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• President and CEO of New York Institute of Technology (NYIT)
• An expert in the environment and sustainability, global higher education, and educational technology
• A frequent keynote speaker at conferences around the globe

• Resident Scholar at the Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy
• An expert in international business issues, including competition and cooperation between state and non-state economic entities
• Managing Partner of ChinaLine, LLC

• A free-lance correspondent based in Beijing and Berlin, accredited in China for The New York Times
• Writer for New York Review of Books, which is widely recognized as an influential magazine of ideas, The New Yorker, National Geographic
• An expert in China issues (especially politics, stability, prospects for reform), Islam in Europe, non-fiction writing and problems in journalism
• 2001 Pulitzer Prize Winner for International Reporting (China coverage)

• Director of the Center for Humanities & the Arts at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she also holds an appointment as Professor of Ethnic Studies
• Serves as the President of the Association for Asian American Studies (2020-2022)
• In addition to her academic work, Ho is active in community engagement around issues of race and intersectionality, leading workshops on anti-racism and how to talk about race in our current political climate

• Author of China Goes West: Everything You Need to Know About Chinese Companies Going Global (Palgrave Macmillan)
• An expert on global branding, and how Chinese companies are reshaping international business
• Managing Director at Frontier Strategy Group
• Member of the National Committee on United States-China Relations

• Editor-at-large at SupChina
• Consultant and Author
• Author of the critically-acclaimed The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present
• Author of Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China
• Formerly the Beijing bureau chief and editor with The Washington Post

• Director of the Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University
• An expert in East Asian political economy
• Former Special Advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to Japan

• Distinguished Fellow, Asia Research Institute, NUS
• Founding Dean, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS
• Former President, UNSC (Jan 2001 and May 2002)
• Former Permanent Secretary (CEO), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore
• Honorary International Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Visiting Fellow, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University

• David and Diane Steffy Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
• Director of Domestic Policy Studies and Lecturer in Public Policy, Stanford University
• Member, United States Social Security Advisory Board
• CNN Political Commentator
• Former Senior Adviser to the 2016 Presidential Campaign of Senator Marco Rubio
• Policy Director, Romney-Ryan 2012 Presidential Campaign

Latanya SWEENEY is a Professor of the Practice of Government and Technology at the Harvard Kennedy School and in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Government. Her mission is to create and use technology to assess and solve societal, political, … Continued