Prof. Graham Allison is the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at Harvard University and a leading analyst of national security with special interests in nuclear weapons, Russia, China, and decision-making. He was the Founding Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and until 2017, served as the Director of Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.  He currently directs projects at the Center focused on avoiding great power wars and applying history to today's challenges.

Bruce Andrews is the Senior Vice President and Chief Government Affairs officer at Intel Corporation. He leads Intel’s global government affairs group and oversees the company’s government affairs and public policy functions and strategies. Mr. Andrews is a seasoned public policy and international government relations executive.  In previous roles, Mr. Andrews served as the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce and Chief of Staff to the Secretary.

Jim Baker is the Director of the Office of Net Assessment (ONA). Mr. Baker is responsible for providing the Secretary of Defense & other senior leaders with independent assessments of the prospects of the military capabilities of the United States relative to other actors, as well as the political, economic and regional implications of those assessments. Mr. Baker is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, an alumnus of Harvard's Advanced Management Program and the MIT's Seminar XXI program.

Sasha Baker leads the national security policy team at OpenAI, shaping strategies to address global security challenges posed by advanced AI. She previously served as the Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and has held senior roles across nearly two decades in government, including at the Pentagon, the White House, and in the U.S. Senate. Ms. Baker is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the Board of Visitors for the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College. 

Kathleen Barrón serves as EVP and Chief Strategy Officer for Constellation, the nation's largest producer of carbon-free energy and the leading competitive retail supplier of energy products and services.  Barrón was previously Exelon's EVP for government and regulatory affairs and public policy.Prior to joining Exelon in 2010, Barrón was the Deputy General Counsel at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and prior to that was in private practice with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom LLP.

Doug Beck is the Director of the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), reporting directly to the Secretary of Defense. In this role, Doug oversees efforts to accelerate the Department's adoption of commercial technology throughout the military and also serves as a senior advisor to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense on technology innovation, competition, and strategic impact. In his previous experience with DIU, Doug founded and led its joint reserve component from the inception in 2015 through 2019.

Dr. Herminio Blanco is the Mexican Chair of the Trilateral Commission North America. He was one of the principal advisors of the Mexican private sector during the negotiation of the USMCA. He now represents the Mexican Business Council (Consejo Coordinador Empresarial) in Washington D.C. Previously, Dr. Blanco served as the Secretary of Trade and Industry of Mexico and was the Chief Negotiator of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

Jason Bordoff is the Founding Director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, where he is a Professor of Professional Practice. He is also on the faculty of the Columbia Climate School, where he is Co-Founding Dean Emeritus. He previously served as Special Assistant to President Barack Obama and Senior Director for Energy and Climate Change on the Staff of the National Security Council.

Ron Brownstein is a senior editor at The Atlantic and a senior political analyst for CNN. He is a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of presidential campaigns and the author or editor of seven books. His most recent book, Rock Me on the Water: 1974—The Year Los Angeles Transformed Music, Movies, Television and Politics, was a New York Times best seller. He is a winner of the American Political Science Association’s Carey McWilliams Award, its highest honor for lifetime achievement in journalism.

The Honourable François-Philippe Champagne was first elected in 2015 as the Member of Parliament for Saint-Maurice—Champlain. He has previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Infrastructure and Communities, and Minister of International Trade in Canada. Minister Champagne is a businessman, lawyer, and international trade specialist with over 20 years’ experience at large international companies in Europe, particularly in the fields of energy, engineering, and innovation.

As Deputy Prime Minister of Canada and Premier of Québec, and with a public service career spanning almost 30 years, the Hon. Jean Charest is one of Canada’s best known political figures. Today, he is a Partner at Canadian law firm Therrien, Couture, Joli-Coeur, where he provides invaluable expertise to the firm’s clients with his in-depth knowledge and experience with public policy, corporate Canada, and international matters.

Jared Cohen is President of Global Affairs and co-head of the GS Global Institute. He joined Goldman Sachs as a partner in 2022. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Jared was Chief Executive Officer of Jigsaw, which he founded at Alphabet Inc. in 2016. From 2006 to 2010, he served as a member of the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff and as a close advisor to both Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton. Jared is a New York Times bestselling author of six books.

Michael Duffy has been opinions editor at large at The Washington Post since 2018. He served as a correspondent and editor at TIME Magazine for 33 years.

Prof. Elizabeth Economy is the Hargrove Senior Fellow and co-chair of the Program on the US, China, and the World at the Hoover Institution. From 2021 to 2023, she served as the senior advisor for China in the Department of Commerce. Prof. Economy was previously at the Council on Foreign Relations, where she served as the C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and director for Asia Studies for over a decade.

Richard Fontaine is the Chief Executive Officer of CNAS and Executive Director of the Trilateral Commission North America. Prior to CNAS, he was foreign policy advisor to Senator John McCain and worked at the State Department, the National Security Council (NSC), and on the staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Fontaine served as foreign policy advisor to the McCain 2008 presidential campaign.

R.P. Eddy is the Chief Executive Officer of Ergo, an intelligence and advisory firm praised by Harvard Business Review for its innovative approach. He has held key roles in the White House, as a senior U.S. diplomat, and with the UN, where he helped create the Global Fund to Prevent AIDS, TB, and Malaria. Recognized by the World Economic Forum as a "Global Leader for Tomorrow," he is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. R.P. co-authored the best-selling book, Warnings with Richard Clarke.

Michael B. Greenwald is the Global Head of Financial Innovation and Digital Assets at Amazon Web Services (AWS). He also heads up Global Executive Relations pioneering thought-leadership on artificial intelligence for the Worldwide Public Sector Business.  Prior to Amazon, Michael was a managing director of Digital Asset Education and Chief Geopolitical Risk Officer for global asset management firm AlTi Global and served previously as the U.S. Treasury Attache to Qatar and Kuwait.

Devin Hampton is the Chief Executive Officer of UtilityAPI, a software company that is unleashing the energy transition by unlocking data. Devin is also the co-founder of Empowering Diverse Climate Talent (EDICT), a collective of over 70 climate tech companies that has created hundreds of career opportunities for people from non-traditional backgrounds. He serves on the board of directors at The Clean Energy Leadership Institute and Clean Energy for America. 

The Hon. Jane Harman is a former nine-term congresswoman and was a ranking member of the Intelligence Committee after 9/11. After leaving Congress, she became the first woman President and Chief Executive Officer of the Wilson Center and has served on numerous government advisory boards. She currently is the Co-chair of Freedom House, and sits on multiple government advisory boards (PIAB, NASA, and DHS). She is a Trustee of the Aspen Institute and a Presidential Scholar at USC. She is the author of Insanity Defense: Why Our Failure to Confront Hard National Security Problems Makes Us Less Safe.

Dr. Carlos Heredia is an Associate Professor of International Studies at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE) in Mexico City.  His research focuses on U.S.-Mexico bilateral relations, US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), and the migration corridor between Central America and North America.  His most recent book is Geopolitical Landscapes of Donald Trump: International Politics and Institutional Characteristics of Mexico-Guatemala Relations (Routledge, 2023).

Joe Hurd is a public company board director and investor. Currently, he sits on the boards of Lloyd’s of London, the global insurance marketplace, Hays PLC, a global staffing company, and Trustpilot PLC, a global B2B marketing company. He is also an operating partner at SOSV, an early stage venture capital fund. Joe served as a political appointee at the Department of Commerce during President Obama‘s first term. He resides in Los Altos, California with his family.

Dr. Fred Hu is Primavera Capital Group’s Founder, Chairman, and CEO. He led investments such as Alibaba Group, Ant Group, Yum China, ByteDance, Xpeng Inc., SenseTime, and Mead Johnson Greater China.  Fred currently serves on the boards of Yum China Holdings Inc., ICBC and UBS Group AG. Prior to forming Primavera, Fred was Partner and Chairman of Greater China at Goldman Sachs, and an economist at the IMF. Fred holds a Master in Engineering Science from Tsinghua and a Master and PhD in Economics from Harvard.

Tom Jenkins O.C. is the Chair of the Board of OpenText. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE). Mr. Jenkins was awarded the Canadian Forces Decoration (CD), the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal (QJDM) and the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. 

Dr. Colin Kahl is the Steven C. Házy Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. From April 2021-July 2023, he was the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy at the U.S. Department of Defense. During the Obama Administration, he served as National Security Advisor to then Vice President Biden and, prior to that, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East.

Andy Karsner is the Senior Strategist at Alphabet X. He is also a private equity fund manager, energy entrepreneur, founder and philanthropist. Previously US Assistant Secretary of Energy and Principal climate negotiator for US to UNFCCC. Boards include: Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM) and Applied Material (NASDAQ:AMAT) and Conservation International.

Elizabeth Kelly is the Director of the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (AISI) at NIST. Prior to AISI, Elizabeth served as Special Assistant to the President at the White House National Economic Council, where she was a driving force behind the President's AI executive order. She previously worked on the Biden-Harris Transition Team and in the Obama White House, and helped start and sell a fintech company.  She is a graduate of Yale Law School, Oxford, and Duke.

Reema Khan is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Green Sands Equity, a multi-stage boutique VC firm headquartered in San Francisco with offices in the Mideast, Asia, and Europe. Green Sands invests in Tech, Space, and Health, with iconic investments including SpaceX, Airbnb, Spotify, Pasqal, and Colossal. She also specializes in strategic advisory for governments in their branding for Foreign Direct Investment. Reema also lectures at Stanford and Berkeley on Generational Wealth Management, AI, and Entrepreneurship.

Michael Klein. Launched in 2012, M. Klein and Company is a global strategic advisor to CEOs, boards of directors, governments, and large institutional investors. Since founding M. Klein and Company in 2012, the firm has advised on transactions valued in excess of $1 trillion.

Prof. Stephen Kotkin is the Kleinheinz Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, where he founded and directs the Hoover History Lab.  He is also the Birkelund Professor of History and International Affairs, Emeritus, at Princeton University, where he directed the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.

Gabriel Kra co-founded Prelude Ventures in 2013, after almost 25 years as an investor, entrepreneur, scientist, and activist. Prelude invests in climate across sectors including the built environment, carbon management, compute, energy, food and agriculture, manufacturing and industrials, and mobility.  He currently sits on multiple private and public boards including Form Energy, Electric Hydrogen, Mill Industries, and the CREO Syndicate. Gabriel is an avid skier and recovering climber.

Nicholas Kristof is a columnist for The New York Times and author of many best-selling books. He won Pulitzer Prizes for his coverage of China's Tiananmen Square crackdown and again for his coverage of the Darfur genocide, plus an Emmy for a video of the Covid pandemic. On the side, he and his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, make wine and cider on his family farm, Kristof Farms, in Yamhill, Oregon.

Mark W. Lippert is the Executive Vice President at Samsung.  He is also a senior advisor at CSIS and Vice Chair of the Halifax Security Forum. Lippert has worked as an executive at Google (YouTube) and Boeing.  His government service includes U.S. Ambassador to South Korea, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asia Pacific Security Affairs, Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Defense, and NSC Chief of Staff. He served as a Navy officer in Iraq and Afghanistan. He holds a B.A. and M.A. from Stanford.

Kristine Lee is currently serving as a Director for Technology and National Security at the National Security Council, where she works on both domestic and international technology policy development.  Prior to that, she worked in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy at the Department of Defense as a Country Director for India and subsequently a Country Director for the Philippines, focusing on South China Sea affairs.  Before entering government, Kristine worked at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), where her research focused on U.S. alliances and partnerships in the Indo-Pacific region, U.S.-China relations, and managing the North Korea threat.

Dr. Mark Liu is the Founder and Chairman of J&M Copper Beech Ventures. He is the former Executive Chairman of TSMC (2018-2024). Dr. Liu joined TSMC in 1993, from AT&T Bell Laboratory. Throughout his tenure, he led the establishment of TSMC’s GIGAFAB Operations in Taiwan. As a Co-CEO (2012-1016), Dr. Liu led TSMC R&D and business group to establish TSMC as a leader in the semiconductor industry. Dr. Liu received his M.S. and Ph.D degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley.

Prof. Peter J. Loewen is the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University. His research centers on the future of democratic societies and the politics of technological change. Prior to joining Cornell, he spent 14 years at the University of Toronto, most recently as Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and as the Robert Vipond Distinguished Professor in Democracy in the Department of Political Science.

Prof. J. Michael McQuade is the Director of the Program on Emerging Technology, Scientific Advancement & Global Policy at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs in the Harvard Kennedy School. The program is dedicated to research, dialogue and training at the intersection of technology and policy.

Prof. Nik Nanos C.M. is the Chief Data Scientist at Nanos Research Corporation.  He is the Chair of Atlantik Bruecke Canada, a global fellow at the Wilson Centre in Washington DC and an adjunct research professor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs in Ottawa.  He is a member of the Order of Canada and the Order of St. John, and serves as an Honorary Captain with the Royal Canadian Navy providing advice to the RCN Commander.

Dr. Amit Narayan is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Aina Climate-AI Ventures, a venture fund & company creation studio dedicated to catalyzing & accelerating climate solutions utilizing generative artificial intelligence. He is also the CEO & Chairman of GridCARE, which is working on Artificial Intelligence applications for the Electric Grid. An entrepreneur with a track record of defining new markets, Amit is known for assembling world class teams and bringing innovative technologies to market through focused execution.

Ambassador John Negroponte held government positions abroad and in Washington between 1960 and 1997 and again from 2001 to 2008.  He has been Ambassador to Honduras, Mexico, the Philippines, the United Nations, and Iraq. In Washington, he served twice on the National Security Council staff, first as Director for Vietnam in the Nixon Administration and then as Deputy National Security Advisor under President Reagan. He has also held a cabinet level position as the first DNI.

Jana Nelson is the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Western Hemisphere Affairs. She is the principal advisor to the Secretary of Defense on security and defense policy for the thirty-four-nation region that encompasses Canada, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America. Jana is a former David Rockefeller Fellow, Trilateral Commission North America.

Dr. Antonio Ortiz-Mena is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of AOM Advisors, specializing in strategic counsel for multinational corporations navigating complex economic and political landscapes in the Americas. He serves as a Professor of International Political Economy at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service. Previously, he was SVP at Albright Stonebridge Group, Partner at DGA Group, and Member of Mexico's NAFTA Negotiation Office.

Rebecca Patterson is a globally recognized investor and macro researcher with more than 25 years of experience studying how policy intersects with economic trends to drive markets. Most recently, Rebecca was the Chief Investment Strategist at Bridgewater Associates. She previously worked as the Chief Investment Officer of Bessemer Trust and served in various leadership roles at JP Morgan. Rebecca chairs the Council for Economic Education and is a board director at Bretton Woods Committee.

Dr. Meghan L. O’Sullivan is the Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs and the Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Dr. O’Sullivan is a member of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s Foreign Policy Advisory Board. She is a Senior Director at the strategic consulting firm Macro Advisory Partners and the Chair of the North American Group of the Trilateral Commission.

John Risley O.C. is the Chairman and CEO of CFFI Ventures Inc., a diversified holding company operating internationally. The company has majority or significant stakes in a portfolio of young companies ranging from financial services, renewable energy and the tech sector.

David E. Sanger is the White House and National Security Correspondent of The New York Times and the author, most recently, of New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion and America's Struggle to Defend the West. He has been a member of three teams that have won the Pulitzer Prize and been the recipient of a number of awards for national security reporting and coverage of the Presidency. Mr. Sanger is a CNN contributor, and an adjunct lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government.

Ambassador Kristen Silverberg is President & COO at Business Roundtable. She served in the George W. Bush Administration as U.S. Ambassador to the European Union from 2008 to 2009 and as Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from 2005 to 2008. She also held a number of senior positions at the White House including Deputy Assistant to the President.

Jeffrey Simpson O.C. is the Canadian Chair of the Trilateral Commission North America. He is the author of eight books and the winner of many writing prizes in Canada. He was the national affairs columnist of The Globe and Mail, Canada’s national newspaper for 32 years. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada.

Cecilia Soto González is a former Mexican presidential candidate, legislator and diplomat. Feminist. Currently heads the Frente Cívico Nacional, politically opposed to populism.

Nancy Southern AOE is the Chair & Chief Executive Officer of ATCO Ltd. and Canadian Utilities Limited and she is responsible for the leadership, strategic direction, and operations of both companies. Ms. Southern has long played a prominent role in advocating on social issues of global importance—most notably the rights of Indigenous peoples—and is an Honorary Chief of the Kainai (Blood Tribe of Alberta) who bestowed the name Aksistoowa'paakii, or Brave Woman, upon her in 2012.

Melissa Tidwell is a former legal, policy, and communications executive at Prosus (Edtech), Reddit, and Google. She began her legal career as an attorney at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP and Morrison & Foerster. Currently, she advises and angel invests in a wide range of pre-IPO technology start-ups across sectors such as climate, fintech, edtech, health tech, and legal tech. She also serves as a member of the Advisory Jury for the NYU School of Law Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital Program.

Ambassador Julián Ventura is a career diplomat, currently on leave from the Mexican Foreign Service. With over 33 years in public service, he has held senior diplomatic positions in four administrations, most recently as Deputy Secretary of Foreign Affairs, where he oversaw key relationships in Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, and served as Mexico’s G-20 Sherpa. He was Mexico’s Ambassador to China from 2013 to 2017.

Prof. Jessica Chen Weiss is the David M. Lampton Professor of China Studies at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies and nonresident senior fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute Center for China Analysis. From August 2021 to July 2022, she served as senior advisor to the Secretary's Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. State Department on a Council on Foreign Relations Fellowship for Tenured International Relations Scholars.

Alex Wong is the Global Head of Public Affairs at Coupang, Inc. and a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute.  He recently completed a term as Chairman of the congressionally appointed U.S.-China Economic & Security Review Commission.  He served in the U.S. State Department as Deputy Special Representative for North Korea and as Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian & Pacific Affairs.  He was previously the Foreign Policy Advisor & General Counsel to U.S. Senator Tom Cotton.

The Honourable Yuen Pau Woo. Appointed to the Senate of Canada in November 2016, the Honourable Yuen Pau Woo sits as an independent representing British Columbia.  A native of Malaysia, the Honourable Yuen Pau Woo has worked on public policy issues related to Canada’s relations with Asian countries for more than 30 years. He has worked for the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, the Monetary Authority of Singapore, and the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation.