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.  

Lewis Grow is a State Department Rusk Fellow at Georgetown University, and a career Foreign Service Officer. He most recently served as the Internal Unit Chief in U.S. Embassy Beijing’s Economic Section, where he led a 10-person team responsible for analyzing and reporting on China’s domestic economy. He previously served in Embassy Beijing as Macroeconomic and Finance Officer from 2021-2024 and as a Consular Officer from 2012-2014. In addition to tours in Mission China, Lewis also has served in Baghdad, Jakarta, and Washington, DC, including a detail assignment to the State Department’s Office of Investment Affairs, where he worked on the team representing the State Department within the interagency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). Prior to joining the Foreign Service, Lewis worked in international development, including more than four years supporting the U.S. government’s Iraq Transition Initiative. He received his M.A. from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Carrie Shu Shang is an Associate Professor of Business Law at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and an affiliated scholar of the Center for East Asian Legal Studies at UC Law San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings). Her research primarily focuses on Chinese enterprises’ international legal compliance and the impact of evolving trade relationships on their operations. Carrie also has served as an expert witness in multiple proceedings. She is a Director of the Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Center, and previously was the Chief Representative of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre’s PRC Office. She holds a J.D. from the University of Southern California.

Emily Matson is an adjunct professor in Georgetown University’s Department of History and a professorial lecturer at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. She is currently finalizing her first manuscript, under contract with the University of Michigan Press, which examines Northeastern Chinese scholarship on China’s experience of World War II. Emily was a China Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, and is the education mentor for this year’s cohort of the U.S.-China Education Trust’s initiative “Students Finding Common Ground.” She is a Stephen M. Kellen term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She received her PhD in modern Chinese history from the University of Virginia.

Elizabeth Donkervoort is the co-Founder of the China Strategic Risks Institute. She is a democracy and human rights expert with extensive experience countering digital authoritarianism and transnational repression. Committed to strengthening democratic resilience worldwide, Elizabeth has over the course of her career led programs at the American Bar Association’s Center for Global Programs, the International Republican Institute, and Freedom House. She serves on the board of NüVoices, an editorial collective supporting underrepresented voices in China-focused work, and is a Fellow with the Montreal Institute for Global Security. She received her JD and a Master of Asia Pacific Policy Studies from the University of British Columbia 

Jake Werner is Director of the East Asia Program at the Quincy Institute. His research examines the emergence of great power conflict between the United States and China, with a particular view towards rebuilding constructive bilateral economic relations. Previously, Jake was a Postdoctoral Global China Research Fellow at Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center, a Harper-Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago, a Fulbright Scholar at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan, and a Fulbright-Hays Fellow at East China Normal University in Shanghai. He received his PhD in history from the University of Chicago.

Kyle Chan is a postdoctoral researcher in the Sociology Department at Princeton University and an adjunct researcher at the RAND Corporation. His research focuses on industrial policy, clean technology, and infrastructure development in China and India, drawing on several years of fieldwork in both countries. Kyle has testified as an expert witness on China’s industrial policy before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. He also contributed to the UN Industrial Development Organization’s project on the “Future of Industrialization.” He received his PhD in sociology from Princeton University.

Abigail Coplin is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Science, Technology, and Society at Vassar College. Her research analyzes the development of China’s biotechnology and agrobiotechnology industries to unpack how scientific innovation, business, and regime legitimacy co-evolve in the contemporary PRC; how the Chinese state contends with scientific experts and incorporates expertise in its governance schemes; and how China’s pursuit of high-tech development is restructuring relationships among Chinese society, industry, and the party-state. She is currently completing a book manuscript entitled Domesticating Biotechnological Innovation: Science, Market, and the State in Post-Socialist China. Abby was a fellow of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations’ Public Intellectuals Program, and also held fellowships with the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for the Study of Contemporary China, the Yale Council on East Asian Studies, and the Fulbright Association. She received her PhD from Columbia University.