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• Senior Fellow, the Director of Congressional Affairs, and a member of the leadership team at the German Marshall Fund of the United States
• Over 25 years of global affairs, public policy, legal, legislative, regulatory and political experience
• During the Obama Administration, Reta served as the U. S. Department of States’ first-ever Special Representative for Global Intergovernmental Affairs, under Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry from 2010 to 2013. She was the lead interlocutor in negotiating and executing the first historic agreements to solidify subnational cooperation and engagement efforts with BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) countries and with targeted countries in the European Union
• She serves as a Member of the Biden National Finance Committee, National Security Leaders for Biden, a Biden member of the Rules Committee for the 2020 Democratic National Convention, and she is the National Chair of Women of Color for Biden

Rick HELFENBEIN is the former president and CEO of the American Apparel & Footwear Association, the national trade association representing more than 1,000 brands in the apparel, footwear, and accessories industry. Rick is credited with overseeing a full overhaul of the … Continued

• 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

• 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

• Bilingual writer with critically received books in both China and the West
• Producer of some of the most watched documentaries about China seen on mainstream Western televisions
• Communicator dedicated to making China more understandable to the world, and vice versa

• Associate Professor of Political Science and member of Security Studies Program at MIT
• An expert on Asian policy studies and international defense
• Rhodes Scholar

• Founder and Chairman of the board of Horizon Research Consultancy Group, China’s leading public opinion and polling organization
• President of the Beijing Consulting Association
• Vice President for China Marketing Research Association
• Representative of the Association of Management Consulting Firms in China

• 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

• Founder of Yuan Associates, a premier Chinese government affairs firm
• An expert in government affairs
• Former China Agriculture Attaché in Washington D.C.

• Founder and CEO of Young China Group
• Author of Young China: How the Restless Generation Will Change Their Country and the World, which explores a wide and deep range of identity questions impacting the country’s emerging young generation
• Fluent Mandarin speaker