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Chairman Carolyn Bartholomew has worked at senior levels in the U.S. Congress, serving as a long-time counsel, legislative director, and chief of staff to then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She was a professional staff member on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and also served as a legislative assistant to then U.S. Representative Bill Richardson.

Alex Wong is a senior fellow at Hudson Institute. His research spans US national security policy and foreign affairs, with a particular focus on US strategy in the Indo-Pacific region and the future of the Korean Peninsula.

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Bryan Burack is a Senior Policy Advisor for China and the Indo-Pacific in The Heritage Foundation’s Asian Studies Center. 

Burack’s work focuses on China and threats to U.S. national security, U.S. foreign policy in the Indo-Pacific region, and supporting federal and state legislative efforts in these areas, including crafting model legislation. 

Prior to joining Heritage in 2023, Burack served for eight years on Capitol Hill, most recently as Professional Staff Member and Counsel for the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC), where he was Congressman Michael McCaul’s (R-Texas) lead advisor for Indo-Pacific foreign policy and national security issues. In this role, he drafted, negotiated, and assisted in the enactment of federal legislation to confront threats from the People’s Republic of China. 

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Andrew Bremberg is an American attorney and political advisor who most recently served as Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the Office of the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva. He previously served as Assistant to the President and the director of the Domestic Policy Council for U.S. President Donald Trump.

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Kimberly Reed is an American attorney who served as the Chairman and President of the Export–Import Bank of the United States from 2019 to 2021. Reed previously served as a senior advisor to Treasury Secretaries John W. Snow and Henry Paulson. Reed headed the United States delegation to the inauguration ceremony of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in Pretoria on May 28, 2019.

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Zenel Garcia is an Associate Professor of Security Studies in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the U.S. Army War College. His research focuses on the intersection of international relations theory, security, and geopolitics. Specifically, how interpretations of security and the geopolitical environment shape the discursive and empirical processes of regional formation and transformation in the Indo-Pacific and Eurasia.

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Bob Fu is a Chinese-American pastor. In 2002, he founded ChinaAid, which provides legal aid to Christians in China, and has been its president since then. Bob Fu was born in Shandong in 1968 and studied English literature at Liaocheng University in the 1980s.

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Michael Stumo is the Chief Executive Officer of the Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA), the leading, national bipartisan organization representing exclusively domestic producers and workers across many industries and sectors of the U.S. economy.

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Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian is the China reporter at Axios, where she writes high-impact investigations, exclusives, and analysis about China, with a focus on how China projects power and influence beyond its own borders.  She is also the author of "Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World." Bethany is based in Taipei, Taiwan.

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Anthony Ruggiero is senior director of FDD’s Nonproliferation and Biodefense Program and a senior fellow at FDD. Anthony’s broad experience in the fields of counterproliferation and nonproliferation spans more than 21 years, including more than 19 years in the United States Government in both Democratic and Republican administrations.

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David Dollar is Senior Economist at the World Bank. Edward N. Wolff is Professor of Economics at New York University.

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