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• Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
• Former director of Asian affairs at National Security Council (NSC)
• Member of the American Council on Foreign Relations

• Over 30 years photographing for National Geographic Magazine and other clients worldwide
• Frequent Keynote speaker & teacher
• Specialist in photographing Asia
• Publisher of 17 books
• Educator & teacher

• 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

• Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2016 to 2019
• British Conservative Politician

• 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

● International Conductor, Composer, and Leadership Mentor
● Founder of Israel Stage Orchestra
● Entrepreneur and manager of the hugely popular “Conducting Success” and “Master Class”
● Leading expert on using music for personal development