Our Advisory Board
Our Advisory Board consists of prominent foreign policy thought leaders, academics, and business leaders in emerging markets.
Members of our Advisory Board help shape our research, participate in private meetings, webcasts, and are available to our clients for one-on-one consultations. Access to our Advisory Board provides clients with the latest thinking and unique insights on emerging markets not available in the public domain.
Dr. Rawi Abdelal
Dr. Abdelal is a professor at Harvard Business School. His book, National Purpose in the World Economy, won the 2002 Shulman Prize as the outstanding book on the international relations of eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
Ambassador Morton Abramowitz
Ambassador Abramowitz served as U.S. Ambassador to Turkey. He is also a retired President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Ambassador Kenneth Adelman
Ambassador Adelman served as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and as the Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
Ambassador Jeffrey Bader
Ambassador Bader served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian & Pacific Affairs and Assistant U.S. Trade Representative responsible for China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mongolia.
Dr. Elizabeth Economy
Dr. Economy is the Director of Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Her expertise includes China's domestic and foreign policy and global environmental issues.
Sir Peter Heap
Sir Peter Heap is a former British Ambassador to Brazil and served senior posts in Hong Kong, Macau, and West Africa.
Dr. Jing Huang
Dr Huang is Assistant Professor and inaugural Director
of the Center for Global Health Studies at the John C.
Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International
Relations, Seton Hall University, where he developed
the first academic concentration among American
schools of international affairs that explicitly addresses
the foreign policy and security aspects of health issues.
Dr. Yanzhong Huang
Dr Huang is Assistant Professor and inaugural Director of the Center for Global Health Studies at the John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University, where he developed the first academic concentration among American schools of international affairs that explicitly addresses the foreign policy and security aspects of health issues.
Dr. Robert Kapp
Dr. Kapp served as president of the US-China Business Council from April, 1994 to November, 2004.
Dr. Stephen D. Krasner
Dr. Krasner is the former Head of Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State in the administration George W. Bush. He is an expert on geopolitics and International political economy.
Joshua Kurlantzick
Mr. Kurlantzick's new book, Charm Offensive, How China's Soft Power is Transforming the World focuses on how China uses its soft power to influence other countries in the developing world.
Dr. Kenneth B. Lieberthal
Dr. Lieberthal served as Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Senior Director for Asia at the National Security Council during he Clinton Administration.
Professor Xiaobo Lü
Professor Lu is a Professor of Political Science at
Barnard College and Columbia University, and is the
most recent former Director of the Weatherhead East
Asian Institute. Professor Lü is a member of Council on
Foreign Relations, Committee of 100, and the National
Committee on US-China Relations. He is currently
writing a book on the rise of the regulatory state in
China.
Dr. James Mulvenon
Dr. Mulvenon serves as Deputy Director, Advanced Analysis at DGI's Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis.
Dr. Barry Naughton
Dr. Naughton teaches at the University of California, San Diego and is an authority on the Chinese economy, with an emphasis on issues relating to industry, trade, finance and China's transition to a market economy.
Dr. Minxin Pei
Dr. Pei is a senior associate and director of the China Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Ambassador Steven Pifer
Ambassador Pifer served as U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine and as National Security Senior Director for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia.
Ambassador Nicholas Platt
Ambassador Platt served as U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, Philippines, and Zambia, and as a high level diplomat in Canada, China, Hong Kong, and Japan. He is President Emeritus of the Asia Society in New York City.
Dr. Adam Segal
Dr. Segal is the Greenberg senior fellow for China Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. His expertise includes technology and development in China and India; East Asian security; and Chinese and domestic and foreign policy.
Dr. Debora Spar
Dr. Spar is the Spangler Family Professor at Harvard Business School, where she works on issues of business-government relations and the political environment of international commerce.