Manjari Chatterjee Miller

Manjari Chatterjee Miller is professor of international relations and the inaugural Munk Chair in Global India at the Munk School. She is a senior fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations and an associate at the Asia Center, Harvard University. Dr. Miller is the author of  Why Nations Rise: Narratives and the Path to Great Power  (2021, shortlisted for the 2022 Hedley Bull Prize in International Relations), Wronged by Empire: Post-Imperial Ideology and Foreign Policy in India and China  (2013), and the co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of China-India Relations  (2020). 

Previously, Dr. Miller was a tenured associate professor at Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies and has held fellowships at Harvard and Princeton. She has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed and policy journals, and chapters in edited books. A frequent contributor to media and policy outlets in the United States and abroad, from 2020 to 2024 Dr. Miller was a columnist for the Hindustan Times. She received a B.A. from the University of Delhi, an MSc. from the University of London, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. She was a post-doctoral fellow in the China and the World Program at Princeton University. 

Liu Zongyi

Liu Zongyi is a senior fellow and the director of the Center for South Asia Studies at the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SISS). He also serves as the director of the research office of major power relations at the Institute for International Strategic and Security Studies (SISS) and the director of the Centre for China Studies (Bangladesh). His research focuses on India’s economy and foreign policy, China’s foreign policy, BRICS, and the G-2. Dr. Liu has published extensively in Chinese and international journals and has contributed over 300 commentaries in both Chinese and English to various newspapers and magazines. Dr. Liu has been a visiting fellow at institutions including the German Development Institute, OECD, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Indian National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, and the Institute of Strategic Studies of Islamabad. 

Dr. Liu holds a B.A. in economics from Shandong University of Finance, an M.A. in Chinese and American studies from The John Hopkins University Nanjing Center, and a Ph.D. in international relations from China Foreign Affairs University. 

Mark W. Frazier

Mark W. Frazier is a China-India scholar whose research interests focus on comparative urbanization, labor politics, and citizenship in China and India. He is a professor of politics at The New School (TNS), co-director of the India China Institute (ICI), and a fellow in the NCUSCR Public Intellectuals Program. Before joining TNS, Dr. Frazier was a Fulbright Research Fellow in China and held faculty positions at the University of Oklahoma and at Lawrence University in Wisconsin. He is co-editor of the forthcoming book, Constrained Expertise in India and China: Knowledge and Power in Policymaking  (Amsterdam University Press, 2025) developed from an ICI project on the politics of expertise. His 2019 book, The Power of Place: Contentious Politics in Twentieth Century Shanghai and Bombay  (Cambridge University Press), explored how urban geography, political institutions, and historical legacies shaped patterns of protest and labor activism in the two cities. He has written op-ed pieces for The New York Times, Daedalus, and The Diplomat.  Dr. Frazier holds a Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley.  

Deborah Seligsohn

Deborah Seligsohn is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Villanova University and a Woodrow Wilson Institute China Fellow. Her research focuses on Chinese politics; U.S.-China relations; and public health, energy, and environmental politics in China and India. Previously, she worked in both the NGO and government sectors on public health, science, climate, and the environment. From 2003 to 2007, she served as the Environment, Science, Technology, and Health Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. From 2007 to 2012, she served as the Beijing-based principal advisor to the World Resources Institute’s China Energy and Climate Program. In addition to publishing in academic journals, her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Financial Times, The South China Morning Post, and more. Dr. Seligsohn received her Ph.D. in political science and international affairs from the University of California, San Diego. 

Scott Moore

Scott Moore is a political scientist, university administrator, and former policymaker whose career focuses on China, sustainability, and emerging technology. As Director of China Programs and Strategic Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Moore designs, implements, and highlights innovative, high-impact global research initiatives. Previously, Dr. Moore was a water resources management specialist at the World Bank Group. He also served as the Environment, Science, Technology, and Health Officer for China at the U.S. Department of State, where he worked extensively on the Paris climate agreement. Before entering public service, Dr. Moore was a Giorgio Ruffolo Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Belfer Center at Harvard University. Dr. Moore holds doctoral and master’s degrees from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and an undergraduate degree from Princeton. He is a fellow with the National Committee’s Public Intellectuals Program. 

Gil Guerra

Gil Guerra is an immigration policy analyst at the Niskanen Center, where he focuses on immigration and foreign policy, migrant integration, and demographic trends at the U.S.-Mexico border. He is also the 2024 Latin America fellow with the Rising Experts Program at Young Professionals in Foreign Policy. 

Prior to joining Niskanen, Mr. Guerra completed fellowships with the Aspen Institute, the Hudson Institute, and the Hertog Foundation. His academic work has been featured by the Society for Terrorism Research, and his writing has been published by Foreign Policy, Charged Affairs, and The Dispatch.

Mr. Guerra was a 2023 George J. Mitchell Scholar, earning a Master of Arts in global security and borders at Queen’s University Belfast. He holds a Bachelor of Arts with high honors in political science with a minor in philosophy from Swarthmore College.  

Meredith Oyen

Meredith Oyen is an associate professor of U.S. history and U.S. diplomatic history at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She specializes in the history of Sino-American relations, focusing her research on the role of migrants, transnational networks, and nongovernmental organizations in bilateral relations in the twentieth century. Prior to UMBC, she taught for two years at the Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American studies. Her book, The Diplomacy of Migration: Transnational Lives and the Making of U.S.-Chinese Relations in the Cold War, was published by Cornell University Press in 2015.  

Dr. Oyen won the 2017 CAHSS (College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Science) Summer Faculty Research Fellowship (SFRF) from the Dresher Center at UMBC for her current project: Shanghai Survivors: World War Two’s Displaced Persons in Asia and the International Politics of Refugee Resettlement. She holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Georgetown University. 

Robert D. Blackwill

Robert D. Blackwill is the Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).  He served as deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security advisor for strategic planning under President George W. Bush, presidential envoy to Iraq, and ambassador to India from 2001 to 2003. He is the recipient of the Padma Bhushan Award from the government of India.

In addition to Lost Decade, he wrote War by Other Means: Geoeconomics and Statecraft (2016), and Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States, and the World (2013). His CFR Special Reports include The United States, China, and Taiwan: A Strategy to Prevent War (2021); Implementing Grand Strategy Toward China: Twenty-Two U.S. Policy Prescriptions (2020); Xi Jinping on the Global Stage (2016); and A New U.S. Grand Strategy Toward China (2015).

Richard Fontaine

Richard Fontaine is the chief executive officer of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), having previously served as president (2012–19) and senior fellow (2009–12). Prior to joining CNAS, he was foreign policy advisor to Senator John McCain during his 2008 campaign and the minority deputy staff director on the Senate Armed Services Committee. Earlier he served as associate director for Near Eastern Affairs at the National Security Council (2003–04).  He began his foreign policy career as a staff member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, focusing on the Middle East and South Asia. He also spent a year teaching English in Japan.

Mr. Fontaine currently serves as executive director of the Trilateral Commission and on the Defense Policy Board.

A summa cum laude graduate of Tulane University, Mr. Fontaine holds an MA in international affairs from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Noah Barkin

Noah Barkin is a senior advisor in Rhodium Group’s China practice, based in Berlin, where he focuses on Europe-China relations and transatlantic China policy. He is also a visiting senior fellow in the Indo-Pacific Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and creator of the popular “Watching China in Europe” newsletter. Previously, he worked as a bureau chief, regional editor and Europe correspondent for Reuters, based in Berlin, Paris, London and New York. He has also written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, Foreign Policy, Politico, and other leading European publications. Mr. Barkin is a regular speaker and moderator on European foreign policy issues, is quoted widely in the press, and is the author of a book on the Euro. He has been a visiting fellow at the Mercator Institute for China Studies in Berlin and the American-German Institute in Washington.

A native Californian, Mr. Barkin has a bachelor’s degree in political science and French from the University of California at Berkeley and a master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.  

Janka Oertel

Janka Oertel is the director of the Asia Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations. She previously worked as a senior fellow in the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States’ Berlin office, where she focused on transatlantic China policy including on emerging technologies, Chinese foreign policy, and security in East Asia. Prior to joining GMF, she served as a program director at the Körber Foundation’s Berlin office.   

Dr. Oertel holds a Ph.D. from the University of Jena (Germany). She was a visiting fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP Berlin) and worked at United Nations Headquarters in New York as a Carlo-Schmid-Fellow. She has published widely on topics related to EU-China relations, U.S.-China relations, security in the Asia-Pacific region, Chinese foreign policy, 5G and emerging technologies, as well as climate cooperation.  

Jason M. Kelly

Jason M. Kelly is a modern China historian focusing on 20^th and 21^st century Chinese foreign relations, commerce, and diplomacy, U.S.-China relations, and East Asian international history. He is currently a senior lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Cardiff University, an associate in research at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and a fellow in the NCUSCR Public Intellectuals Program.

Before joining Cardiff University in 2022, Dr. Kelly was an assistant professor in the Strategy & Policy Department at the U.S. Naval War College (2018-2022), and an Ernest May Fellow in History and Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School (2016-2018). Prior to becoming a historian, he was a foreign service officer posted to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. Dr. Kelly’s first book, Market Maoists: The Communist Origins of China’s Capitalist Ascent (2021), examines the overlooked commercial relationships that linked the Chinese Communist Party to international capitalism from the early days of the Pacific War to the waning years of the Cultural Revolution.

Dr. Kelly has a B.A. from Dartmouth College, an M.A. from Yale University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Cornell University.

Charlene Barshefsky

Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky, chair of Parkside Global Advisors, Washington, D.C., advises multinational companies on their global market access, investment, and negotiation strategies. She previously served as senior international partner at WilmerHale where she chaired the firm’s international trade, investment, and market access group. She joined WilmerHale after serving as the United States Trade Representative from 1997 to 2001 and Acting and Deputy USTR from 1993 to 1996. Ambassador Barshefsky is best known globally as the architect and negotiator of China’s WTO agreement, which opened China’s economy as a worldwide market.

Ambassador Barshefsky has served on an array of corporate boards, and is a trustee of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a director of the Climate Leadership Council, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Jessica Teets

Jessica C. Teets is a professor of political science at Middlebury College, Templeton Fellow for the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, China Program Fellow at the Wilson Center, and a fellow in the NCUSCR Public Intellectuals Program.

Dr. Teets’ research focuses on governance in authoritarian regimes, especially the role of civic participation. She is the author of Civil Society under Authoritarianism: The China Model (2014) and editor (with William Hurst) of Local Governance Innovation in China: Experimentation, Diffusion, and Defiance (2014). She is currently working on a new book (with Dr. Xiang Gao) on changing governance under Xi Jinping, and an edited volume developing a theory of how to lobby dictators (with Dr. Max Grömping).

Professor Teets received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland, master’s degrees from the University of Chicago and the University of Colorado, and doctorate from the University of Colorado.

Jack Zhang

Jack Zhang is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Kansas (KU) and director of the KU Trade War Lab. He is a Public Intellectuals Program fellow with the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. Dr. Zhang’s research explores the political economy of trade and conflict in East Asia. He is building a new framework for the dynamics of political competition under economic interdependence with the aid of new data. His newest project assesses the political participation of American businesses in the section 301 hearings process to understand why business interests were unable to restrain the Trump administration’s escalation of trade tensions with China. In another project, he and his co-authors explore the political backlash against Chinese economic competition and its implications for the escalating trade war between the United States and China.

He earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego and his BA from Duke University.

Mary Gallagher

Mary E. Gallagher is the Amy and Alan Lowenstein Professor of Democracy, Democratization, and Human Rights at the University of Michigan, and director of the International Institute. She was formerly director of the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies (2008-2020). Dr. Gallagher’s most recent book is Authoritarian Legality in China: Law, Workers and the State. She is also the author or editor of several other books, including Contagious Capitalism: Globalization and the Politics of Labor in China.

In addition to her academic research, Dr. Gallagher has consulted with governments, international organizations, and corporations on China’s domestic politics, censorship and propaganda system, labor and workplace conditions, and academic collaboration with China. She is a director of the National Committee, and a fellow in the Committee’s Public Intellectuals Program.

Professor Gallagher received her Ph.D. from Princeton University and her B.A. from Smith College. She was an exchange student at Nanjing University in fall 1989.

Richard Bush

Richard Bush is a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, specializing on East Asia, especially China and Taiwan. Joining Brookings in 2002 as a senior fellow and director of the Center for Northeast Asia Policy Studies, Dr. Bush held the Michael H. Armacost Chair and the Chen-fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies. He retired in 2020.

Dr. Bush served in the U.S. government for 19 years, first on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs staff, then as National Intelligence Officer for East Asia and member of the National Intelligence Council, and later as chairman and managing director of the American Institute in Taiwan.

Dr. Bush received his B.A. from Lawrence University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University.

Bonnie Glaser

Bonnie S. Glaser is managing director of the German Marshall Fund’s (GMF) Indo-Pacific program. She was previously director of GMF’s Asia program, and senior adviser for Asia and the director of the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Ms. Glaser has long worked at the intersection of Asia-Pacific geopolitics and U.S. policy. 

Ms. Glaser has published widely in academic and policy journals, including the Washington Quarterly, China Quarterly, Asian Survey, International Security, Contemporary Southeast Asia, American Foreign Policy Interests, Far Eastern Economic Review, and Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, as well as in leading newspapers such as the New York Times and International Herald Tribune and in various edited volumes on Asian security.

Ms. Glaser received her B.A. from Boston University and her M.A. from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. She is a participant in the Committee’s Maritime Issues Track II Dialogue.

Adrian Hearn

Adrian Hearn (University of Melbourne) studies international relations from the ground up. Of English and Brazilian background, he has lived in the United States, Australia, Cuba, and China. Professor Hearn teaches courses on China-Latin America agricultural and economic relations at universities including Renmin, Tongji, Berkeley, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia. His policy papers have been published by the European Commission, Chatham House, and the Inter-American Dialogue; his books include Diaspora and Trust: Cuba, Mexico and the Rise of China (2016), The Changing Currents of Transpacific Integration (2016), China Engages Latin America (2011), and Cuba: Religion, Social Capital, and Development (2008).

Alongside his academic work, Professor Hearn’s community arts project Suns of Mercury produces multicultural music, films, and performances.