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 Fox, Bloomberg, and CNN 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.

In the White House from December 2001- January 2009, Mr. Allen served in a variety of national security policy and legislative roles. At the National Security Council (NSC), he served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counter-proliferation Strategy from June 2007 to January 2009 under National Security Advisor Steve Hadley. As the Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Legislative Affairs, Mr. Allen served as the NSC’s chief liaison with the national security committees of Congress (March 2005 to June 2007). From December 2001 to February 2005, Mr. Allen worked in the legislative affairs office of the White House’s Homeland Security Council. At the beginning of the Bush Administration, Mr. Allen worked in the Bureau of Legislative Affairs at the Department of State.

From 2011-2013, Mr. Allen served as the Majority Staff Director of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI). The HPSCI oversaw, authorized, and funded all intelligence programs across the eighteen elements of the intelligence community and led the House of Representatives’ consideration of cyber security legislation.

Allen is a Visiting Fellow and member of the National Leadership Council at the Ronald Reagan Institute, and a founder and board member of the Reagan Institute Strategy Group. He is also a Member of The Council on Foreign Relations.

Mr. Allen received his L.L.M. with distinction in International Law from the Georgetown University Law Center, his J.D. from the University of Alabama (cum laude), and his B.A. from Vanderbilt University. In addition to Blinking Red: Crisis and Compromise in American Intelligence After 9/11 (Potomac Books, 2013), Mr. Allen has also authored numerous articles including in The Wall Street Journal and Foreign Policy.

Jonathan Anderson is the former Global Emerging Market Economist at UBS Investment Bank, where he worked for nearly a decade. Jonathan has also worked at Goldman Sachs as well as the International Monetary Fund, where he served as Resident Representative in both China and Russia. He received his MA and PhD candidacy in economics at Harvard University, and speaks fluent Russian and Mandarin Chinese.

As founder and president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), Robert D. Atkinson leads a prolific team of policy analysts and fellows that is successfully shaping the debate and setting the agenda on a host of critical issues at the intersection of technological innovation and public policy.

He is an internationally recognized scholar and a widely-published author whom The New Republic has named one of the “three most important thinkers about innovation,” Washingtonian Magazine has called a “tech titan,” and Government Technology Magazine has judged to be one of the 25 top “doers, dreamers and drivers of information technology.”

A sought-after speaker and valued adviser to policymakers around the world, Atkinson’s books include Innovation Economics: The Race for Global Advantage (Yale, 2012), SupplySide Follies: Why Conservative Economics Fails, Liberal Economics Falters, and Innovation Economics is the Answer (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), and The Past And Future Of America’s Economy: Long Waves Of Innovation That Power Cycles Of Growth (Edward Elgar, 2005). He also has conducted groundbreaking research projects and authored hundreds of articles and reports on technology and innovation-related topics ranging from tax policy to advanced manufacturing, productivity, and global competitiveness.

President Clinton appointed Atkinson to the Commission on Workers, Communities, and Economic Change in the New Economy; the Bush administration appointed him chair of the congressionally created National Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing Commission; and the Obama administration appointed him to the National Innovation and Competitiveness Strategy Advisory Board. He also served as co-chair of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s China-U.S. Innovation Policy Experts Group. He is currently a member of the U.S. State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy and the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Atkinson is a member of the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age and serves on the boards or advisory councils of the Internet Education Foundation, the NetChoice Coalition, the University of Oregon’s Institute for Policy Research and Innovation, and the State Science and Technology Institute. Additionally, Atkinson is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Electronic Government and the Journal of Internet Policy; a member of the Global Innovation Forum Brain Trust; a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution; a fellow at the Columbia University Institute of Tele-Information; and a fellow of Glocom, a Tokyo-based research institute.

Atkinson was previously vice president of the Progressive Policy Institute, where he directed the Technology & New Economy Project. He wrote numerous research reports on technology and innovation policy, covering issues such as broadband telecommunications, e-commerce, e-government, privacy, copyright, R&D tax policy, offshoring, and innovation economics.

Dr. Kurt M. Campbell is the Chairman and Co-Founder of The Asia Group. Prior to re-joining TAG, Kurt most recently served as the 22nd Deputy Secretary of The United States Department of State, where he played a key role in strengthening America’s diplomatic standing and in modernizing the Department to meet enduring global challenges. Before assuming his role at the State Department, Kurt served as the inaugural Indo-Pacific Coordinator at the National Security Council and Deputy Assistant to the President at the White House from 2021 to 2024.

Kurt operates at the intersection of geopolitics and commerce and has devoted his career to advancing America’s interests in the Indo-Pacific. He is also the author of Already Tomorrow, a recurring newsletter sharing his insights on the evolving world order and how businesses should navigate it. Subscribe here.

Kurt is a serial entrepreneur, having started numerous businesses, launched and led the leading national security think tank in Washington, DC, and spearheaded globally significant international initiatives. Kurt advises C-suite executives on how to navigate opportunities related to geopolitical developments and economic trends across Asia and the world. His career spans nearly four decades across the private sector, academia, military service, journalism, and government.

In the role as President Biden’s principal Indo-Pacific policy advisor, he advanced consequential foreign policy strategies across the Indo-Pacific region – from strengthening alliances and traditional partnerships throughout the region, developing economic statecraft strategies to help align US business opportunities with US foreign policy interests, managing the US-China relationship and building an enduring strategic foundation for the US-India relationship. Kurt was also a driving force behind the trilateral security partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States (AUKUS), which strengthened defense cooperation, secured supply chains, and advanced cutting-edge technology partnerships and the key advancements in US, Japan and Korea trilateral relations.

Prior to his most recent public service, Kurt was Chairman and Co-founder of The Asia Group. From 2009 to 2013, Kurt served as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, where he is widely credited as the key architect of the “Pivot to Asia.” Kurt began his career as an officer in the U.S. Navy Reserves, serving on surface ships, at the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and in the Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Advisory Unit. He was also an Associate Professor of Public Policy and International Relations at Harvard’s John F Kennedy School of Government.

Kurt has been recognized for his service with the award of the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Service Award – the nation’s highest diplomatic honor. Campbell was recognized by Queen Elizabeth in her list of honors in 2014 as an Honorary Officer of the Order of Australia and as an Honorary Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his support of American relations with Australia and New Zealand respectively. He has also received top national honors from a number of key Asian and European allies.

Liz joined BIS from Microsoft, where she served as Senior Corporate Counsel for Global Trade. In that capacity, she was responsible for monitoring export controls, sanctions, and other international trade and security policy issues. She also oversaw Microsoft’s the Risk Intelligence Group, which is responsible for trade-related investigations and forensics.

Liz also brings more than a decade of public service and national security experience at the Department of Justice, including five years as Deputy Chief for Export Controls and Sanctions in the National Security Division. In this role, she supervised all criminal cases involving export control and sanctions violations around the country. During her service at DOJ, she prosecuted national security cases, including espionage, economic espionage, mishandling of classified information, sanctions, cyber, and export control offenses. She has also spent time in private practice at an international law firm.

She holds a BS in Commerce from the University of Virginia and a JD from New York University School of Law.

Eric Chewning is executive vice president of maritime systems and corporate strategy. His responsibilities include working alongside the division presidents in leading the company’s strategy for future maritime capabilities and fleet architecture, development of hybrid manned-unmanned teaming strategies; identifying outsourcing partners to accelerate throughput; driving business pursuits for new maritime capabilities; managing enterprise strategic partnerships; managing HII’s Dark Sea Labs Advanced Technology Group, and overseeing enterprise strategy and corporate development.

In addition, he serves as a director on H&B Defence Board of Directors, the HII-Babcock International joint venture in Australia.

He has 25 years of experience across government and industry working issues at the intersection of national security, technology, and business.

Prior to joining HII, he co-led McKinsey & Company’s Aerospace & Defense practice in the Americas.

While in government, Chewning was the chief of staff to the U.S. Secretary of Defense. In this role he led the secretary’s executive team, working across the military services, Joint Staff, combatant commanders, and senior civilian political appointees. He also provided counsel and advice to the secretary on all matters concerning the department.

Prior to serving as the chief of staff, Chewning was the deputy assistant secretary of defense for industrial policy. In this capacity, he was the principal advisor for analyzing the capabilities, policies and overall health of America’s defense industrial base.

A former U.S. Army military intelligence officer, he is a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Prior to his military service, Chewning was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley & Co. where he focused on corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions in the global industrials sector.

Chewning received a MBA from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia where he was recognized as a Shermet Scholar. He also earned a Master of Arts degree in international relations and a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from the University of Chicago. He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and appointed to the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia by Governor Glenn Youngkin.

Martin Chorzempa, Dennis Weatherstone Senior Fellow since 2026, has been affiliated with the Peterson Institute for International Economics since 2017. As a Fulbright Scholar in Germany and a Luce Scholar at Peking University's China Center for Economic Research, he worked on comparative financial regulation, China's financial reforms, and the rise of innovative financial technology in China. He also worked for the China Finance 40 Forum in Beijing, a leading independent think tank. In 2017, he graduated from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government with a masters in public administration in international development.

Chorzempa's research focuses on financial technology and digital currency, as well as technology and national security issues like export controls and foreign investment screening. He is author of The Cashless Revolution: China's Reinvention of Money (PublicAffairs, October 2022), which the Financial Times named one of the best economics books of 2022. He is regularly quoted by major media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, MIT Technology Review, and Foreign Affairs.

Founder and Managing Partner of D’Andrea & Partners Legal Counsel, and Founder of DP Group. Carlo Diego D’Andrea has played a pivotal role in fostering business relationships between Europe, China, and other developing countries.

Graduated in Law at the University of Teramo (Italy), he then subsequently obtained a Masters’ degree in Corporate Advisor at LUISS University in Rome, including an enriching Erasmus Scholarship program at the Universitat de Barcelona. and a Diploma in Chinese Studies at Nanjing Normal University and is a member of the Italian Bar Association and adjunct professor of international organization at LUISS University.

Mr. D’Andrea arrived in China in 2005 and is fluent in Italian (mother tongue), English, Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. During his professional career, D’Andrea served as the Managing Partner of a leading European law firm in China from September 2009 to September 2013. In this role, he played a vital part in assisting European companies in navigating the complexities of the Chinese legal system. He facilitated business operations, intellectual property protection, and the establishment of numerous European companies in China as an Italian lawyer based in China.

He mainly deals with cross-border mergers and acquisitions, assistance in ODI/FDI and intellectual property rights. He also holds board positions in various Director boards ranging from SMEs to MNCs operating globally & is an author of many business books offering valuable insights in navigating the complexities of how to successfully operate in the international marketplace.

His commitment to fostering business relationships can be seen in his roles as the Chairman of the Board of the EUCCC Nanjing Chapter from April 2012 to April 2014, Chair of the Legal & Competition Working Group at the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China (EUCCC) Shanghai Chapter from April 2014 to May 2018, and as the EUCCC National Vice President based in Beijing from May 2021 until May 2023. In these positions, he actively participated in shaping legal and competition policies, advocating for fair business practices, and fostering a favorable business environment for European companies in China.

His dedication and leadership within the EUCCC are evidenced by serving as a two-term Chairman of the Shanghai Chapter Board of the Chamber from May 2017 to May 2021. Additionally, Nanjing Working Group Coordinator of the China-Italy Chamber of Commerce from November 2011 to December 2016.

He now is the acting National Vice President of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China and Chairman of the Board of the Shanghai Chapter.

In 2019, he was recognized as one of the twenty most influential Italian figures in relations between Italy and China by Capital magazine, part of the Class Editori Group.

In 2024, he was awarded the Magnolia Silver Award by the Municipality of Shanghai, an honor given to foreign individuals who have made significant contributions to the city’s development.

In 2024, he also received the Hongqiao Friendship Award, presented to individuals who have fostered strong ties and cooperation between Shanghai and the international community.

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.

Michael Dunne is the Chief Executive Officer of Dunne Insights LLC, an advisory firm with expertise in global electric vehicle markets and battery supply chains. He is also an LP at Assembly Ventures, a Michigan-based venture capital company.

Dunne is the author of the Wall Street Journal acclaimed book, “American Wheels, Chinese Roads.”

Dunne was previously the President of General Motors Indonesia and, before that, the Managing Director of JD Power operations in China. He worked in Asia for 25 years as an entrepreneur and an executive in China, Vietnam, Thailand, and Indonesia.

Dunne earned a bachelor’s degree and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Michigan.

David Feith served 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.

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.

Jonathan Fritz is the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian & Pacific Affairs. Previously, he served as the Chief of Staff to the Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy & the Environment and the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian & Pacific Affairs responsible for China, Mongolia, and Taiwan. Before that, he was the Director for Bilateral & Regional Affairs in the State Department’s Office of International Communications & Information Policy. Prior to that he was posted at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, where he served alternately as Minister-Counselor for Economic Affairs, Chief of Staff, acting Deputy Chief of Mission, and chargé d’ affaires. From 2010-2014 Jonathan headed the economic sections of our embassies in Canberra and Kabul. Before that, he worked on trade, investment, and IPR issues at our posts in Beijing, Mexico City, and Hong Kong. Jonathan also served in Washington on the staff of the Deputy Secretary of State, as a trade negotiator in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, and as a desk officer in the State Department’s Office of Chinese & Mongolian Affairs. Jonathan began his Foreign Service career with consular tours in China and Ecuador. He spent two years at the U.S. Air Force Academy before transferring to Stanford University, where he graduated with a B.A. and an M.A. in East Asian studies.

Bonnie S. Glaser is managing director of GMF’s Indo-Pacific program. She is also a nonresident fellow with the Lowy Institute in Sydney, Australia, and a senior associate with the Pacific Forum. She is a co-author of US-Taiwan Relations: Will China's Challenge Lead to a Crisis (Brookings Press, April 2023). She was previously senior adviser for Asia and the director of the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Glaser has worked at the intersection of Asia-Pacific geopolitics and US policy for more than three decades.

From 2008 to mid-2015, she was a senior adviser with the CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies, and from 2003 to 2008, she was a senior associate in the CSIS International Security Program. Prior to joining CSIS, she served as a consultant for various U.S. government offices, including the Departments of Defense and State. Ms. Glaser has published widely in academic and policy journals, including the Washington Quarterly, China Quarterly, Asian Survey, International Security, Contemporary Southeast Asia, American Foreign Policy Interests, Far Eastern Economic Review, and Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, as well as in leading newspapers such as the New York Times and Wall Street Journal and in various edited volumes on Asian security. She is currently a board member of the U.S. Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific and a member of both the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. She served as a member of the Defense Department’s Defense Policy Board China Panel in 1997. Ms. Glaser received her B.A. in political science from Boston University and her M.A. with concentrations in international economics and Chinese studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Jimmy Goodrich is a leading scholar and expert on Chinese and East Asian technology, geopolitics, and national security. He is a senior fellow at the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) and a consultant to the RAND Corporation. His work focuses on the rise of Chinese science and technology and its impact on global power and competitiveness, with emphasis on critical emerging technologies such as AI, semiconductors, fusion, aerospace, and basic science. He is frequently quoted in national media, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Washington Post.

Before his career as a scholar and analyst, Jimmy spent two decades in the technology sector and industry associations. For nearly a decade, he served as vice president for global policy at the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), where he led work on supply chains, trade, national security and export controls, global market research, and China, and oversaw research on Chinese industrial policy and chip industry economics. He also played a key role in efforts to secure $52 billion for the CHIPS & Science Act. He previously directed China policy at the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) in Washington, D.C., and earlier spent seven years in China’s tech sector, including at Cisco Systems.

Jimmy holds a bachelor’s degree in Comparative Politics and East Asian Studies from Ohio University, is professionally fluent in Mandarin, and serves on the board of the American Mandarin Society, which promotes Mandarin study in the United States.

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 E. Harrell is a nonresident fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He also serves as an attorney advising companies and investors on international legal, regulatory, and geopolitical risks. As a member of Carnegie’s American Statecraft program, Harrell’s research focuses on issues of U.S. domestic economic competitiveness, trade policy, and the use of economic tools in U.S. foreign policy.

From January 2021 through 2022, Harrell served at the U.S. White House as senior director for international economics, jointly appointed to the National Security Council and the National Economic Council. In that role, Harrell co-led President Biden’s E.O. 14017 supply chain resilience agenda; worked on the global digital, 5G, and telecommunications strategies; spearheaded negotiations with the European Union on the U.S.-E.U. Data Privacy Framework; served as the White House representative to the CFIUS committee; and worked on U.S. sanctions and export controls towards Russia is response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Immediately prior to joining the White House, Harrell served on the Biden-Harris Transition team from September 2020 to January 2021.

From 2015 to early 2021 Harrell was an attorney in private practice and served as Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security. In those roles he advised U.S. and multinational companies on sanctions compliance and a range of geopolitical risks, and also published widely on public policy. His articles and op-eds appeared in publications including the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Politico, and Lawfare, among other outlets. Harrell has testified in front of multiple congressional committees, including, most recently, the House Financial Services Committee in February 2023.

From 2012 to 2014, 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, Harrell served on President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign and as a reporter for Congressional Quarterly in Washington, DC.

Harrell is a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University and holds a JD from the Yale Law School.

Michael Hart is President of the American Chamber of Commerce in China (AmCham China), based in Beijing. He has 30 years of experience in Asia, including almost 25 years in mainland China.

As President, Michael oversees all advocacy, programs, partnerships, and insights provided by the Chamber to support the business growth of around 800 foreign corporations operating in China, including most of the US Fortune 500. The Chamber’s advocacy includes the American Business in China White Paper and China 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 NYSE-listed property services firm, JLL. He started in the research division briefing real estate owners, occupiers, and investors on transactions and macro trends, before opening, building, and leading a company branch office in Tianjin, one of China’s largest cities, for over a decade. Following this, Michael opened a private consulting and investment firm that invested in quick service restaurants, among other projects.

In addition to this work, Michael has been a long-term AmCham China member and served on the Tianjin Chapter’s Executive Committee for nearly 15 years, including several terms as Chair.

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

Mikko Huotari is the Executive Director of MERICS. His research focuses on China’s political and economic development, foreign policy, China-Europe relations, as well as geoeconomic competition. He has published on China’s rise as a financial power, trade and investment relations with Europe as well as on geopolitical shifts related to China's emergence as a global security actor.

Mikko studied in Freiburg, Nanjing and Shanghai. He holds a PhD from Freiburg University and was a guest scholar at the University of California in San Diego in 2017/2018. In 2019, Mikko was appointed as one of 15 German representatives to the German-Chinese Dialogue Forum. Since January 28, 2026, he is a member of the “Commission on reviewing economic relations between Germany and China with relevance for security” of the Committee on Economic Affairs and Energy.

Greg Ip is the Chief Economics Commentator for The Wall Street Journal. Previously, he was the U.S. economics editor for The Economist, covering the economy, financial markets, monetary, fiscal, and regulatory policy and contributes to The Economist’s blog, Free Exchange.

Prior to this, he was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, most recently as a chief economics correspondent in Washington. He created Real Time Economics, The Wall Street Journal’s online blog of Fed and economic news. He joined the Journal in 1996 as a reporter covering financial markets in New York.

Mr. Ip began his journalism career as a reporter for the Vancouver (B.C.) Sun from May to December 1989. He joined the Financial Post in Toronto, Ontario, in January 1990 and was an economics and financial reporter in Canada and later transferred to Washington, D.C., as a correspondent for the paper. In September 1995, he became a business and economics reporter for the Globe and Mail in Toronto.

In 2008, Mr. Ip with several colleagues won the William Brewster Styles Award in business and economics writing from the Scripps Howard Foundation for coverage of the mortgage and housing crisis. In March 2005, Mr. Ip won a Business Journalist of the Year award from the World Leadership Forum in the “Best Story on Economics” category for his two-part series on the legacy of Alan Greenspan. In 2002, The Wall Street Journal Staff was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in the breaking news reporting category for articles from the September 12, 2001 edition. Mr. Ip and a Journal colleague wrote “Attacks Raise Fears of a Recession,” one of the articles included in the prize-winning package. The Journal staff also received the Jesse Laventhol Prize for deadline news reporting from the American Society of Newspaper Editors and won second place in the National Headliner Awards. In 1998, Mr. Ip as part of a team of Journal reporters received the Overseas Press Club’s Malcolm Forbes Award for business reporting for their coverage of the Asian financial crisis. He was also a member of a team of reporters receiving the 1998 Society of American Business Editors and Writers Best in Business Award. The award in the spot news category was for coverage of the financial market drop of October 27, 1997.

Ip frequently appears on radio and television, including CNBC, BBC, CNN, MSNBC, PBS, and National Public Radio.

A native of Canada, Mr. Ip received a bachelor’s degree in economics and journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland. He is the author of "The Little Book of Economics: How the Economy works in the Real World."

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.

Kevin Kolevar is the Vice President of Global Government Affairs at Dow. Based in Midland, Michigan, Kevin leads federal, state and international government affairs and manages legislative, regulatory and political affairs for the Company.

Prior to joining Dow, Kevin was a founder and managing director at ClearView Energy Partners, an energy research, analysis and consulting firm that helps clients capitalize on energy sector changes through analysis of economic fundamentals, operational realities and politics.

Before starting ClearView, Kevin served as Assistant Secretary for Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability at the United States Department of Energy (DOE). In that capacity, Kolevar led the Department’s work to modernize the electric grid through next generation technologies; enhance the security and resiliency of critical energy infrastructure in the U.S., Saudi Arabia and Kuwait; and facilitate the reconstruction and recovery of damaged or disrupted energy systems in the U.S.

Previously, Kevin served as the Chief of Staff to the Deputy Secretary of Energy and supported and advised the Secretary and Deputy Secretary on policy, regulatory and legislative matters as well as Departmental program management. He also worked as a senior policy advisor to the Secretary on security and technology issues.

Kevin began his career on Capitol Hill, where he spent over ten years working for both Senator Spencer Abraham (Michigan) and Senator Connie Mack (Florida). He received his B.A. from the University of Michigan. Kevin is a member of World 50, a private community for CEOs and C-level executives at globally respected organizations to discover better ideas, share valuable experiences and build relationships that make a lasting impact.

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.

Prior to his election to Congress, Brian followed in his father’s footsteps by serving in the U.S. Army for more than 12 years, earning medals including The Bronze Star Medal, The Army Commendation Medal for Valor, The Purple Heart Medal, and The Defense Meritorious Service Medal. While deployed in Afghanistan, he worked as a bomb disposal expert under the elite Joint Special Operations Command. The last improvised explosive device that he found resulted in catastrophic injuries, which included the loss of both of his legs.

While lying in bed recovering at Walter Reed Medical Center, Brian’s father gave him advice that has stuck with him to this day–to ensure the greatest service he gave to our country and the best example he set for his children was still ahead of him. Brian took this advice to heart and dedicated himself to finding new ways to serve our country and his community.

Brian remained on active duty following the injuries and provided expertise to the National Nuclear Security Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms during his recovery process. After his retirement from the Army, he continued working in counter-terrorism and national defense as an Explosive Specialist with the Department of Homeland Security. Brian subsequently received a degree from Harvard University and volunteered to serve alongside the Israel Defense Forces.

Jason Matheny is president and chief executive officer of RAND, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that helps improve policy and decisionmaking 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.

JJames McGregor is chairman of APCO’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, Jim was the founder and CEO of a China-focused consulting and research firm for hedge funds, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal and chief executive of Dow Jones & Company in China. Jim 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 function.

He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, the International Council of Asia Society, the advisory board of the Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub and a board member of the U.S.-China Education Trust.

Jim is a professional speaker, regular television and radio commentator and a contributor of essays and opinion articles for a variety of publications. He lived in China for three decades and now based in the U.S. He splits his time between Minnesota, Washington D.C., the Bay Area, Shanghai, Beijing and elsewhere.

Chris McGuire is a senior fellow for China and emerging technologies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a leading expert in U.S.-China technology competition, export controls and other technology protection policies, artificial intelligence, and semiconductors.

McGuire served as a career government official for over a decade, including as the deputy senior director for technology and national security at the National Security Council (NSC), where he served from 2022 to 2024. In that capacity, he coordinated all government policies related to technology competition with China, artificial intelligence, and semiconductors, and helped manage the NSC directorate focused on all critical and emerging technologies. During his tenure at the NSC, McGuire crafted and implemented the Biden administration’s technology protection strategy, including all semiconductor and dual-use technology export controls, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, outbound investment policy, and other technology regulations.

McGuire has also served as a senior advisor in the State Department and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, at the Department of Defense as a special assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and as director for research and analysis on the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence. He has also served as the State Department’s lead subject matter expert on U.S.-Russia nuclear weapons and arms control policy. Before entering government, McGuire worked at McKinsey & Company in New York.

McGuire holds a bachelor’s degree from Pomona College and a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard Kennedy School.

Oliver supervises a research team focused on macroeconomics, trade, industrial policy, subsidies, supply chains, and the broad set of interactions between China and the rest of the world economy.

Prior to joining Rhodium Group, Oliver spent five years as the US Treasury Department Financial Attaché in China, where he advised Treasury leadership and the US ambassador. He was intimately involved in high-level discussions and negotiations on trade frictions, industrial policy, sanctions, and financial regulation.

Prior to his Treasury Department role, Oliver served for nearly a decade as a Senior Analyst with the US Department of State’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, where he was a leading expert on China’s industrial policies, economic statecraft, macroeconomy, trade policy, and economic decision-making. His policy recommendations and analysis have been influential at the highest levels of the US government, and he has personally briefed cabinet secretaries, national security advisors, and the president of the United States.

Oliver has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago and a master’s degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

Chris Miller is Professor of International History, where his research focuses on technology, geopolitics, economics, international affairs, and Russia.

He is author of Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology, a geopolitical history of the computer chip.

He is the author of three other books on Russia, including Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia; We Shall Be Masters: Russia's Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin; and The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR. He has previously served as the Associate Director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at Yale, a lecturer at the New Economic School in Moscow, a visiting researcher at the Carnegie Moscow Center, a research associate at the Brookings Institution, and as a fellow at the German Marshall Fund's Transatlantic Academy. He received his PhD and MA from Yale University and his BA in history from Harvard University.

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

As Michigan’s only 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, the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies and the Subcommittee on National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs.

Moolenaar also serves as Chairman of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party. In this role, he leads efforts to stop the CCP’s economic and national security threats. Under his leadership, the committee has made significant strides in countering the CCP's malign influence and raising awareness about the threats it poses to the American people.

During his time in Congress, Moolenaar has focused on improving the lives of Michiganders. He has introduced legislation to hold the VA accountable to our veterans; to help rural residents get better internet; to improve the care our seniors receive; to stop taxpayer dollars from going to our nation’s adversaries; and to support hardworking Michigan farmers.

Moolenaar is also the Co-Chair for the Congressional School Choice Caucus with Senator Tim Scott (R-SC). As a parent, Moolenaar is proud to support parental rights and school choice in Michigan and across America.

Moolenaar brings years of leadership experience in the private and public sectors. 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 2011-2014.

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

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.

Frederic Neumann, PhD, is Managing Director, Chief Asia Economist, and Co-head of Global Research Asia at HSBC, based in Hong Kong. Before joining HSBC, Frederic was an adjunct professor at a number of US universities, teaching courses on Asian sovereign risk analysis, international financial markets, international monetary policy, and Southeast Asian political culture. He also served as a consultant on Asian economic and political affairs various public sector institutions. He is also a former research associate of the Institute for International Economics in Washington, DC. A former Fulbright scholar, Frederic Neumann holds a PhD in International Economics and Asian Studies.

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.

DMr. 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.

She was previously 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 the principal director for Biotechnology within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research & Engineering at the Department of Defense.

Dr. Rozo also served as a senior national security advisor for Cooperative Threat Reduction at the Department of State, and as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellow in the office of Senator Bob Casey (D-PA).

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 BA in Biology from Northwestern University.

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 organizations. 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 Honors 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.

Sara Schuman is a Managing Director at Beacon Global Strategies and leads the firms International Trade Practice. Ms. Schuman brings unparalleled experience and insight at the forefront of U.S.-China trade relations, previously serving in senior U.S. government roles for more than a decade in Washington and Beijing.

Prior to joining Beacon, Ms. Schuman was the Senior Trade Representative for China at the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR). In this capacity, she was one of the key U.S. officials responsible for trade negotiations with China and developing and implementing U.S. trade policy towards China, including coordinating with U.S. trading partners and allies on economic security initiatives.

Ms. Schuman also served as the Minister Counselor for Trade Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing during the first Trump and Biden Administrations. As the top U.S. trade official in China, she served as USTR’s envoy to the People’s Republic of China.

Ms. Schuman was deeply involved with the Phase One Agreement trade negotiations and had broad responsibilities for monitoring implementation of China’s commitments under the agreement. During the second Trump Administration, she was involved in multiple rounds of high-level negotiations with China and USTR’s review of China-related trade issues under the “Presidential Memorandum on America First Trade Policy”.

Ms. Schuman also has extensive experience with trade enforcement actions, including work on several trade disputes against China at the World Trade Organization (WTO) on issues such as rare earths, raw materials, aircraft, automobiles, aluminum, intellectual property rights, subsidies, electronic payments, and agriculture. She also played a leading role in USTR’s Section 301 investigation of China’s technology transfer practices during the first Trump Administration.

During her time in government, Ms. Schuman worked extensively with other U.S. government agencies, including the Department of Treasury, Department of Commerce, Department of State, Department of Agriculture, Department of Energy, and Department of Homeland Security.

Ms. Schuman was also detailed to the U.S. House of Representative’s bipartisan Select Committee on the Strategic Competition with China for one year, where she served as a senior advisor on trade and economic security to the Ranking Member.

Ms. Schuman is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and has spent more than a decade living and working in China. Prior to joining USTR in 2013, Ms. Schuman previously practiced law with an international law firm in New York and Beijing.

She holds a J.D. magna cum laude from Brooklyn Law School and a B.A. cum laude in International Politics and Economics from Middlebury College. She also holds a certificate in China Studies from the Johns Hopkins University Nanjing Center.

Demetri Sevastopulo covers all aspects of the US-China relationship, ranging from foreign policy, national security and intelligence to trade, economics and business.

Demetri served as Washington Bureau Chief from 2015 to 2021, covering the White House, Trump administration and the 2016 and 2020 presidential races. During his more than 13 years reporting from Washington, he spent six years covering the Pentagon and intelligence agencies during the Bush and Obama administrations. He has interviewed everyone from Donald Rumsfeld to Donald Trump.

Since leaving his native Ireland three decades ago, Demetri has lived in Tokyo, Beijing, Hong Kong and Washington. Before returning to Washington in 2015, he spent five years in Hong Kong where he was South China Correspondent and served as Asia News Editor, running the FT daily news operations in the region.

Krishna Srinivasan is the Director of the Asia and Pacific Department (APD). In this capacity, he will oversee the institution’s work on all countries in the Asia-Pacific region. He was previously a Deputy Director in APD, overseeing the work on several systemically important countries, including China and Korea. Prior to that, Krishna was a Deputy Director in the Western Hemisphere Department (WHD), where he oversaw the institution’s work on several countries in the Americas, including Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Ecuador and the island economies of the Caribbean, the department’s research activities, and its flagship product, Regional Economic Outlook (REO) for Latin America and the Caribbean. He is a co-editor of two recent books: Brazil—Boom, Bust and the Road to Recovery; and Unleashing Growth and Strengthening Resilience in the Caribbean. Before joining WHD, Krishna was the IMF’s mission chief for the United Kingdom and Israel, when he was a staff member of the European Department, and before that in the Research Department, where he led the IMF’s work on the G-20 in the context of the global financial crisis. In the context of this work, he and was the editor of an IMF book Global Rebalancing: A Roadmap for Economic Recovery. Krishna has been with the IMF since 1994 and has served in several departments across the institution. He secured his PhD in International Finance from Indiana University and a Master’s from the Delhi School of Economics, India, and has published several papers both at the IMF and in leading academic journals.

Sarah V. Stewart is the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of Silverado Policy Accelerator. Ms. Stewart has over 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 security. Ms. Stewart's views are featured in national publications such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, 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 led the environment chapter negotiations for the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with the European Union. Prior to joining USTR, Ms. Stewart served in different legal and policy roles at a major international non-profit organization, 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 as an international trade attorney with a focus on the steel sector.

Ms. Stewart serves on the Board of Directors for the Washington International Trade Foundation (WITF) and for GirlSecurity, and is a fellow at the National Security Institute at George Mason's Antonin Scalia Law School. Ms. Stewart was named one of Washingtonian's Tech Titans for 2025. Her spare time is spent on the field coaching her daughter's middle school lacrosse team.

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 author of the award-winning WSJ China newsletter. She covers China's political economy, focusing on the intersection of business and politics, and U.S.-China relations.

Born and raised in China, she has a master's in journalism from New York University, got her start covering U.S. real estate, and has won many awards for her China coverage. She was among a team of reporters and editors whose work was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2021. She was also on the team that produced the Journal’s “Missing Minister” investigative podcast series, which won the New York Press Club’s national podcast award in 2025. Lingling is co-author of the book "Superpower Showdown."

Jennifer Welch is the Chief Geoeconomics Analyst for Bloomberg Economics. She previously served as the director for China and Taiwan on the US National Security Council under the Biden and Trump Administrations, and as the advisor to Vice Presidents Harris and Pence on Asia and the Pacific. She is based in Washington, D.C.

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, the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Verdienstorden) from President Frank-Walter Steinmeier of Germany and Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic Austria by President von der Bellen.

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. Eric has been involved in AmCham Shanghai for many years in various elected roles including as Chairman of the Board of Governors.

Eric had a long career with AIG and held a number of executive positions in China that culminated in his service as President & CEO of AIG China. Prior to AIG, he worked for the U.S. Department of Commerce as Principal Commercial Officer at the U.S. Consulate General in Guangzhou. Before moving back to China over 20 years ago, Eric worked for PwC in the U.S. as a management consultant.

Eric is active in not-for-profit and charity organizations. He serves on the board of the Committee of 100 (C100) and as its Greater China regional chair. C100 is a non-partisan leadership organization in the U.S. of over 100 prominent Chinese-Americans. He also serves on the board of Shanghai Make-A-Wish Charity Foundation. The Shanghai municipal government has honored Eric with its prestigious Magnolia Gold Award in recognition of his significant contributions to the city.

Eric graduated from Fudan University in Shanghai with a BA and holds an MBA from Georgetown University in Washington, DC.

Dr. Ning Zhu is a Professor of Finance at the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Previously, he held the position of Chair Professor at Tsinghua University and was a tenured Professor of Finance at the University of California. He also served as a Visiting Professor at Waseda University. From 2008 to 2010, Dr. Zhu worked as a Senior Executive at Lehman Brothers and Nomura Securities, leading teams that achieved top rankings in several institutional investor awards.

Professor Zhu's research interests encompass behavioral finance, Chinese macroeconomics and financial markets, short selling, bankruptcy and restructuring, corporate finance, and mergers and acquisitions. He has published over 50 articles in prestigious international journals, including the Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Finance, Management Science, and Journal of Legal Studies. Dr. Zhu is the author of the best-selling books The Guaranteed Bubble, The Investors' Enemy, and The Investors' Friend, which have been translated into multiple languages and gained widespread recognition. He was awarded the Sun Yefang Financial Innovation Book Award in 2018 and was included in the list of "China's Most Cited Scholars" by Elsevier in 2022.

Professor Zhu is a globally recognized expert on China's economy and financial system. He is a Faculty Fellow at Yale University, General Secretariat at the International Finance Forum, and Co-Secretary General of the International Financial Forum. Dr. Zhu has been invited as a guest speaker to the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Boao Forum for Asia, and other prominent events. He has also been interviewed by numerous domestic and international TV media outlets. Furthermore, Dr. Zhu has provided extensive consulting services to international organizations, governments, regulatory agencies, and major corporations worldwide.

James M. Zimmerman is a Beijing-based lawyer and author who has lived and worked in China for more than twenty-seven years. He raised three daughters in China who attended their entire schooling years at the Western Academy of Beijing.

James is among China’s leading foreign lawyers and represents companies and individuals confronted with the political and legal complexities of doing business in Mainland China. As a seasoned lawyer and partner with the law firm of Loeb & Loeb LLP Beijing Representative Office, he advises foreign companies on corporate, transactional, regulatory, litigation and white-collar criminal defense matters. James has extensive experience assisting individuals detained and prosecuted under China’s national security and state secrecy laws and regulations, including several high-profile and politically sensitive cases. He represents foreign media—including print, broadcast and social media—in addressing challenges related to security, press freedoms and general operations in China.

James was elected by the membership and served as chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in China for four terms (2007, 2008, 2015, 2016), and as a vice chairman for two terms (2005, 2006).

He is also the author of the acclaimed non-fiction book The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China, a New York Times Editors Choice and listed as a best non-fiction book by Fortune Magazine and China Books Review. The Peking Express is a true story of China’s great train robbery of 1923 and is currently in production as a feature film to be co-produced in China and the United States. A Chinese version of his book is forthcoming by the end of this year.