NATIONAL SECURITY
Brian Hart
Amanda Hsiao
Amanda Hsiao is the senior analyst for China at the International Crisis Group, where she covers developments in Chinese foreign policy that relate to conflict prevention and resolution. Most recently, her research has focused on managing tensions in the Taiwan Strait and along the Sino-Indian border, and strengthening U.S.-China crisis management practices. Earlier in her career, Amanda established and managed the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue’s China program in Beijing, designing and facilitating dialogues related to the South China Sea, U.S.-China relations, and China’s evolving approach to conflict mediation. She holds a Masters in Public Affairs from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs.
Ketian Zhang
Ketian Zhang is an Assistant Professor of International Security at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government. She studies rising powers’ grand strategies, coercion, economic statecraft, and maritime disputes, with a special focus on China. Her first book, China’s Gambit: The Calculus of Coercion, was published by Cambridge University Press in December 2024. Her second book will examine the relationship between economic interdependence and rising power grand strategies. Ketian’s research has also appeared in International Security, Journal of Strategic Studies, the Journal of Contemporary China, Texas National Security Review, Asia Policy, and the Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs. She was a post doctoral fellow at Stanford University’s Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.
TRADE & COMPETITIVENESS
Martin Chorzempa
Martin Chorzempa is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. His research focuses on financial technology and digital currency, as well as technology and national security issues like export controls and foreign investment screening. Martin is the author of The Cashless Revolution: China’s Reinvention of Money (PublicAffairs, October 2022), which the Financial Times named one of the best economics books of 2022. He has served as a Fulbright Scholar in Germany and a Luce Scholar at Peking University’s China Center for Economic Research, and he holds a Masters in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
Zongyuan Zoe Liu
Zongyuan Zoe Liu is the Maurice R. Greenberg Fellow for China Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Her work focuses on international finance, sovereign wealth funds, industrial policies, and energy security. Zoe is the author of Can BRICS De-dollarize the Global Financial System? (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and Sovereign Funds: How the Communist Party of China Finances its Global Ambitions (Harvard University Press, 2023). She is a columnist at Foreign Policy and also teaches at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. Previously she was an assistant professor Texas A&M’s Bush School of Government and Public Service. She has held post-doctoral fellowships at the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program and the Fletcher School’s Center for International Environment and Resource Policy.
Huan Zhu
Huan Zhu is the co-founder and Vice-President of China Trade Monitor, a law and policy reporting and analysis service, where she focuses on Chinese trade policies and laws. She will serve as a Senior Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Melbourne School of Law this Fall, to teach a class on Chinese trade and investment law. In addition, Huan serves on the Executive Board of TradeExperettes, a network of women trade experts from around the world, as the Director of Strategic Planning. Previously, she worked at the Cato Institute, where she researched U.S.-China trade relations, WTO negotiations and disputes. She holds an S.J.D. from the University of Kansas.
.
RESEARCH, EDUCATION, & ACADEMIC FREEDOM
Naima Green-Riley
Naima Green-Riley is an assistant professor jointly appointed in the Department of Politics and the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. She is also a non-resident fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. Her research has focused on Chinese foreign policy, public opinion, and international political communication, and has been supported by the Wilson Center China Fellowship, the Morris Abrams Award in International Relations, the USC Center on Public Diplomacy, the Smith Richardson Foundation, and the Ford Foundation. Previously, Naima was a Pickering Fellow and a Foreign Service Officer at the U.S. Department of State, serving first in Egypt and then in China. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from the Department of Government at Harvard University.
Rosie Levine
Rosie Levine is the Executive Director of the U.S.-China Education Trust, a non-profit organization that contributes to U.S.-China relations through a series of education and exchange programs. Previously, she was a senior program analyst working for the China program at the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP). She joined USIP after four years at the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, where she designed and implemented programs for their Public Intellectuals Program, and also oversaw a year-long project supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York to survey and report on the state of American research on China. Rosie lived in Beijing, China from 2014 to 2018, where she completed her Master’s degree in Chinese studies at Peking University’s Yenching Academy.
HUMAN RIGHTS, LAW, & DEMOCRACY
Preston Jordan Lim
Preston Jordan Lim is an assistant professor at Villanova University’s Charles Widger School of Law, where he teaches international and constitutional law. He clerked for the Justices of the Court of Appeal for Ontario and Chief Justice Richard Wagner of the Supreme Court of Canada. Preston’s research examines China’s relationship with international human rights law as well as Sino-Canadian relations. He also has worked as policy advisor to the Honourable Erin O’Toole, then Foreign Affairs Critic in the Parliament of Canada, and as counsel to a participant before Canada’s Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and Democratic Institutions. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was a student director of the Paul Tsai China Center.
Lucie Lu
Lucie Lu is a post-doctoral fellow currently at the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program, and next year (2024-25) at Princeton University’s Center on Contemporary China. Her research interests include international organization, human rights, and Chinese foreign policy and global governance, with a special focus on how China influences international norms. Lucie’s work has been supported by the Cline Center for Advanced Social Research and the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of Illinois, and by the Political Communication section of the American Political Science Association.
CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT
Michael Davidson
Michael Davidson is an assistant professor jointly appointed in the School of Global Policy and Strategy and the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of California, San Diego, where he also leads the Power Transformation Lab. His teaching and research focus on the engineering implications and institutional conflicts inherent in deploying low-carbon energy at scale to mitigate environmental harms. Michael has held a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, received a Fulbright Fellowship to study at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and worked on U.S.-China climate policy for the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Joanna Lewis
Joanna Lewis is Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor of Energy and Environment and Director of the Science, Technology and International Affairs Program (STIA) at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. At Georgetown she also runs the Clean Energy and Climate Research Group, and she is a faculty affiliate at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Joanna’s latest book Cooperating for the Climate: Learning from International Partnerships in China’s Clean Energy Sector was published by MIT Press in 2023. She is also the author of the award-winning Green Innovation in China (Columbia University Press, 2012) and was a Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report. Previously, she worked for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, the Asia Society, and the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
Kate Logan
Kate Logan is Associate Director of Climate at the Asia Society Policy Institute, where her work focuses on political strategies for enhancing climate and development progress across Asia. She is also a fellow with ASPI’s Center for China Analysis. Kate has over a decade of experience following and analyzing China’s climate, energy and environmental performance at think tanks, philanthropies, and NGOs, with particular expertise on U.S.-China climate cooperation, the role of non-state actors in environmental governance, and the politics of U.N. climate negotiations. She began her career as a Princeton-in-Asia fellow in Beijing. She holds a Masters of Environmental Management from the Yale School of the Environment.
TECHNOLOGY
AJ Cortese
AJ Cortese is a senior research associate at MacroPolo, the think tank of The Paulson Institute, where his research focuses on the political economy of Chinese technology, with special attention to industrial policy, evolving supply chains, and human capital. His work analyzes China’s strategic priorities in technology and the transition of its innovation ecosystem from internet-centric development to promoting deep tech and self-reliance. Previously, AJ worked in Beijing as an analyst for 36Kr Global and ICR Inc., researching technology companies and investment trends in China. He is a graduate of Fordham University.
Jeffrey Ding