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
Charlene Barshefsky
Chair, Parkside Global Advisors;
Former U.S. Trade Representative (1997-2001)
Honorary Chairs
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
Directors
Jonathan Auerbach
Former EVP & Chief Strategy, Growth & Data Officer, PayPal (2015-2024)
Andy Blocker
Global Head of Public Policy & Strategic Partnerships, Invesco
Olivier Brandicourt
Senior Advisor at Blackstone Life Sciences; Director of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc., BenevolentAI S.A., and AvenCell Therapeutics, Inc.;
BeiGene, board member
Amy P. Celico
Partner,
Albright Stonebridge Group – Dentons Global Advisors
John S. Chen
Executive Chairman & CEO, BlackBerry (Retired)
Peter M. Cleveland
Senior Vice President
Global Government Affairs, TSMC
Ray Dalio
Founder, CIO Mentor, and Member of the Bridgewater Board
Nelson G. Dong
Retired Partner and Former Head of National Security Group,
Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Joseph F. Dunford, Jr.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 2015-2019; General, Marine Corps (Retired)
Elizabeth C. Economy
Hargrove Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution,
Stanford University
William E. Ford
Chairman and CEO, General Atlantic
M. Taylor Fravel
Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science; Director, Security Studies Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mary E. Gallagher
Marilyn Keough Dean of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame
Benjamin D. Harburg
Managing Partner,
MSA Capital
Ming Hsieh
Chairman & CEO, Fulgent Genetics
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
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
Elizabeth D. Knup
Senior Fellow, Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs
Margaret K. Lewis
Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Institutional Operations and Professor of Law, Seton Hall University School of Law
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
LING Hai
President, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East & Africa
Mastercard
Gary F. Locke
Chairman, Locke Global Strategies Governor of Washington, 1997-2005; U.S. Secretary of Commerce, 2009-2011; U.S. Ambassador, People’s Republic of China, 2011-2014
Samuel J. Locklear III
Commander,
U.S. Pacific Command, 2012-2015;
Admiral, U.S. Navy (Retired)
Anja Manuel
Co-founder & Partner,
Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC
Ken Miller
President & CEO,
Ken Miller Capital
Sheldon Pang
Vice Chairman,
Freepoint Commodities LLC
Yvonne Pei
SVP, Government Affairs, Greater China,
The Walt Disney Company International
A. Robert Pietrzak
Partner (Retired),
Sidley Austin
Joshua C. Ramo
Chairman & CEO
Sornay, LLC
Clark T. Randt, Jr.
U.S. Ambassador, People’s Republic of China, 2001-2009
Jason W. Rekate
Global Head of Corporate Banking, Citigroup
Daniel H. Rosen
Co-Founder and China Practice Leader,
Rhodium Group
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
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, 1996-1998
Rob Speyer
President & CEO
Tishman Speyer
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
Ernie L. Thrasher
CEO & Chief Marketing Officer, Xcoal Energy & Resources
Jing Tsu
John M. Schiff Professor of East Asian Languages and Literature & Comparative Literature Chair; Council on East Asian Studies; Yale University
Jessica Chen Weiss
David M. Lampton Professor of China Studies, Johns Hopkins SAIS
Mark Wiedman
Senior Managing Director,
Head of the Global Client Business, BlackRock
Jerry Yang
Founding Partner
AME Cloud Ventures
Nancy Yao
Assistant Dean, David Geffen School of Drama at Yale; Assistant Professor Adjunct; Independent Director, abrdn-managed Closed End Funds
Peng Zhao
CEO,
Citadel Securities
Chair Emeritus
W. Michael Blumenthal
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1977-1979