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• Director of the John L. Thornton China Center and the Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies at Brookings
• From 2013 to 2017, Hass served as the director for China, Taiwan and Mongolia at the National Security Council (NSC)
• Prior to joining NSC, Hass served as a Foreign Service Officer in U.S. Embassy Beijing

• Cybersecurity Policy and China Digital Economy Fellow at New America. Her research focuses on emerging information and communication technology (ICT) policies globally, particularly in China
• Previously, Sacks launched the industrial cyber business for Siemens in Asia, focusing on energy sector cybersecurity markets in Japan, South Korea, and China. Prior to this, she led China technology sector analysis at the political risk consultancy Eurasia Group

• Senior adviser and trustee chair in Chinese Business and Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
• hosts the China Field Notes podcast, which features voices from on the ground in China
• From 2000 to 2014, Kennedy was a professor at Indiana University (IU), where he established the Research Center for Chinese Politics and Business and was the founding academic director of IU’s China Office

• President of the US-China Business Council
• Served as the board chair of the American Chamber of Commerce in China and is the chair emeritus of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai
• co-chaired the China Public Policy Practice at Covington and Burling where he advised international businesses on political risk, public affairs, communications, and US and China government relations
• Sean previously served for nearly three decades as a US diplomat, including as Consul General in Shenyang and Shanghai. He also served on the China desk at the State Department, at the former consulate general in Chengdu, and in other positions around the Indo-Pacific

• Founder and CEO of APAC Advisors
• Senior Advisor at McLarty Associates
• Serves as Governor of the American Chamber of Commerce Singapore
• A sought-after expert on US politics and trade
• A regular contributor to CNBC and Channel NewsAsia

Steve Yates is a former deputy national security advisor to the Vice President, The Honorable Steve Yates serves as Senior Research Fellow for China and National Security Policy at The Heritage Foundation after two decades as an analyst and practitioner … Continued

Susan Shirk is research professor and the chair emeritus of the 21st Century China Center, an academic research center and university-based policy think tank at the School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego. She first visited China in 1971 … Continued

Susan A. Thornton is a retired senior U.S. diplomat with almost three decades of experience with the U.S. State Department in Eurasia and East Asia.  She is currently a Senior Fellow and Visiting Lecturer in Law at the Yale University … Continued

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

• Professor of political science at Beijing Foreign Studies University
• Expert in US-China relations and policy
• Researches U.S. Congress, public opinion, U.S.-China relations, and Chinese foreign policy