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​​James Acton
Co-Director, Nuclear Policy Program and Jessica T. Mathews Chair, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
 
Craig Allen
US Ambassador (ret)

Yuen Yuen Ang
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan

 
Andrew Bacevich
Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft 
 
Jeffrey A. Bader
Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Former senior director for East Asia on National Security Council, 2009-2011
 
C. Fred Bergsten
Senior Fellow and Director Emeritus, Peterson Institute for International Economics
 
Jan Berris
Vice President, National Committee on United States-China Relations
 
Thomas P. Bernstein
Professor Emeritus, Columbia University
 
Dennis J. Blasko
Former United States Army Attaché to China
 
Pieter Bottelier
Professor of China studies (retired), School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
 
Ian Bremmer
President, Eurasia Group
 
David G. Brown
Visiting Scholar, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

 David Bulman
McGovern-Muller Assistant Professor of International Affairs and China Studies, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Richard Bush
Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies, Brookings Institution

Paul G. Clifford
Non-resident Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
 
Jerome A. Cohen
Faculty Director, US-Asia Law Institute, New York University
 
Warren I. Cohen
Distinguished University Professor, Emeritus, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
 
Bernard Cole
Captain, US Navy (Ret.)
 
James F. Collins
U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation, 1997-2001
 
Gerald L Curtis
Burgess Professor Emeritus, Columbia University
 
Toby Dalton
Co-Director, Nuclear Policy Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
 
Robert Daly
Director, Kissinger Institute on China and the U.S.
 
Michael C. Desch
Packey J. Dee Professor of International Affairs and Director of the Notre Dame International Security Center
 
John Delury
Associate Professor of Chinese Studies, Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies
 
I. M. Destler
Professor Emeritus, Maryland School of Public Policy
 
Bruce Dickson
Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University
 
David Dollar
Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
 
Peter Dutton
Senior Fellow, US-Asia Law Institute and Adjunct Professor, New York University School of Law
 
Clayton Dube
Director, U.S.-China Institute, University of Southern California
 
David M. Edelstein
Vice Dean of Faculty and Associate Professor of International Affairs, Georgetown University
 
Rob Efrid
Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies, Seattle University
 
Robert Einhorn
Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Former Assistant Secretary of State for Nonproliferation
 
Mark Elliott
Vice Provost for International Affairs, Harvard University

​Amitai Etzioni
University Professor and Professor of International Affairs, George Washington University
 
Joseph Fewsmith
Boston University

Thomas Fingar
Asia Pacific Research Center, Stanford University
Former Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis
 
M. Taylor Fravel
Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science and Director, Security Studies Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mark W. Frazier
Professor of Politics, The New School

 
Carla P. Freeman
Director, Foreign Policy Institute, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Glen S. Fukushima
Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress

 
Mary Gallagher, Professor of Political Science professor and Director of the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
 
John Gannon
Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University
Former Chairman, National Intelligence Council.
 
Mobo Gao
Chair of Chinese Studies, School of Social Sciences, the University of Adelaide

Charles Glaser
Professor of Political Science and International Affairs and Director, Institute for Security and Conflict Studies, George Washington University

Thomas B. Gold
Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

Avery Goldstein
David M. Knott Professor of Global Politics and International Relations, University of Pennsylvania
 
Professor Lyle Goldstein
Chinese military specialist
 
Steven M. Goldstein
Fairbank Center, Harvard University
 
David F. Gordon
Senior Advisor, International Institute of Strategic Studies
Former Director of Policy Planning, State Department
 
Philip H. Gordon
Mary and David Boies Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations
Former Special Assistant to the President and Coordinator for the Middle East and Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs
 
Mel Gurtov
Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Portland State University
 
Morton H. Halperin
Director, Policy Planning Staff Department of State, 1998-2001
 
Congressman Lee Hamilton
Former President and Director, The Wilson Center
 
Clifford A. Hart, Jr.
Former US Consul General to Hong Kong and Macau, 2013-2016
 
Paul Heer
Adjunct Professor, George Washington University
Former National Intelligence Officer for East Asia, 2007-2015
 
Eric Heginbotham
Principal Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
Eric J. Heikkila
Professor and Director of Global Engagement, Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California
 
Dennis Hickey
Distinguished Professor, Missouri State University
 
Christopher J. Hill
Former Assistant Secretary for East Asia/Pacific Affairs

Ambassador Carla A. Hills
Chair & CEO Hills & Company, International Consultants
Former United States Trade Representative, 1989 to 1993
 
Virginia Harper Ho
Professor & Associate Dean for International & Comparative Law Programs, University of Kansas School of Law
 
Jamie P. Horsley
Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law School
 
Yanzhong Huang
Professor, Seton Hall School of Diplomacy and International Relations
Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
 
Yukon Huang
Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
 
Frank Jannuzi
President and CEO, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation
 
Robert Jervis
Adlai E. Stevenson Professor and Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
 
Marvin Kalb
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings
 
David Kang
Maria Crutcher Professor of International Relations, University of Southern California
 
Mickey Kantor
Former U.S. Secretary of Commerce and U.S. Trade Representative
 
Robert Kapp
President, Robert A. Kapp & Associates, Inc.
Former President, US-China Business Council Former President, Washington Council on International Trade
 
Katherine Palmer Kaup
Professor of Asian Studies and Politics and International Affairs, Furman University

Albert Keidel
Adjunct Graduate Professor, George Washington University
Former deputy director of the Office of East Asian Nations at the U.S. Treasury Department
 
Robert O. Keohane
Professor of International Affairs, Emeritus, Princeton University
 
William Kirby
Head of China Fund, Harvard University
Professor, Harvard Business School
Former Dean of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
 
Randy Kluver
Dean, School of Global Studies and Partnerships, Oklahoma State University
 
Karrie Koesel
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
 
Helena Kolenda
Program Director for Asia
Henry Luce Foundation

Arthur R. Kroeber
Founding Partner and Head of Research, Gavekal Dragonomics
​Adjunct Professor, New York University Stern School of Business


Kaiser Y. Kuo
Host, The Sinica Podcast
 
Charles Kupchan
Professor of International Affairs, Georgetown University
Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
 
David M. Lampton
Professor Emeritus, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Oksenberg Rholen Fellow, Stanford University, Asia-Pacific Research Center
Past President National Committee on US-China Relations
 
Pierre F. Landry
Professor of Government & Public Administration, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
 
Nicholas Lardy
Anthony M. Solomon Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
 
Charles A. Laughlin
Ellen Bayard Weedon Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Virginia
 
Terry Lautz
Chair, Harvard-Yenching Institute
Former vice president, Luce Foundation

 
Chung Min Lee
Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Robert Legvold
Marshall D. Shulman Professor Emeritus, Columbia University


Herbert Levin
Former staff member for China on National Security Council and Policy Planning Council
 
Joanna Lewis
Associate Professor and Director of the Science, Technology and International Affairs Program, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
 
Cheng Li
Director and Senior Fellow, The John L. Thornton China Center, The Brookings Institution
 
Kenneth Lieberthal
Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan
Former Asia Senior Director, National Security Council
 
Herb Lin
Senior Research Scholar for Cyber Policy and Security, Stanford University
Hank J. Holland Fellow in Cyber Policy and Security, Hoover Institution
 
Yawei Liu
Director, China Program, The Carter Center
 
Peter Lorentzen
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of San Francisco
 
Zhao Ma
Associate Professor, Washington University in St. Louis
 
Jessica Mathews
Distinguished Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
 
James McGregor
Chairman, Greater China, APCO Worldwide
 
John McLaughlin
Distinguished practitioner in residence, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Former Deputy Director and Acting Director, CIA
 
Andrew Mertha
Hyman Professor and Director of the China Program, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
 
Alice Lyman Miller
Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
 
James Millward
Professor, Georgetown University 
 
Carl Minzner
Professor of Law, Fordham Law School
 
Walter F. Mondale
former Vice President of the United States, 1977-81, and former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, 1993-96 

Mike Mochizuki
Japan-US Relations Chair in Memory of Gaston Sigur, George Washington University
 
Michael Nacht
Thomas and Alison Schneider Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
 
Moises Naim
Distinguished Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Jonathan S. Noble
 Assistant Provost for Internationalization, University of Notre Dame

Joseph Nye
University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus and former Dean of the Harvard's Kennedy School of Government
 
Kevin O'Brien
Professor of Political Science and Director, Institute of East Asian Studies, UC-Berkeley
 
Tim Oakes
Professor of Geography and Director, Center for Asian Studies University of Colorado Boulder
 
Jean Oi
William Haas Professor in Chinese Politics, Stanford University
 
Lynette H Ong
Associate Professor, University of Toronto
 
Stephen A. Orlins
President, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations
 
William Overholt
Senior Research Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School
 
Douglas Paal
Distinguished Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International peace
 
Margaret M. Pearson
Dr. Horace V. and Wilma E. Harrison Distinguished Professor, University of Maryland, College Park
 
T. J. Pempel
Jack M. Forcey Professor, Political Science, UC Berkeley
 
Peter C. Perdue
Professor of History, Yale University
 
Elizabeth J. Perry
Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University and Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute
 
Daniel W. Piccuta
Former deputy chief of mission and acting ambassador, Beijing
 
Ambassador Thomas Pickering
Former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, 1997-2000

David Pietz
Professor of History, University of Arizona


Paul R. Pillar
​Nonresident senior fellow at the Center for Security Studies, Georgetown University
 
Stephen R. Platt
University of Massachusetts Amherst
 
Jonathan D. Pollack
Nonresident Senior Fellow, John L. Thornton China Center, Brookings Institution
  
Barry Posen
Ford International Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
Xiaoyu Pu
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Nevada
 
David Rank
Former Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy, Beijing
 
Lawrence C. Reardon
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of New Hampshire

Maria Repnikova
Assistant Professor in Global Communication, Georgia State University

 
Shelley Rigger
Brown Professor of East Asian Politics, Davidson College
 
Meg Rithmire
F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor, Harvard Business School
 
Charles S. Robb
Former U.S. Senator and Governor of Virginia

Madelyn C. Ross
Associate Director of China Studies Program, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Robert S. Ross
Professor of Political Science, Boston College
 
J. Stapleton Roy
Distinguished Scholar, Wilson Center Kissinger Institute on China and the United States
Former U.S. Ambassador to China
 
Samm Sacks
Cybersecurity Policy & China Digital Economy Fellow, New America
 
Scott D. Sagan
The Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science, Stanford University
 
Gary Samore
Senior Executive Director, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University
 
Richard J. Samuels
Ford International Professor of Political Science and Director, Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
David Sandalow
Inaugural Fellow, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University
Former senior official at the White House, State Department and US Department of Energy
 
Thomas Schoenbaum
Shefelman Professor of Law, University of Washington
 
David Shear
Former Assistant Secretary of Defense and former U.S. ambassador to Vietnam

Derek Shearer
Chevalier Professor of Diplomacy and Director, McKinnon Center for Global Affairs, Occidental College
Former US Ambassador

 
Eric Shepherd
Associate Professor of Chinese, University of South Florida
 
Joshua Shifrinson
Assistant Professor, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
 
Victor Shih
Ho Miu Lam Chair in China and Pacific Relations, Associate Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UCSD
 
Kay Shimizu
University of Pittsburgh
 
Dennis Simon
Executive Vice Chancellor, Duke Kunshan University
 
Anne-Marie Slaughter
Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
Former Director, Policy Planning, U.S. Department of State
 
Richard Sokolsky
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
 
Dorothy J. Solinger
Professor Emerita, University of California, Irvine
 
Phillip Stalley
Associate Professor, DePaul University
 
James Steinberg
Former Deputy Secretary of State
 
Michael D. Swaine
Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
 
Michael Szonyi
Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
 
Strobe Talbott
Former Deputy Secretary of State
 
Edith Terry
Managing Director, Cotton Tree Advisors
 
Susan Thornton
Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law School
Former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
 
Anne F. Thurston
Former Senior Research Professor, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Joseph D. Tucker
Associate Professor of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 
Ezra Vogel
Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Emeritus, Harvard University
 
Andrew G. Walder
Denise O’Leary and Kent Thiry Professor, School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University
 
Alex L. Wang
Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
 
Ray Wang
Acting CIO and Dean, Library and Information Services, The University of New Orleans
 
Zhi Wang
Research Faculty and Senior Policy Fellow, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University
 
Graham Webster, coordinating editor, Stanford-New America DigiChina Project
 
Jessica Chen Weiss
Associate Professor of Political Science, Cornell University
 
David A. Welch, University Research Chair, Balsillie School of International Affairs
 
Martin K. Whyte
John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and Sociology, Emeritus, Harvard University
 
Philip L. Wickeri (The Rev. Dr.)
Professor of Church History, Ming Hua Theological College Hong Kong

Richard L. Williams
U.S. Ambassador (ret)

Brantly Womack
Professor of Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia
 
Daniel B. Wright
President and CEO, GreenPoint Group
Former Managing Director for China and the Strategic Economic Dialogue, U.S. Department of Treasury

Shellen Wu
Associate Professor and Chair of Asian Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville

 
Bin Xu
Associate Professor of Sociology, Emory University; NCUSCR PIP Fellow
 
Stephen M. Young
Retired U.S. diplomat
 
Quansheng Zhao
Professor of International Relations and Chair of Asian Studies Research Council, American University
 
Suisheng (Sam) Zhao
Professor, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver
 
Yu Zhou
Professor of Geography, Vassar College
 
Zhiqun Zhu
Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Bucknell University 
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