David M. Lampton is Professor Emeritus and former Hyman Professor and Director of SAIS-China and China Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and Sr. Research Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute. Having also served as Dean of Faculty from 2004-2012. Formerly President of the National Committee on United States-China Relations, he is the author of many books including, The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money, and Minds (University of California Press, 2008), with prior publications appearing in: Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The American Political Science Review, The China Quarterly, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and many other venues popular and academic in both the western world and in Chinese speaking societies. He received his BA, MA, and PhD degrees from Stanford University. Dr. Lampton headed the China Studies programs at the American Enterprise Institute and at The Nixon Center (now The Center for National Interest), having previously worked at the National Academy of Sciences and having started his teaching career at Ohio State University.

Madelyn Ross has worked in China-related positions in higher education and non-profit organizations for 30 years. She became president of the US-China Education Trust in March 2022. Before coming to USCET she was executive director of SAIS China and associate director of China Studies at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, which included oversight of the Hopkins-Nanjing Center partnership in China and the SAIS dual degree program with Tsinghua University.  She worked at George Mason University from 2003 to 2015, becoming director of China Initiatives across the university. She also spent nine years at The US-China Business Council, as editor of The China Business Review and executive director of The China Business Forum. Ross holds an M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University and a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Princeton University, magna cum laude. She did graduate work in Chinese at Fudan University in Shanghai in 1979-1980, where she was one of the first American students to study in China following normalization of US-China relations. She has lived and worked in Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Taipei.

Rosie Levine is the Executive Director of the US-China Education Trust (USCET). She previously worked on the China program at the U.S. Institute of Peace and was named a 2024 Project Fellow with the Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations. Earlier, she spent four years at the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, where she managed the Public Intellectuals Program and oversaw a major study on American research on China, with findings featured in outlets such as The Guardian, The Atlantic, and the Financial Times. From 2014 to 2018, Levine lived in Beijing, completing her master’s at the Yenching Academy of Peking University and serving as Program Director at the Beijing Cultural Heritage Protection Center. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan, head of Young China Watchers–DC, a Pacific Forum Young Leader, and grew up partly in Beijing.

Jean C. Oi is the William Haas Professor of Chinese Politics at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. She directs the China Program at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and was the founding Lee Shau Kee Director of the Stanford Center at Peking University. She also served as Vice President (2022–23) and President (2023–24) of the Association for Asian Studies. Before joining Stanford in 1997, she taught at Lehigh University and Harvard University. A leading scholar of China’s political economy, Oi’s research examines central-local relations and the institutional dynamics of reform. Her work traces how fiscal policies—ranging from grain collection to taxation and, most recently, local government debt—offer insight into China’s governance and state-society relations. She received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan.

Neysun A. Mahboubi is Director of the Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches on Chinese law, history, and policy and hosts the China Studies podcast. He is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a Research Affiliate of the Penn Program on Regulation, and affiliated with Penn’s Center for the Study of Contemporary China. His work focuses on administrative, comparative, and Chinese law, with recent writing on modern Chinese administrative law. A frequent commentator on Chinese law and U.S.-China relations for outlets such as Bloomberg TV, NPR, and the Sinica Podcast, he has taught at Princeton, Yale, and UConn, and earlier served at the U.S. Department of Justice and clerked for Judge Douglas P. Woodlock. He holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School and an A.B. from Princeton University.

Maggie Lewis’s research focuses on China and Taiwan, with an emphasis on criminal justice, human rights, and legal issues in the U.S.-China relationship. She is spending 2025 on sabbatical as a Visiting Academic Researcher at Melbourne Law School’s Asian Law Centre and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations as well as a Board Member and Public Intellectual Program fellow with the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. She has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar at National Taiwan University, a visiting professor at Academia Sinica, a consultant to the Ford Foundation, and a delegate to the U.S.-Japan Leadership Program, and is also a nonresident affiliated scholar at NYU School of Law’s U.S.-Asia Law Institute. In addition to publishing widely in academic journals, she co-authored Challenge to China: How Taiwan Abolished its Version of Re-Education Through Labor with Jerome A. Cohen. Lewis earned her J.D. from NYU, her B.A. from Columbia, and also studied at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center. 

Mark Baxter Lambert served as State Department China Coordinator and Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs until January 2025, overseeing the Offices of China and Taiwan Coordination. A career diplomat with extensive experience in Asia-Pacific affairs, he previously managed portfolios covering Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands, and earlier served as Special Envoy for North Korean Affairs, Director of the Office of Korean Affairs, and Political Counselor in Hanoi. Lambert has held multiple assignments in Beijing, Bangkok, Tokyo, and Bogotá, and earlier worked as a weapons inspector in Iraq. Recognized with a Meritorious Presidential Rank Award and numerous commendations, he is noted for his work on human rights, crisis response, and strengthening U.S. relations in the region. 

Dennis Wilder is a senior fellow with the Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues and an assistant professor of the practice in Asian Studies at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He previously served as the National Security Council’s director for China (2004–05) and as special assistant to the president and senior director for East Asian affairs (2005–09), supporting presidential trips including the 2008 Beijing Olympics. From 2009 to 2015, he was senior editor of the President’s Daily Brief, followed by service as the CIA’s deputy assistant director for East Asia and the Pacific (2015–16). Wilder studied Mandarin at the Chinese University of Hong Kong under Yale-in-China, and his expertise spans Chinese military power, U.S. diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific, U.S.-China relations, and U.S. intelligence. He holds a B.A. from Kalamazoo College and an M.S. in foreign service from Georgetown University.