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• Lane-Swig Senior Fellow and Managing Director at the Washington Institute
• Senior Director for the Near East and North Africa at the US National Security Council from 2005-2008
• Co-chair of Mitt Romney’s 2012 State Department transition team
• Diplomatic advisor to the Romney presidential campaign in 2012
• Special Assistant to Secretaries of State Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice from 2004-2005

• Founder and CEO of Climate Alpha Global
• Founder & Managing Partner of FutureMap
• The leading next-generation voice in geopolitics and global markets
• One of Esquire’s “75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century”
• Senior Fellow, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore

• Leading expert on e-commerce and the Internet in China and emerging markets
• Former Vice-President at Alibaba Group (2000-2008) as the company grew from an apartment into the world’s largest e-commerce company
• Entrepreneur, e-commerce consultant and director of award-winning documentary film, Crocodile in the Yangtze: the Alibaba Story

• 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

• Founder, Collective Responsibility
• A popular speaker on issues of social innovation & entrepreneurship, sustainability, corporate social responsibility, and leadership
• Adjunct Professor, Sustainability and Responsible Leadership, China Europe International Business School

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

• Founder, Center10 Consulting LLC which is focused on Innovation, Strategy, Talent and Organizational Change
• An expert in strategy, innovation and operational
• Senior Fellow, Center for Talent Innovation which does cutting edge research on workforce factors and innovation

• Co-founder and President of Attract China
• An expert in SME, investment, recruitment and operational landscape in China
• A seasoned market entry strategist, advisor and highly successful entrepreneur

• Former White House Senior Policy Advisor for Nutrition and Chef to the President
• Founding partner of TROVE, an organization helping sustainable companies grow
• Senior Food Analyst at NBC News
• Venture partner in Acre Venture Partners

• 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