Regina Abrami

Regina Abrami is the Chang Sun Term Professor and Faculty Director of the Global Program at the University of Pennsylvania’s Lauder Institute of Management & International Studies. She is also the Faculty Director of Perry World House’s Graduate Associates Program. Before joining the Lauder Institute, she was on the Harvard Business School faculty for more than a decade. At Penn’s Wharton School, she continues to teach a course on China and Global Competition. Her China-related research and teaching have focused on the origins and impact of Chinese private business, and China’s global impact and its economic relations with the world.

Jude Blanchette

Jude Blanchette is the Distinguished Tang Chair in China Research and the inaugural director of the RAND China Research Center. Previously, he held the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and before that served as engagement director at the Conference Board’s China Center for Economics and Business in Beijing. His book, China’s New Red Guards: The Return of Radicalism and the Rebirth of Mao Zedong, was published by Oxford University Press in 2019. Blanchette was a public intellectual fellow of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and serves on the board of the American Mandarin Society.

Da Wei

Da Wei is Director of the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS) and a professor in the Department of International Relations in the School of Social Science at Tsinghua University. With a research focus on China-US relations, as well as US security and foreign policy, he has nearly three decades of experience in the academic and policy communities in China. Previously, he served as Director of the Institute of American Studies at the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR) from 2013 to 2017. He has authored numerous policy papers addressed to the Chinese government and published dozens of academic papers in journals spanning China, the United States, and other countries. He also leads the Youth Branch of the Chinese Association of American Studies.

Gerard DiPippo

Gerard DiPippo is an associate director of the RAND China Research Center and a senior researcher in RAND’s D.C. office. Prior to joining RAND, he was the Senior Geo-Economics Analyst at Bloomberg Economics. His research focuses on China’s economy, U.S.-China economic relations, industrial policy, and financial issues. He was previously a Senior Fellow in the Economics Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Before that, DiPippo served 11 years in the U.S. Intelligence Community, including at the Central Intelligence Agency and as a Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Economic Issues at the National Intelligence Council. He has a B.A. in economics and philosophy from Dartmouth.

Evan A. Feigenbaum

Evan A. Feigenbaum is vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he oversees research in Washington, Beijing and New Delhi on a dynamic region encompassing both East Asia and South Asia. He is also the 2019-20 James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professor at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. Initially an academic with a PhD in Chinese politics from Stanford University, Feigenbaum’s career has spanned government service, think tanks, the private sector, and three major regions of Asia.

Avery Goldstein

Avery Goldstein is the David M. Knott Professor Emeritus of Global Politics and International Relations in the Political Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania. At Penn, he was also the inaugural director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China, and Associate Director of the Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics. His research focuses on international relations, security studies, and Chinese politics. He is the author of Rising to the Challenge: China’s Grand Strategy and International Security (Stanford University Press, 2005), Deterrence and Security in the 21st Century: China, Britain, France and the Enduring Legacy of the Nuclear Revolution (Stanford University Press, 2000), and From Bandwagon to Balance of Power Politics: Structural Constraints and Politics in China, 1949-1978 (Stanford University Press, 1991). He is also a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.

Jennifer Hendrixson White

Jennifer Hendrixson White is an expert on national security issues related to China and the Indo-Pacific, international economics, artificial intelligence and emerging technology. She served in senior positions across the U.S. government from 2010 to 2025, working on a range of Asian security, economic, and technology issues at the State Department, the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, the U.S. House of Representatives, and the U.S. Senate, as well as at the Pentagon, USINDOPACOM, and the National Security Council. She is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for New American Security and the Founder and Managing Partner of Scalare Advisors.

Scott Moore

Scott Moore is Director of China Programs and Strategic Initiatives at Penn Global and Practice Professor in Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests center on environmental sustainability, technology, and international relations. Previously, he was a Young Professional and Water Resources Management Specialist at the World Bank Group, and Environment, Science, Technology, and Health Officer for China at the U.S. Department of State, where he worked extensively on the Paris Agreement. His latest book is China’s Next Act: How Sustainability and Technology are Reshaping China’s Rise and the World’s Future (Oxford, 2022).

Amanda Morrison

Amanda Morrison served as the Project Associate from 2020-2025, in which capacity she helped to prepare the Project’s written outputs and produced Project webinars. She is currently pursuing a JD at Stanford Law School as a Knight-Hennessy Scholar. Previously, she led development of documentary and scripted projects at Oscar-winning production company Little Monster Films, and also worked as a producer on a Netflix series with Ark Media. Her independent documentary about a prominent Chinese feminist activist is currently in production. Amanda also has worked as a researcher for NYU’s U.S.-Asia Law Institute, and published articles in Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, and The China Project. She completed a Masters in Global Affairs at Tsinghua University as a Schwarzman Scholar, and received her AB from Princeton University in international relations focused on East Asia, authoritarian politics, gender, and media.

Margaret Myers

Margaret Myers is Managing Director of the SAIS Institute for America, China, and the Future of Global Affairs, Senior Advisor to the Inter-American Dialogue, and Senior Advisor to the United States Institute of Peace. She has published extensively on China’s relations with the Latin America and Caribbean region, including in her co-edited volumes, The Political Economy of China–Latin America Relations in the New Millennium (Routledge, 2016) and The Changing Currents of Transpacific Integration: China, the TPP, and Beyond (Lynne Rienner, 2016). She has testified before Congress on the China-Latin America relationship and is regularly featured in major domestic and international media. She also teaches at Georgetown University and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Myers previously worked as a Latin America analyst and China analyst for the US Department of Defense. She was the recipient of a Freeman fellowship for China studies, a Fulbright Specialist grant to research China-Colombia relations in Bogotá, and a Woodrow Wilson Center fellowship.

Helen Toner

Helen Toner is the Interim Executive Director at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET). She previously worked as a Senior Research Analyst at Open Philanthropy, where she advised policymakers and grantmakers on AI policy and strategy. Between working at Open Philanthropy and joining CSET, Helen lived in Beijing, studying the Chinese AI ecosystem as a Research Affiliate of Oxford University’s Center for the Governance of AI. She has written for Foreign Affairs, the Economist, TIME, and other outlets about U.S.-China competition and AI policy, as well as testifying before several Congressional committees.

Paul Triolo

Paul Triolo is Senior Vice President for China and Technology Policy Lead at Albright Stonebridge Group. He advises clients in technology, financial services, and other sectors as they navigate complex political and regulatory matters in China and around the world. An expert in global technology policy, he was most recently founder, Practice Head, and Managing Director of the Geo-Technology practice at Eurasia Group. Previously, he spent more than 25 years in senior positions in the U.S. government, analyzing China’s rise as a technology power and advising senior policymakers on a broad set of technology-related issues. At the beginning of his career, he worked as an engineer for a semiconductor testing firm in Silicon Valley.

Graham Webster

Graham Webster is a Research Scholar at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, where he leads the DigiChina Project and also researches and teaches on technology, Chinese policy and development, and U.S.–China relations. Previously, he worked at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center as a senior fellow and lecturer, responsible for Track 2 dialogues between the U.S. and China, co-teaching seminars on contemporary China, leading programming on cyberspace in U.S.–China relations, and writing extensively on the South China Sea and the law of the sea. He also served as a China digital economy fellow at New America.