intelligence Insight Forums.

Prior to joining Senator Schumer’s team, Mike spent more than 12 years as a professional staff member on the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Over the course of his career, Mike has been on the front lines of virtually every consequential national security policy issue – the war on terrorism, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, crisis in Darfur, U.S. pressure campaign against Iran, Arab Spring, conflict in Syria, rise of the Islamic State, Benghazi, America's rebalance to confront China, Russia’s interference in American democracy, responding to cyber events, Taiwan, and the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza. He has traveled to more than 75 countries and has visited the frontlines of every major war zone since 9/11.

Mike began his career on the staff of the late Senator Carl Levin.

Commissioner Michael Kuiken was appointed to the Commission by Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer for a term expiring December 31, 2025.

Alvin Q. Liu was named president of Boeing China in September 2023. He serves as Boeing’s senior in-country executive, leading company-wide activities and supporting the development and implementation of Boeing’s China strategy. Liu is also responsible for leading government and community engagement, supporting new business and industrial partnerships, and expanding Boeing’s relationships with stakeholders in China. He reports to Dr. Brendan Nelson AO, president of Boeing Global.

Liu joined Boeing in 2022 as executive vice president of Government Operations, Boeing China and was responsible for building and strengthening partnerships with government stakeholders in China.

Previously, Liu had two decades of senior leadership experience with Ford Motor Company, serving as vice chairman of the company’s Greater China Operations and vice president of Ford International Market Group. Liu previously also held leadership roles at Chrysler Corporation and DaimlerChrysler AG.

Liu earned his master’s degree in International Relations and his Juris Doctor from Marquette University in the United States.

As a Senior Advisor, Ellen Lord shares her expertise after more than thirty years of experience holding senior positions in the defense industry. At The Chertoff Group she provides counsel regarding defense programs, homeland security and the protection of critical infrastructure.

Until recently, Ms. Lord served as the first Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment (A&S), leading the Department of Defenses personnel, policies and processes involved in Pentagon acquisition, contracts, logistics, and the defense industrial base.

Prior to this appointment, from October 2012 – June 2017, Ms. Lord served as the President and CEO of Textron Systems, a subsidiary of the Textron Company. In this role, she led a multi-billion dollar business with a broad range of products and services supporting defense, homeland security, aerospace, and infrastructure protection. Earlier in her career, Ms. Lord served as Vice President of Integration Management for Textron Systems and Vice President of Intelligent Battlefield Systems for Textron Defense Systems, in addition to other business and operations positions.

Ms. Lord is a former Vice Chairman of the National Defense Industrial Association, as well as a former Director of the U.S.-India Business Council. She has served on the industry steering committee for the Center for New American Security’s (CNAS) task force on “Strategy, Technology and the Global Defense Industry,” as well as CNAS’s DoD-Industry collaborative project ‚“Future Foundry: Forging New Industries for Defense,” which was formed to examine key technological trends and challenges facing the global defense industry. Ms. Lord has also served on the Board of Trustees of the U.S. Naval Institute Foundation.

Ms. Lord earned a Master of Science degree in chemistry from the University of New Hampshire, as well as a Bachelor of Arts degree in chemistry from Connecticut College.

Bruce Andrews has more than 30 years of public policy and government affairs experience. He served as deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce from 2014 to 2017 and chief of staff to the secretary from 2011 to 2014. Prior to the Department of Commerce, Andrews served as general counsel of the Senate Commerce Committee for Chairman Jay Rockefeller. From September 2021 to January 2025, he served as senior vice president and chief government affairs officer at Intel Corporation, where he led Intel’s global government affairs group and oversaw the company’s government affairs, trade, community affairs, digital education and public policy functions and strategies. Prior to Intel, Andrews served as senior vice president and managing partner, coleading global government affairs, at SoftBank Group. Prior to SoftBank, Andrews served as managing director at Rock Creek Global Advisors, an international economic and trade policy advisory firm. Earlier in his career, he was vice president of Governmental Affairs for Ford Motor Company, where he oversaw U.S. federal and state government affairs. Before that, he was one of the founding members of Quinn Gillespie & Associates. Additionally, Andrews was an attorney at Arnold & Porter, legislative director to Congressman Tim Holden and started his career with Senator Alan Cranston. Andrews is a graduate of Haverford College and the Georgetown University Law Center.

Jason Bernstein is the Director of Global Affairs at the American Chemistry Council (ACC), specializing in international trade and supply chain issues. He has over 20 years of experience in trade and investment, dispute settlement, market access, customs, and industry/economic analysis, and has successfully resolved numerous trade and supply chain issues. At ACC, he focuses on opening new markets for U.S. exports of innovative chemicals and plastic products and technologies, reducing and preventing technical barriers to trade that harm U.S. chemical producers and workers, and cultivating resilient and strategically integrated supply chains to manage vulnerabilities to political, economic, and environmental factors.

Before ACC, Jason Bernstein was the Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for American Competitiveness and Enterprise at the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) and the senior trade negotiator and policy advisor on rules of origin and customs for the U.S. Government. Jason was also a lead U.S. negotiator for the USMCA and CPTPP Agreements. Before becoming a Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative, Jason was the Director of Customs Affairs and Director of Market Access and served as the lead negotiator for customs and market access issues. Jason earned a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematical Economics from Temple University and a Master of International Policy Studies with a Major in International Economics and Trade Policy from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.

As executive vice president, chief policy officer, and head of strategic advocacy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Neil Bradley is responsible for the organization’s overall advocacy efforts. In addition to managing policy development for the Chamber, Bradley oversees its government affairs activities, political program, and relations with other business organizations.

At the Chamber, Bradley has led the national discussion on hundreds of high-profile policy issues, influencing legislation at the federal, state, and local levels. He frequently appears on broadcast and cable news networks to present the business community’s priorities.

Prior to joining the Chamber, Bradley spent nearly 20 years working in the House of Representatives, including 11 years working for the House Republican leadership. He served as deputy chief of staff for then-Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (CA) where he developed the legislative agenda for House Republicans, oversaw policy formulation in the leader’s office, and coordinated committee activity in the House. Bradley held the same position for Eric Cantor (VA) during his tenure as majority leader. Before that, he was policy director for House Republican Whip Roy Blunt (MO).

After leaving Capitol Hill, Bradley founded Chartwell Policy Solutions, LLC, a research, analysis, and advisory firm focused on public policy issues.

While working on Capitol Hill, Bradley was regularly named to Roll Call’s list of 50 top congressional staffers. The Hill recognized Bradley on its list of top lobbyists, and the Washingtonian magazine listed him as one of the Most Influential People in Washington.

Bradley serves on numerous boards, including the advisory board for the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University; the board of the Convergence Center for Policy Resolution; and the board for the Center for International Private Enterprise, where he is president and permanent secretary.

Bradley, a graduate of Georgetown University, resides in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with his wife, Kiki, and their son, Peter. He is a native of Sapulpa, Oklahoma.

Zack Cooper is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he studies US strategy in Asia, including alliance dynamics and US-China competition. He also teaches at Princeton University and serves as chair of the board of the Open Technology Fund. He is currently writing a book for Yale University Press that explains how militaries change during power shifts.

Before joining AEI, Dr. Cooper was the senior fellow for Asian security at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He previously worked as codirector of the Alliance for Securing Democracy and senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and research fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. He also served as assistant to the deputy national security adviser for combating terrorism at the National Security Council and as a special assistant to the principal deputy under secretary of defense for policy at the Department of Defense.

Dr. Cooper has published research reports on a number of aspects of US strategy and alliances in Asia. He has also co-authored several books and written articles for academic journals and popular press, including International Security, Security Studies, Foreign Affairs, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal, among other outlets. Dr. Cooper graduated from Princeton University with a PhD and an MA in security studies and an MPA in international relations. He received a BA in public policy from Stanford University.

Gerard DiPippo is the acting associate director of the RAND China Research Center and a senior international/defense researcher in RAND's D.C. office. Prior to joining RAND, DiPippo was the Senior Geo-Economics Analyst at Bloomberg Economics. His research focuses on China's economy, US-China relations, industrial policy, global supply chains, financial issues, and sanctions. He was previously a Senior Fellow in the Economics Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He served 11 years in the US Intelligence Community, including at the Central Intelligence Agency and as a Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Economics Issues at the National Intelligence Council. DiPippo has a B.A. in economics and philosophy from Dartmouth College.

Rush Doshi is the C.V. Starr senior fellow for Asia studies and director of the China Strategy Initiative at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). His expertise includes China’s foreign policy, U.S. strategy toward China, cross-strait issues, and Indo-Pacific security.

Before joining CFR, Doshi was deputy senior director for China and Taiwan on President Joe Biden’s National Security Council (NSC), where he served from 2021 to 2024 and helped manage the NSC’s first China directorate. During his tenure, Doshi coordinated U.S. government policy on China and Taiwan, drafted the administration’s China strategy, and negotiated with PRC counterparts. For five months in 2021, he was the U.S. government’s lead action officer coordinating the negotiations that launched AUKUS, a trilateral security partnership for the Indo-Pacific region between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Doshi is an assistant professor in Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service. He is the author of The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order (Oxford University Press, 2021). Doshi was also coeditor of Global China: Assessing China’s Growing Role in the World (Brookings, 2021). His research has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, as well as in peer-reviewed academic publications such as International Organization and Asia Policy. He has testified before the Senate Commerce Committee and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.

Prior to his government service, Doshi was a fellow at the Brookings Institution and Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center. Doshi also served as coordinator of the Asia policy working group for the Biden 2020 presidential campaign. He was previously a non-resident senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, special adviser to the CEO of the Asia Group, and a Wilson Center China Fellow. He has also served five years as an officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve.

Doshi received his bachelor’s degree from Princeton University in public policy with a minor in East Asian Studies and his PhD from Harvard University focusing on Chinese foreign policy. He was also a Fulbright fellow in China and is proficient in Mandarin.

David Feith served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Technology and National Security at the National Security Council as well as U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. Before that, he was an editorial writer for The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong.

At the Department of State from 2017 to 2021, David helped create the U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy and reorient U.S. policy toward China and Asia generally. As Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, he oversaw the Offices of Multilateral Affairs and Regional and Security Policy, with responsibility for South China Sea policy, relations with the 10-country Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), security cooperation, foreign assistance programming, and budgeting. He regularly represented the State Department in the interagency policy process, official multilateral forums, and other international meetings.

From 2017 to 2019, David served as a member of the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff, advising on relations with China and countries across the Indo-Pacific region, for which he received a Superior Honor Award. In this capacity he helped launch the Indo-Pacific Business Forum and establish a range of initiatives focused on great-power competition, strengthening alliances and partnerships, and commercial diplomacy.

At The Wall Street Journal, David was based in Hong Kong from 2013 to 2017, writing editorials on Asian economic and political affairs, and was earlier an op-ed editor for three years in New York. He also worked as an assistant editor at Foreign Affairs magazine.

David has consulted for the U.S. Air Force and published a book entitled Teaching America: The Case for Civic Education. He has a B.A. in history from Columbia University.

Caitlin Frazer is the Executive Director of the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology. In this capacity, she leads the staff of the Commission in supporting the Commissioners in advising Congress on policy issues at the intersection of biotechnology, national security, and economic competitiveness. She previously served as Legislative Director to Senator Jon Ossoff (GA), a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee. She stood up the Office of Representative Chrissy Houlahan (PA-06) and served as her chief policy advisor as a member of the Armed Services and Foreign Affairs Committees. Earlier in her career, Caitlin was National Security Advisor to Senator Bob Casey (PA) and a policy advisor in the State Department’s Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs. She was a Presidential Management Fellow and holds a BA and MPP from the University of Virginia.

Charles Freeman, senior vice president for Asia at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, has been helping companies navigate complex markets in the Asia-Pacific for 25 years. His career included senior stints in government, business, law, and academia, giving him a unique perspective on the challenges and opportunities in the world’s most dynamic region.

During his government career, Freeman was assistant U.S. trade representative for China affairs, serving as principal U.S. trade negotiator with China. He also was legislative counsel in the U.S. Senate, where he concentrated on East Asian economic and trade issues.

After leaving government, Freeman consulted on Chinese and other Asia-focused business and policy matters for some of the world’s leading companies during market entry, expansion, and crises phases alike. He also served as PepsiCo’s vice president for global public policy and government affairs for Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.

In addition, Freeman was chair of China studies at Washington, D.C.-based think tank the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Earlier, he was based in Hong Kong with The Asia Foundation and the International Herald Tribune and worked as a securities lawyer and venture capitalist investing in emerging markets in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and China.

He is on the board of directors of Harding Loevner Funds, an internationally focused mutual fund group and is also a senior adviser to CSIS.

Freeman earned his doctor of law degree from Boston University’s School of Law and his bachelor’s degree in Asian studies and economics from Tufts University. He did postgraduate work at Fudan University in Shanghai and studied Mandarin Chinese at the Taipei Language Institute.

Jimmy Goodrich is a leading expert on technology, geopolitics, and national security with a focus on China and East Asia. He is a senior advisor for technology analysis to the RAND Corporation and a nonresident fellow at the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, where he works in various capacities on research regarding China, technology, and national competitiveness. Jimmy was previously the vice president for global policy at the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), where he led the industry’s supply chain, international trade, export control, global market research, and China efforts. His work at SIA included research on Chinese industrial policy and chip industry economics, efforts to successfully secure $52 billion in funding for the CHIPS and Science Act, and navigating complex multinational export control and other national security issues. Jimmy was also the director for China policy at the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) in Washington D.C., and prior to that spent seven years in the tech sector in China. Jimmy holds a bachelor’s degree in comparative politics and East Asian studies from Ohio University. Jimmy is professionally fluent in Mandarin and is a board member of the American Mandarin Society, which seeks to promote mandarin language study in the United States.

Chris Griswold is the policy director at American Compass, a think tank dedicated to restoring an economic consensus that emphasizes the importance of family, community, and industry to the nation’s liberty and prosperity. Griswold’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, National Affairs, the Dallas Morning News, Newsweek, American Affairs, Comment, and The Hill, among other publications. He was previously a senior advisor in the U.S. Senate. Before working on Capitol Hill, Griswold helped launch and run a nationwide youth development nonprofit in South Africa. In summer 2023 Griswold was a CFR-Hitachi International Affairs Fellow in Japan, where he served as a Visiting Scholar at the Japanese’s government’s Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry. He is a graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary and a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Mark Kennedy is the founding director of the Wahba Institute for Strategic Competition, which advances the technology leadership, innovation and manufacturing ecosystems, infrastructure investment, and alliances that underpin American strength in an era of intensifying geopolitical competition. He has served as a university president and as a U.S. Congressman. As President Emeritus of the University of Colorado and former President of the University of North Dakota, Kennedy led strategic transformations focused on student success, research excellence, affordability, and opportunity. In Congress, he championed bipartisan legislation to enhance global competitiveness, drive infrastructure investment, and foster innovation. A first-generation college graduate, he is the author of Shapeholders (Columbia University Press), a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Civic Leader supporting the Secretary of the Air Force, and a Senior Fellow at CNA (Center for Naval Analyses).

Josh Lipsky is the senior director of the Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics Center. He previously served as an advisor at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Speechwriter to Christine Lagarde.

Prior to joining the IMF, Josh was an appointee at the State Department, serving as Special Advisor to the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy.

Before joining the State Department, Josh worked in the White House and was tasked with helping plan President Obama’s participation at the G-20, G-7, and other global summits. He has also worked on Capitol Hill and at the Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

He is a term-member at the Council on Foreign Relations and an Economic Diplomacy Fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

In these roles he has advised policymakers on a range of emerging challenges to the global economy, including trade wars, the reform of the Bretton Woods system, and the rise of digital currencies.

His analysis, writing, and commentary have been featured in the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Bloomberg, and CNBC, among others.

Josh is a licensed attorney, accredited to practice in Maryland and Washington, D.C. He holds a J.D. from Georgetown University Law School, a Master’s degree from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a B.A. from Columbia University. Josh, his wife Leah, and their daughters Clara and Hannah, live in Maryland.

Jason Matheny is president and chief executive officer of RAND, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that helps improve policy and decision-making through research and analysis.

Prior to becoming RAND's president and CEO in July 2022, he led White House policy on technology and national security at the National Security Council and the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Previously, he was founding director of the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University and director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), where he was responsible for developing advanced technologies for the U.S. intelligence community. Before IARPA, he worked for Oxford University, the World Bank, the Applied Physics Laboratory, the Center for Biosecurity, and Princeton University.

Matheny has served on many nonpartisan boards and committees, including the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, to which he was appointed by Congress in 2018. He is a recipient of the Intelligence Community's Award for Individual Achievement in Science and Technology, the National Intelligence Superior Service Medal, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. He was also named one of Foreign Policy's “Top 50 Global Thinkers.”

Matheny holds a Ph.D. in applied economics from Johns Hopkins University, an M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins University, an M.B.A. from Duke University, and a B.A. in art history from the University of Chicago.

James McGregor is chairman of APCO Worldwide’s greater China region and author of two highly regarded books: No Ancient Wisdom, No Followers: The Challenges of Chinese Authoritarian Capitalism, and One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China. He also wrote the noted APCO monograph China’s Drive for Indigenous Innovation—A Web of Industrial Policies.

Prior to joining APCO, Mr. McGregor was the founder and CEO of a China-focused consulting and research firm for hedge funds, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal and a chief executive of Dow Jones & Company in China. Mr. McGregor is also a former chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in China, and has long served as a leader of AmCham’s U.S., government relations. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, the International Council of Asia Society and a board member of the U.S.-China Education Trust.

Mr. McGregor is a professional speaker, regular television and radio commentator and a contributor of essays and opinion articles for a variety of publications. He has lived in China for nearly three decades and is fluent in Chinese. He splits his time between Shanghai and Beijing.

Congressman John Moolenaar represents the hardworking residents of Michigan's Second Congressional District.

As Michigan’s senior member of the House Committee on Appropriations, Moolenaar is dedicated to holding the federal government accountable to taxpayers. He strongly believes in fiscal responsibility and has been fighting to make the economy work for Michigan families and seniors. As a member of the committee, he serves on the Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies and the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies.

During his time in Congress, Congressman Moolenaar has focused on improving the lives of the Michiganders. He has introduced legislation to hold the VA accountable to our veterans; to help rural residents get better internet; and to improve the quality-of-care seniors are receiving.
Along with Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), Congressman Moolenaar serves as the Co-Chair for the School Choice Caucus, and as a parent, Moolenaar is proud to stand in support of parental rights and school choice in Michigan and across America.

Moolenaar brings years of leadership experience in the private and public sectors to Congress. He began his career as a chemist, after graduating from Hope College with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry. Moolenaar then worked in business development, and as a school administrator. Moolenaar has a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard University. From 2003-2008, he served in the Michigan House of Representatives, and in the Michigan State Senate from 2011-2015.

Congressman Moolenaar and his wife, Amy, raised their family in Michigan and are blessed with six children and two grandchildren.

A Chinese linguist by training, James Mulvenon is a leading international expert on Chinese cyber, technology transfer, espionage, and military issues. He received his B.A. in China Studies from the University of Michigan, studied Communist Party History at Fudan University in Shanghai, and received his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles, completing a doctoral thesis on the Chinese military’s international business empire that was published in 2000 by Routledge Press as Soldiers of Fortune.

Dr. Mulvenon has spent the last thirty years building teams of Chinese linguist-analysts to support the objectives of a wide range of government, military, and commercial customers. In 2013, he co-authored Chinese Industrial Espionage, which is the first full account of the complete range of China’s efforts to illicitly acquire foreign technology, and contributed multiple chapters to China’s Quest for Foreign Technology: Beyond Espionage, which was published by Routledge in September 2020. Dr. Mulvenon is regularly invited to address senior government, military, and commercial audiences on China topics, and his comments have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and other international media outlets.

John G. Murphy directs the U.S. Chamber’s advocacy relating to international trade and investment policy. Since joining the Chamber in 1999, Murphy has led its successful campaigns to win congressional passage of trade agreements with a dozen nations and its advocacy to shape numerous other trade bills. He regularly represents the Chamber before Congress, the administration, foreign governments, and the World Trade Organization.

From 2001 to 2008, Murphy served as the Chamber’s vice president for Western Hemisphere Affairs and as executive vice president of the Association of American Chambers of Commerce in Latin America (AACCLA). In 2008, he received AACCLA’s Eagle of the Americas award, which is given annually to the individual who has “done the most to advance our mission of increased trade and investment between the United States and Latin America.”

In the 1990s, Murphy worked at the International Republican Institute (IRI), a nonprofit organization dedicated to the promotion of democracy overseas, and at the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), which champions market-oriented economic reform around the world. From 1992 to 1993, he was the first Western lecturer in economics at the National University of Economics in Czechoslovakia.

From 2021-2024, Murphy has been recognized in Washingtonian magazine’s Most Influential List, which highlights people who work tirelessly as advocates to change and improve the federal policies that have large impacts on people, states, businesses, foreign affairs, safety, and security.

Murphy graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and he received his Master of Science degree from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He serves on the board of the United States Council for International Business and the Washington International Trade Foundation. He is fluent in Spanish.

Barry Naughton is the So Kwan Lok Chair of Chinese International Affairs at the School. He is one of the world’s most highly respected economists working on China. He is an authority on the Chinese economy with an emphasis on issues relating to industry, trade, finance and China's transition to a market economy.

Recent research focuses on regional economic growth in China and its relationship to foreign trade and investment. He has addressed economic reform in Chinese cities, trade and trade disputes between China and the United States and economic interactions among China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Naughton has written the authoritative textbook “The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth,” which has now been translated into Chinese. His groundbreaking book “Growing Out of the Plan: Chinese Economic Reform, 1978-1993” received the Ohira Memorial Prize, and he most recently translated, edited and annotated a collection of articles by the well-known Chinese economist Wu Jinglian. Naughton writes a quarterly analysis of the Chinese economy for China Leadership Monitor.

Paul Neureiter joined Amgen in August of 2012 as Executive Director for International Government Affairs (DC) for Amgen, based in Washington, DC. Prior to joining Amgen, he was a senior director at Pfizer where he worked in government affairs covering Asia, Latin America, Middle East and Africa and Western Europe. Prior to Pfizer, Paul directed global government affairs for the ACE Group of insurance companies. Before joining the private sector Paul spent 18 years in the US Federal Government working at the State Department and at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. In those roles he worked on trade and policy issues involving China and other Asian countries. He also held senior positions in the US Embassies in China, Mexico and Papua New Guinea.

Sarah O’Hare O’Neal is Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, International Trade Law and Policy at Microsoft. She is an experienced international trade lawyer, having served in both private practice and inhouse roles across a range of areas, including export and import controls, supply chain and digital security, customs, WTO and free trade agreements and intellectual property trade remedies. She’s led the International Trade Legal teams for two of the Big Five tech companies, joining Microsoft to lead its International Trade Legal team in November 2019. Prior to her role with Microsoft, Sarah spent seven years building out and leading Amazon’s International Trade Legal team. Her inhouse practice has included collaborating with key trade regulators and intergovernmental bodies on shared objectives, and standing up complex and innovative trade compliance solutions, in support of businesses and initiatives across the globe. Sarah joined Amazon from White & Case’s international trade practice in Washington D.C. where she handled a broad spectrum of international trade legal matters for multinational corporate and foreign sovereign clients. Prior to her legal career, Sarah served as a Surface Warfare Officer in the U.S. Navy for four years leading sailor divisions deployed to the Persian Gulf and East Asia.

Since 2008, he has been a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine, where he covers foreign affairs and politics. His first book, “Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014), based on eight years of living in Beijing, won the National Book Award. From 2008 to 2013, he was The New Yorker’s China correspondent. His subjects included the reconstruction of a train crash that exposed corruption; a group of Chinese tourists on their first trip to Europe; and a barber who set out to beat the house in Macau. For four years, he also wrote the Letter from China blog for newyorker.com.

Osnos has written from elsewhere in East Asia; his article, “The Fallout,” on the effects of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, won a 2012 Overseas Press Club Award. Previously, he worked as Beijing bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune, where he was part of a team that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. Before his assignment to China, he worked in the Middle East, reporting mostly from Iraq. He has also contributed to “This American Life” and been a correspondent for “Frontline/World.” He is the recipient of the Osborn Elliott Prize and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists. His work is anthologized in “The Best American Writing on Nature and Science 2010,” “The Best Spiritual Writing 2012” and “Chinese Characters: Profiles of Fast-Changing Lives in a Fast-Changing Land.” In 2013, Osnos delivered the Joe Alex Morris Jr. Memorial Lecture at the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University. He is a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Based in Washington since 2013, Osnos writes about money in politics, and the formation of American foreign policy. His article, “Chemical Valley,” examined the role of lobbying and campaign contributions behind a chemical leak in West Virginia. His profile subjects include Vice President Joe Biden, legal scholar Lawrence Lessig and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. Osnos is a frequent guest on television and radio, including “Charlie Rose”, “Fareed Zakaria GPS”, National Public Radio and “PBS NewsHour.”

Born in London, he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 1998, with a concentration in government.

Andrew Polk is the co-founder and head of economic research at Trivium China, a Beijing-based strategic advisory firm. Before founding Trivium, Polk was China director at Medley Global Advisors, where he advised asset managers and hedge funds on developments in China's economy and financial markets. Previously, Mr. Polk was the resident China economist at The Conference Board's China Center for Economics and Business, where he conducted economic analysis on the Chinese economy for corporate clients. Polk is the co-author of The Long, Soft Fall in Chinese Growth (The Conference Board, 2015) and maintains a deep network of professional contacts in the official, academic, and business communities in China—built over a decade of living in China and working on China issues. Other research positions he has held include stints at the Institute of International Finance and the U.S. Department of Treasury. He holds an M.A. in economics and international relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Drew Quinn is Executive Director for International Trade, Policy and Advocacy at GE HealthCare, based in Washington DC. Drew works closely with GE Healthcare’s leadership, business segments, and regional teams on policies that affect the company’s ability to maximize its trade, investment and supply chain activities to bring healthcare products to patients around the world.

Drew joined GE in 2018 after a career in the U.S. government. He served at the White House National Economic Council (NEC) and National Security Council (NSC) in a number of capacities related to trade and Asia, and as trade negotiator at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), where he worked on global steel negotiations, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, and the US-Korea (KORUS) Free Trade Agreement, among other issues. Prior to joining USTR, he served as a State Department diplomat, including in Japan, Korea, Thailand, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. He also worked in Congress covering trade and foreign policy issues for former Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia.

Sree is currently the Chief Innovation Officer at the nonprofit NobleReach Foundation, advising that organization on technology, talent, and investment initiatives to support US national and economic security and serves as a non-resident Senior Technical Expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies within their Economic Security and Technology Department. Previously, he served as senior advisor to US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo from early 2021 to 2024, focusing on emerging technology, supply chain resiliency, and industrial policy.

Sree’s achievements at Commerce including developing and facilitating the CHIPS and Science Act and other Biden administration initiatives on semiconductors, supply chains, and critical technologies. He also developed Commerce’s CHIPS strategy and investment thesis to guide implementation of the CHIPS program and helped recruit key leaders to build the CHIPS program office at Commerce. He served as Commerce’s key technology and industrial policy interlocutor with the private sector, national security community, and Congressional leadership and staff.

He continues to advise a wide range of policy and industry leaders on ways to promote, protect, and scale up emerging technologies and industrial investments in the United States.

Sree was formerly a Partner in McKinsey & Company’s Washington DC office and at the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), the non-profit business and economics research arm of McKinsey. In this role he was responsible for shaping MGI’s and McKinsey’s research on trends in global competition, technology disruption, and the forces impacting multinational firms. For more than a decade Sree has researched and written extensively about American manufacturing and supply chains, the impact of deindustrialization on economic and national security, and opportunities to revitalize industrial investment in established and emerging sectors.

Prior to joining McKinsey in 2008, Sree spent nearly a decade in the US aerospace and telecom sectors with roles in engineering and regulatory affairs. He holds three patents, an MBA, and Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in computer engineering and telecommunications.

Dr. Ely Ratner is Principal at The Marathon Initiative. Dr. Ratner previously served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs. Prior to this role, he served as the Director, DoD China Task Force and as a Senior Advisor to China to the Secretary of Defense. Before arriving at the Department of Defense, Dr. Ratner was the Executive Vice President and Director of Studies at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), where he was a member of the executive team and responsible for managing the Center’s research agenda and staff.

Dr. Ratner served from 2015 to 2017 as the Deputy National Security advisor to Vice President Joe Biden, and from 2011 to 2012 in the office of Chinese and Mongolian affairs at the State Department. He also previously worked in the U.S. Senate as a Professional Staff Member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and in the office of Senator Joe Biden. Outside of government, Dr. Ratner has worked as a Senior Fellow for China Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, a Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program at CNAS, and as an Associate Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation.

Dr. Ratner received his B.A. from Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Meg Rithmire is the F. Warren MacFarlan associate professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit. Professor Rithmire holds a PhD in Government from Harvard University, and her primary expertise is in the comparative political economy of development with a focus on China and Asia. Her first book, Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism (Cambridge University Press, 2015), examines the role of land politics, urban governments, and local property rights regimes in the Chinese economic reforms. A new book, forthcoming with Oxford University Press, investigates the relationship between capital and the state and globalization in Asia, comparing China, Malaysia, and Indonesia from the early 1980s to the present. The book, Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia, examines how governments attempt to discipline business and, second, how business adapts to different methods of state control. Her work also focuses on China's role in the world, including Chinese outward investment and lending practices and economic relations between China and other countries, especially the United States.

Daniel H. Rosen is the co-founder of Rhodium Group and leads the firm’s work on China. Mr. Rosen has worked professionally on China’s domestic economy and global commercial relations since 1992. He is widely recognized for his research on US-China relations and Asian commercial dynamics. He is affiliated with numerous think tanks focused on international economics and is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University.

From 2000-2001, Mr. Rosen was Senior Adviser for International Economic Policy at the White House National Economic Council and National Security Council. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Committee on US-China Relations.

A native of New York City, Daniel graduated with distinction from the graduate School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University (MSFS) and with honors in Asian Studies and Economics from the University of Texas, Austin (BA).

Dr. Michelle Rozo is currently serving as Vice Chair of the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology, a U.S. legislative branch advisory entity charged with conducting a thorough review of how advancements in emerging biotechnology and related technologies will shape current and future activities of the Department of Defense. Dr. Rozo is also Vice President of Technical Capabilities at In-Q-Tel, a non-profit strategic investor that accelerates the development and delivery of cutting-edge technologies to enhance the national security of the United States. From 2021 to 2022 she was Director of Technology and National Security at the U.S. National Security Council, where she advised the President and National Security Advisor on biotechnology and national security policy, and was also previously the Principal Director for Biotechnology within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research & Engineering at the Department of Defense.

Dr. Rozo is a molecular biologist by training and studied severe infectious diseases as a staff scientist with the Naval Medical Research Center in Fort Detrick, Maryland. She holds a Ph.D. in Biology from the Cell, Molecular, Developmental Biology and Biophysics Program at the Johns Hopkins University and a B.A. in Biology from Northwestern University.

HE the Hon Dr Kevin Rudd AC is Australia’s Ambassador to the United States of America, taking up his posting in Washington in March 2023.

Ambassador Rudd served as Australia’s twenty-sixth Prime Minister from 2007 to 2010, then as Minister for Foreign Affairs, before a second term as Prime Minister in 2013. He was Member for Griffith in the Australian Parliament from 1998 to 2013.

Since leaving government, Ambassador Rudd has resided in the United States where he is recognised as a leading analyst of China. In 2015, he became inaugural President of the Asia Society Policy Institute in New York. In 2020, he was appointed President and CEO of the Asia Society globally and, in 2022, he founded the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis.In 2019, Ambassador Rudd was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia for eminent service to Indigenous reconciliation, innovative economic initiatives, and major policy reform, and through senior advisory roles with international organisations. Ambassador Rudd holds honorary positions at the Atlantic Council and Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC; the Asia Society, Schwartzman Scholars and Bloomberg New Economy Forum in New York; the Paulson Institute in Chicago; the Paris School of International Affairs at Sciences Po in Paris, France; the Chancellor Helmut Schmidt Foundation in Hamburg, Germany; and Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House in Canberra. He is founder and co-chair of an Australian charity, the National Apology Foundation, and a trustee of the Cathedral of St John the Divine in New York City.

Ambassador Rudd started his diplomatic career in 1981 with postings to Beijing and Stockholm. In 1988, he was appointed Chief of Staff to the Hon Wayne Goss and served him as Premier of Queensland. He was Director-General of the Cabinet Office in Queensland from 1991 to 1995, and Senior China Consultant for KPMG from 1996 to 1998.

Ambassador Rudd graduated with Honours in Asian Studies from the Australian National University and received his PhD from Oxford University in 2022. He also studied at National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei.

Ambassador Rudd is accompanied on his posting by his wife, Thérèse Rein.

Derek Scissors is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he focuses on the Chinese and Indian economies and on US economic relations with Asia. He is concurrently serving on the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission and as the chief economist of the China Beige Book.

Dr. Scissors is the author of the China Global Investment Tracker. Since 2008, in a series of papers, he has been chronicling the end of pro-market reforms in China and the resulting slide toward economic stagnation. He has also written multiple papers on the best course for Indian economic development.

Before joining AEI, Dr. Scissors was a senior research fellow in the Asian Studies Center at the Heritage Foundation and an adjunct professor of economics at George Washington University. He has worked for London-based Intelligence Research Ltd., taught economics at Lingnan University in Hong Kong, and served as an action officer in international economics and energy for the US Department of Defense.

Dr. Scissors has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan, a master’s degree from the University of Chicago, and a doctorate from Stanford University.

Dr. Kelly Seagraves is the Vice President for National Security and International Affairs at BIO. Prior to joining BIO, Dr. Seagraves was the Senior Advisor for Biotechnology Policy in the U.S. Department of State’s Office of the Special Envoy for Critical and Emerging Technology, where she led the coordination of biotechnology policy across the State Department. She was also a secretariat member of the National Bioeconomy Board. In these roles, her priority was promoting the responsible development and use of emerging biotechnologies, by facilitating international cooperation that supports the U.S. and global bioeconomies and protecting against misuse of technologies where necessary.

Prior to joining the Special Envoy’s Office, Dr. Seagraves was a global emerging technologies analyst, also at the U.S. Department of State, where her portfolio included advanced computing, artificial intelligence, quantum information sciences, and biotechnologies. Dr. Seagraves transitioned to the Department of State after spending a decade as an academic neuroscientist. Her laboratory research focused on how the brain controls social interactions. Most recently, she was a CV Starr Fellow at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, and prior to that, she received her B.A. in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and her PhD in Zoology from the University of Cambridge.

With nearly two decades of experience in national security and U.S.-China relations, Craig Singleton is an expert in geopolitical strategy and East Asian affairs. A former U.S. diplomat, he worked on critical national security issues related to China, North Korea, and the Indo-Pacific, with a particular emphasis on emerging technologies like AI and China’s military-civil fusion strategy.

Currently serving as senior director for China and senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), Craig is a prolific author and strategist. He regularly publishes influential research on China’s military expansion, influence operations, and technological threats, often featured in leading outlets like The New York Times, Foreign Policy, and The Wall Street Journal. He also works closely with U.S. policymakers, testifying before Congress on national security issues, including TikTok’s security risks, Chinese economic warfare, and cyber threats to U.S. infrastructure.

Craig holds a Master of International Policy degree from the Bush School at Texas A&M University and a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of Florida. He is also a lecturer at Stanford University, where he teaches courses on Chinese grand strategy.

Sarah V. Stewart is the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of Silverado Policy Accelerator. Ms. Stewart has nearly two decades of experience as an international trade lawyer, trade policy expert, and trade negotiator. In her current role, Ms. Stewart works to implement Silverado's mission in areas including geopolitics, national security, international trade, critical supply chains, and energy and environment. Ms. Stewart's views are featured in national publications such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Politico, and she is a regular speaker at domestic and international conferences.

Immediately prior to joining Silverado, Ms. Stewart led the public policy efforts at Amazon on U.S. trade policy and export controls matters. From 2013 to 2018, Ms. Stewart worked for the Office of the United States Trade Representative, with her most recent position being the Deputy Assistant USTR for Environment and Natural Resources. During her time at USTR, Ms. Stewart was the lead environment chapter negotiator for the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations with the European Union. Prior to joining USTR, Ms. Stewart served in different legal and policy roles at the Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society International, including spearheading a first-ever international legal group. Ms. Stewart began her career at the Law Offices of Stewart and Stewart, where she worked for over five years on behalf of U.S. manufacturing companies and workers.

Ms. Stewart serves on the Board of Directors for the Washington International Trade Foundation (WITF), as a policy advisor for the Center for Climate and Trade, is a fellow at the National Security Institute, and is on the advisory board of American University's Washington College of Law Program on Environmental and Energy Law.

Travis Tanner is a Senior Managing Director at Ankura and President of GreenPoint Group. Drawing on more than 25 years of experience, Travis advises corporate and non-profit clients to develop and expand business opportunities in the China market and navigate policy and regulatory changes. Travis also serves as the Vice Chair of the Board of Governors for the American Chamber of Commerce in China (AmCham China).

Travis has over two decades of experience building bridges between Chinese and U.S. corporate, government, academic, and non-profit communities.

Previously, Travis served as president of the U.S.-China Strong Foundation, an offshoot of the Obama administration’s 100,000 Strong Initiative, a public-private partnership designed to equip the future generation of leaders with the knowledge and skills needed to engage productively with China. Travis established and directed the foundation’s operations in China and drove engagement with key stakeholders and partners including Chinese and U.S. government officials, business leaders, academic institutions, media outlets, philanthropists, and students.

Travis worked for over a dozen years in the think tank industry conducting research projects examining a range of policy issues in the U.S.-China relationship, including China’s intellectual property, technology standards, and innovation policy, China’s military development, and U.S.-China people-to-people exchange. He previously served as senior project director at The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) and director of NBR’s Kenneth B. and Anne H.H. Pyle Center for Northeast Asian Studies. He was deputy director and assistant director of the Chinese Studies Program at the Center for the National Interest (formerly the Nixon Center) in Washington, DC. He also worked as a research assistant at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

Travis is the author, contributing author, or coeditor of numerous publications on the strategic, economic, and political dimensions of the U.S.-China relationship, including coeditor of U.S.-China Relations in Strategic Domains (Routledge, 2020) as well as five volumes of NBR’s Strategic Asia series. He has also been featured in major media outlets in the U.S. and China.

Travis is the recipient of the Doak A. Barnett and Hassenfeld Fellowships and received a master’s degree in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University – SAIS and the Hopkins-Nanjing Center and bachelor’s degree in Chinese language and literature from the University of Utah. He is senior advisor to NBR, Tsinghua University Schwarzman College industry mentor, member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and serves as Co-Chair of the AmCham China Policy Committee.

Chris Thomas works with partners and clients across Silicon Valley, China, Japan, Taiwan, and Europe at the intersection of semiconductors, strategy, finance, and government policy.

Chris is the founder of Integrated Insights, an advisory firm serving the Boards, Chairpersons and CEOs of global companies. He serves as Board Advisor for the Atlantic Council and the TMRW Foundation, and as delegation lead for the US-China Track II Dialogues on the Digital Economy.

Chris spent ten years at McKinsey & Company, where he was Managing Partner for both the Asia Semiconductor Practice and the Digital Strategy service line. McKinsey ranked Chris in the top 10% of partners in 3 of his last 4 years at the Firm.

Prior to McKinsey, Chris spent a decade at Intel Corporation. He was the President of Intel China, the largest semiconductor business in China. Chris also held multiple executive roles at Intel’s Silicon Valley headquarters.

Chris began his career as a private equity investor at The Blackstone Group in New York City.

In 2021, the State Council of the People’s Republic of China recognized Chris as a national-level foreign expert in science and technology. Other previous roles include non-resident Senior Fellow in Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies at the Brookings Institution; Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University; and Board Director and Chair of the Audit Committee at Velodyne, the inventor of LiDAR.

Chris received an MBA from Stanford Business School, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar; a Master of Arts in Political Science from Stanford University; and a Bachelor of Science in Economics, summa cum laude, from the Wharton School.

Liza Tobin is Managing Director at Garnaut Global, a geopolitical risk advisory firm, and a senior fellow at the Jamestown Foundation. Previous to joining Garnaut Global, she was part of the founding team at the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP), a nonprofit founded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, where she served as Senior Director for Economy from 2021 to 2025. Prior to SCSP, Ms. Tobin served as China Director at the National Security Council during the Trump and Biden administrations, contributing to both presidents’ China strategies. Her government service also includes roles as a senior advisor at the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and an analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency. Drawing on extensive experience in China—including work and study in Nanjing, Xiamen, and Nanning—Ms. Tobin bridges
policy, academic, and private sector perspectives. She holds an M.A. in international relations from Johns Hopkins SAIS with concentrations in China studies and international economics, completed graduate work at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, and earned her B.A. in China studies and biblical studies from Gordon College. Her television and podcast appearances include Bloomberg Technology, Fox Business, NBC, In the Room with Peter Bergen, Behind the Markets, and The President’s Inbox. Her writings appear in Foreign Policy, Texas National Security Review, War on the Rocks, Naval War College Review, Asia Unbound, and Lawfare.

Matt Turpin is a senior advisor at Palantir Technologies. He is also visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution specializing in US policy toward the People’s Republic of China, economic statecraft, and technology innovation.

From 2018 to 2019, Turpin served as the US National Security Council’s Director for China and the Senior Advisor on China to the Secretary of Commerce. In those roles, he was responsible for managing the interagency effort to develop and implement US government policies on the People’s Republic of China.

Before entering the White House, Turpin served over 22 years in the US Army in a variety of combat units in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East and as an assistant professor of history at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He retired from the Army in 2017.

From 2013 to 2017, he served as an advisor on the People’s Republic of China to the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon and was assigned to assist the Deputy Secretary of Defense with the Defense Innovation Initiative, a program to examine the implications of great power competition on the Department of Defense and the role of innovation in US defense policy.

From 2010 to 2013, Turpin was the Chief of Crisis Planning at the United States Pacific Command in Honolulu. There he assisted in the planning and implementation of policies and operations for America’s largest Combatant Command.

Turpin has an MA in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a BS from the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Matt Turpin joined Spirit of America’s Advisory Board in 2020.

Stephen P. Vaughn is a Partner in the International Trade Team of King & Spalding who works primarily on international trade litigation and policy matters. In April 2019, Stephen completed more than two years of service as the General Counsel for the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR). In that position, he managed a team of government attorneys representing U.S. interests in both trade negotiations and trade litigation. During two months in early 2017, Stephen also served as the acting U.S. Trade Representative. He is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost authorities on current U.S. trade policy, as well as one of the most talented U.S. trade remedy litigators.

Stephen is recognized as a leading practitioner in Trade Remedies and Trade Policy by Legal 500 U.S., Chambers USA, and Chambers Global. He has been named a 2024 Client Service All-Star by BTI Consulting.

Jeremie O. Waterman is president of the China Center and vice president for Greater China at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.  Waterman is responsible for developing and executing Chamber policy initiatives in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mongolia as well as steering the Chamber’s policy work in the Asia-Pacific region.

In carrying out the Chamber’s Greater China agenda, Waterman directs its trade and investment policy advocacy and initiatives in the areas of investment, innovation, intellectual property rights, financial services, agriculture, health care, energy and environment, and corporate governance and social responsibility.

Waterman has pioneered a number of Chamber business initiatives focused on China, such as the U.S.-China CEO Dialogue and the newly created China Center. He is frequently quoted in the media on a broad range of China issues relating to international business and trade policy and is a periodic guest on news programs.

Before joining the Chamber, Waterman worked for five years at the US-China Business Council as director for government affairs. He also served at the Office of the United States Trade Representative in the offices of Congressional Affairs and Africa.

Waterman received a master’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Boston and is a graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles. He and his wife have two children.

Lingling Wei is the chief China correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and co-author of “Superpower Showdown.” She covers China's political economy, focusing on the intersection of business and politics. Born and raised in China, she has a M.A. in journalism from N.Y.U., got her start covering U.S. real estate, and has won many awards for her China coverage. In 2021, she's among a team of reporters and editors whose work was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

Kevin Wolf has more than 25 years’ experience providing advice and counseling regarding the laws, regulations, policies, practices and politics pertaining to export controls, sanctions, national security reviews of foreign direct investments and other international trade issues.

Mr. Wolf has deep experience that includes being a Special Compliance Officer, civil and criminal defense, internal investigations, due diligence audits and compliance program enhancements.

He previously served as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS).

Logan Wright is a Partner at Rhodium Group and leads the firm’s China Markets Research work.

Logan is also an Adjunct Fellow of the Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Previously, Logan was head of China research for Medley Global Advisors and a China analyst with Stone & McCarthy Research Associates, both in Beijing.

Logan’s research focuses on China’s financial system and credit conditions in shaping outcomes within China’s economy, as well as the policies of China’s central bank. Logan and the China Markets Research team monitor China’s real economic conditions, financial market developments, and future policy directions to gauge the influence of China’s economy on global financial markets. He is also the author of two reports on China’s financial system and the country’s longer-term economic trajectory, Credit and Credibility (2018) and The China Economic Risk Matrix (2020).

Logan holds a Ph.D. from the George Washington University, where his dissertation concerned the political factors shaping the reform of China’s exchange rate regime. He graduated with a Master’s degree in Security Studies and a Bachelor’s degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University. He is based in Washington, DC, after living and working in Beijing and Hong Kong for over two decades.

Joerg Wuttke is a Partner at DGA-Albright Stonebridge Group, a founding member of DGA Group, and is based in Washington, D.C. He is a renowned business leader and expert on the Europe-China trade and investment corridor.

Mr. Wuttke strengthens the firm’s ability to assist clients in navigating a complicated global operating environment and developing their business strategies for moments of elevated opportunity and risk.

Prior to joining the firm in mid-2024, Mr. Wuttke served as the Chief Representative of BASF in China for 27 years, where he was responsible for guiding the company’s investment strategies for China, negotiating large projects and leading the company’s government relations. Before BASF, Mr. Wuttke worked with ABB, a multinational power and automation technologies company, for 11 years on the development and financing of large projects in China, Southeast Asia, Africa and Russia.

During his time in China, Mr. Wuttke has served on several boards and as a member of many professional associations, including as President of the EU Chamber of Commerce three times, most recently between 2019 and 2023. In June 2023, he joined the Robert Bosch Internationale Beteiligungen AG Verwaltungsrat (Supervisory Board). Since its founding in 2013, he has also been a member of the Mercator Institute for China Studies, the Advisory Board of Germany’s foremost think tank on China.

Among other professional distinctions, Mr. Wuttke has been awarded the Order of Leopold II by King Albert II of Belgium in 2014, Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur by President Emmanuel Macron of France, the Order of Italian Star from President Sergio Mattarella of Italy and the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Verdienstorden) from President Frank-Walter Steinmeier of Germany.

Since joining the Senate in 2017, Todd Young has developed a reputation as a bipartisan problem solver. On issues like outcompeting the Chinese Communist Party, securing the border, growing the economy, expanding affordable housing options for all Hoosiers, supporting Indiana’s veterans, and harnessing the potential of artificial intelligence, Todd has offered conservative solutions to many of the biggest issues facing Hoosier families.

In 2022, the CHIPS and Science Act, his landmark legislation to outcompete China and create more high tech jobs in the Heartland, became law. Vital to America’s economic and national security, the law is bringing semiconductor production back to the United States to shore up our supply chain and ensure America is never dependent on China for critical chips.

Todd’s path to the Senate went through the United States Marine Corps. After graduating high school, Todd attended the United States Naval Academy, where he played varsity soccer and was elected a class officer. Todd graduated with honors in 1995 and accepted a commission in the U.S. Marine Corps. After training as a rifle platoon commander, Todd served as an intelligence officer, spending time on the U.S. southern border.

Later, while leading a Marines recruiting effort in Chicago and northwest Indiana, Todd put himself through night school at the University of Chicago, where he earned his MBA with a concentration in economics.

After serving a decade in the military, in 2000 Todd was honorably discharged as a Captain. He then spent a year in England, where he wrote a thesis on the economic history of Midwestern agriculture and earned an MA from the School of Advanced Study in London. Upon returning to the United States, he accepted a position at the Heritage Foundation and later worked as a legislative assistant in the U.S. Senate.

In 2003, Todd returned home to Indiana. He worked for several years as a management consultant, advising public and private organizations on how they could implement business practices to provide their constituents and customers with more value, often by investing fewer resources.

Soon after returning to Indiana, Todd met his future wife, Jenny, while earning his JD from Indiana University. They married in 2005, and then worked together at a small law firm in Paoli, Indiana, that was started by Jenny’s great-grandfather in 1933.

In 2010, Todd ran his first campaign for Congress, defeating a strong Democrat incumbent to represent Indiana’s 9th Congressional District. He served three terms in the House before running for Senate in 2016.

Todd and Jenny and their four children currently reside in Johnson County.

He serves on the U.S. Senate Committees on Finance; Commerce, Science & Transportation; Small Business and Entrepreneurship; and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Previously, in the House, he served on the House Armed Services Committee, the House Budget Committee, and the House Ways and Means Committee.

William Zarit is Senior Counselor at The Cohen Group, where he advises western multinationals working in the Chinese commercial market. Currently Chairman Emeritus of the American Chamber of Commerce in China, he served as Board Chairman from 2017-2018.

Until May 2014, Mr. Zarit was Minister for Commercial Affairs at the US Embassy in Beijing, overseeing the US Department of Commerce’s trade promotion and trade policy activities in its operations in Beijing, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Shenyang. He retired with the rank of Career Minister.

Prior to his posting to Beijing, Mr. Zarit was Deputy Assistant Secretary, International Operations, for the US Commercial Service, overseeing Commercial Sections in US Embassies and Consulates worldwide. He previously served as US Commercial Service’s Regional Director for East Asia/Pacific, Senior Commercial Officer at the US Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Deputy Senior Commercial Officer at the US Embassy in Beijing, and Deputy Senior Commercial Officer at the American Institute in Taiwan.

Before joining the US Commercial Service, Mr. Zarit was Economic and Commercial Program Officer for the New York-based National Committee on US-China Relations. Prior to that, he served as Marketing Manager/China for the California-based telecommunications firm Pacific Telesis International, preceded by his work as Project Manager for the high-tech marketing firm China Business Associates. Both positions were based in Beijing. Mr. Zarit also served as Mandarin Chinese Interpreter for the US State Department Language Services.

He earned an MBA with Honors from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA with Honors in Political Science from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.

Eric Zheng is President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai. With nearly 3,000 members, AmCham Shanghai is the largest American chamber of commerce in Asia Pacific. He also serves as Chairman of Heng An Standard Life, a Sino-UK joint venture life insurance company in China. Eric has been active in a number of non-profit and charity organizations. He is a member of The Committee of 100 and currently serves as Chair of Committee of 100 Greater China Region.