The National Committee’s board of directors is composed of leading scholars, corporate executives, and former policymakers, who generously give of their time and expertise.
Chair
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Charlene Barshefsky
Chair, Parkside Global Advisors;
Former U.S. Trade Representative (1997-2001)
Honorary Chairs
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Carla A. Hills
Chair & CEO, Hills & Company, International Consultants;
Senior Counselor, Albright Stonebridge Group;
U.S. Trade Representative, 1989-1993;
U.S. Secretary of Housing & Urban Development, 1975-1977
Executive Vice Chair
Vice Chair
Treasurer
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Keith W. Abell
Chairman, N4XT Experiences Inc., Los Angeles Fashion Week Enterprises Inc , and Beauty Days, Inc.
Directors
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Jonathan Auerbach
Former EVP & Chief Strategy, Growth & Data Officer, PayPal (2015-2024)
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Andy Blocker
Global Head of Public Policy & Strategic Partnerships, Invesco
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Olivier Brandicourt
Senior Advisor at Blackstone Life Sciences; Director of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc., BenevolentAI S.A., and AvenCell Therapeutics, Inc.;
BeiGene, board member
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Amy P. Celico
Partner,
Albright Stonebridge Group – Dentons Global Advisors
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John S. Chen
Executive Chairman & CEO, BlackBerry (Retired)
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Peter M. Cleveland
Senior Vice President
Global Government Affairs, TSMC
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Ray Dalio
Founder, CIO Mentor, and Member of the Bridgewater Board
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Nelson G. Dong
Of Counsel, Co-Head of the National Security Group
Dorsey & Whitney
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Joseph F. Dunford, Jr.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 2015-2019; General, Marine Corps (retired)
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Elizabeth C. Economy
Hargrove Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution,
Stanford University
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William E. Ford
Chairman and CEO, General Atlantic
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M. Taylor Fravel
Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science; Director, Security Studies Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Mary E. Gallagher
Marilyn Keough Dean of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame
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Benjamin D. Harburg
Managing Partner,
MSA Capital
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Ming Hsieh
Chairman & CEO, Fulgent Genetics
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Jon M. Huntsman, Jr.
Vice Chairman and President, Strategic Growth, Mastercard; U.S. Ambassador, Russia, 2017-2019, People’s Republic of China, 2009-2011, Singapore, 1992-1993; Governor of Utah, 2005-2009
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Merit E. Janow
Independent Chair of the Board of Directors of Mastercard; Former Dean, School of International and Public Affairs & Professor of Practice, International Economic Law and International Affairs, Columbia University
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Elizabeth D. Knup
Former Regional Director, China,
Ford Foundation
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Margaret K. Lewis
Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Institutional Operations and Professor of Law, Seton Hall University School of Law
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Cheng Li
Professor of Political Science and Founding Director of the Centre on Governance of China and the World at the University of Hong Kong; Nonresident Senior Fellow – Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton China Center
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LING Hai
President, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East & Africa
Mastercard
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Gary F. Locke
Governor of Washington, 1997-2005; U.S. Secretary of Commerce, 2009-2011; U.S. Ambassador, People’s Republic of China, 2011-2014
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Samuel J. Locklear III
Commander,
U.S. Pacific Command, 2012-2015;
Admiral, U.S. Navy (retired)
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Anja Manuel
Co-founder & Partner,
Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC
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Ken Miller
President & CEO,
Ken Miller Capital
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Sheldon Pang
Vice Chairman,
Freepoint Commodities LLC
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Yvonne Pei
SVP, Government Affairs, Greater China,
The Walt Disney Company International
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A. Robert Pietrzak
Partner (retired),
Sidley Austin
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Joshua C. Ramo
Chairman & CEO
Sornay, LLC
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Clark T. Randt, Jr.
President,
Randt & Co. LLC;
U.S. Ambassador, People’s Republic of China, 2001-2009
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Jason W. Rekate
Global Head of Corporate Banking, Citigroup
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Daniel H. Rosen
Co-Founder and China Practice Leader,
Rhodium Group
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J. Stapleton Roy
Distinguished Fellow & Founding Director Emeritus, Kissinger Institute on China and the United States, Wilson Center; U.S. Ambassador, People’s Republic of China, 1991-1995
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David Sandalow
Inaugural Fellow, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University; Under Secretary and Assistant Secretary of Energy, 2009-2013; Assistant Secretary of State, 1999-2001; Senior Director, National Security Council, 1996-1999
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Rob Speyer
President & CEO
Tishman Speyer
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Susan A. Thornton
Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law School; Acting Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, 2017-2018
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Ernie L. Thrasher
CEO & Chief Marketing Officer, Xcoal Energy & Resources
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Jing Tsu
John M. Schiff Professor of East Asian Languages and Literature & Comparative Literature Chair; Council on East Asian Studies; Yale University
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Jessica Chen Weiss
David M. Lampton Professor of China Studies, Johns Hopkins SAIS
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Mark Wiedman
Senior Managing Director,
Head of the Global Client Business, BlackRock
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Robert H. Xiao
CEO,
Perfect World Co., Ltd
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Nancy Yao
Lecturer in Governance, Yale University; Independent Director, abrdn-managed Closed End Funds
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Jerry Yang
Founding Partner
AME Cloud Ventures
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Peng Zhao
CEO,
Citadel Securities
Chair Emeritus
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W. Michael Blumenthal
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1977-1979