Xiaoyu Pu is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research and publications focus on China’s foreign policy and international relations. His first book, Rebranding China: Contested Status Signaling in the Changing Global Order (Stanford 2019), examines how China manages its dual image as both a rising global power and a developing country. His new book project examines mixed signaling in China’s foreign and security policy. Xiaoyu was a fellow of the Public Intellectuals Program of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. He has also received fellowships from the Australian National University, the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington D.C., Fundação Getulio Vargas in Brazil, and the China and the World Program at Princeton University. He received his PhD from Ohio State.  

Matthew Mingey is an Associate Director at Rhodium Group, where he focuses on China’s economic diplomacy and international finance. He has led studies on China’s macroeconomic spillovers to emerging markets; the environmental, social, and governance impacts of China’s engagement in Southeast Asia; and comparative economic statecraft. Matt also manages Rhodium’s Sovereign Debt Negotiation database. His analysis has been featured in The Financial Times, The Economist, and the China-Global South Project. He holds a Masters from Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service.

Yingyi Ma is Professor of Sociology and Director of Asian/Asian American Studies at Syracuse University. She is also a non-resident Senior Fellow of The Brookings Institution’s Foreign Policy Program. Yingyi researches education and migration in the U.S. and China. Her award-winning book Ambitious and Anxious: How Chinese College Students Succeed and Struggle in American Higher Education was published by Columbia University Press in 2020. She is currently working on a new book, under contract also with Columbia, focusing on the post-graduation migration choices of Chinese graduates with American degrees. She is Chair of the Asian/Asian American Section of the American Sociological Association, and was a Public Intellectual Fellow of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. She received her PhD in sociology from Johns Hopkins University.

Ali Wyne is the senior research and advocacy advisor for U.S.-China relations at the International Crisis Group. He previously worked at Eurasia Group and the RAND Corporation. Ali’s book America’s Great-Power Opportunity: Revitalizing U.S. Foreign Policy to Meet the Challenges of Strategic Competition (Polity 2022) was named by The Spectator as one of its books of the year. He is a security fellow with the Truman National Security Project, a former term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a former David Rockefeller fellow with the Trilateral Commission. He has also been a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. He received his Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School.

Carl Minzneris Professor of Law at Fordham University, specializing in Chinese politics and law, and a Senior Fellow for China Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He has published widely in academic journals and media outlets. Carl’s book End of an Era: How China’s Authoritarian Revival is Undermining Its Rise was published by Oxford University Press in 2018. Previously he was an associate professor at the School of Law at Washington University in St. Louis, and before that he was senior counsel at the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. He has served as a Fulbright Scholar, a fellow in the Public Intellectuals Program of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and a Yale–China Association legal education fellow at the Northwest Institute of Politics and Law in Xi’an. He received his JD from Columbia Law School.

 

Joshua Busby is Professor of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin and a Distinguished Scholar at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law. From 2021-2023, he served as a Senior Advisor for Climate at the U.S. Department of Defense. Josh is the author of numerous studies on climate change, national security, and energy policy. His most recent book States and Nature: The Effects of Climate Change on Security was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. His current research includes the political economy of coal phasedown in China and India, as well as U.S.-China relations on critical minerals, and the clean energy transition. He received his PhD from Georgetown University.

Margaret Jackson is a senior associate (non-resident) with the Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. She served most recently as a Senior Counselor at the U.S. Department of Commerce, leading policy on U.S.-China commercial relations and U.S. clean technology competitiveness. Prior to her time in government, her research focused on China’s growing role in the clean energy transition and implications for the United States and its allies as they look to balance climate goals with economic security considerations. Previously, Maggie was the Deputy Director of the climate portfolio at the Atlantic Council; a Council on Foreign Relations-Hitachi International Affairs Fellow at the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan; and a Fulbright scholar at Tsinghua University’s Institute for Energy, Environment, and Economy, in Beijing. She began her career as a U.S. Navy officer based in the Indo-Pacific region. She holds a Master’s degree from Georgetown University and commissioned from the U.S. Naval Academy.

Kendra Schaefer is a partner at Trivium China, a Beijing-based policy consultancy, where she heads the company’s Tech Policy Division. She leads a team of analysts keeping investors, companies, and governments briefed on Chinese tech policy and regulation. Kendra also has served as a key expert for heads of state and Fortune 500 companies on China tech issues. Her personal areas of research interest include AI, the data economy, and Chinese government digital infrastructure systems. She is a non-resident fellow at the National Bureau of Asian Research. She was based primarily in China from 2002-2022. She began her career as a developer and user researcher in the early days of China’s internet boom.