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
Jacob J. Lew
Visiting Professor of International & Public Affairs, Columbia University
Partner, Lindsay Goldberg
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 2013-2017
Honorary Chair
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 Chairs
Henry A. Kissinger
Chairman, Kissinger Associates
U.S. Secretary of State, 1973-1977
U.S. National Security Advisor, 1969-1975
Vice Chairs
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
Treasurer
Keith W. Abell
Chairman, N4XT Experiences Inc., Los Angeles Fashion Week Enterprises Inc , and Beauty Days, Inc.
Directors
Jonathan Auerbach
EVP & Chief Strategy, Growth & Data Officer, PayPal
Dennis C. Blair
Director of National Intelligence, 2009-2010; Commander, U.S. Pacific Command, 1999-2002; Admiral, U.S. Navy (retired)
Andy Blocker
Global Head of Public Policy & Head of US Government Affairs, Invesco
Olivier Brandicourt
Former CEO, Sanofi and Bayer HealthCare
Dan Bryant
Executive Vice President, Global Public Policy & Government Affairs, Walmart Inc.
Angela Chao
Chair and CEO,
Foremost Group
John S. Chen
Executive Chairman & CEO, BlackBerry
Peter M. Cleveland
Senior Vice President, Global Government Affairs, TSMC
Daniel Cruise
Partner, Tikehau Capital
Ray Dalio
Founder, CIO Mentor, and Member of the Bridgewater Board
Robert L. Daly
Director, Kissinger Institute on China and the United States, Wilson Center
Joseph F. Dunford, Jr.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 2015-2019; General, Marine Corps (retired)
William E. Ford
Chairman and CEO, General Atlantic
Barbara H. Franklin
President & CEO, Barbara Franklin Enterprises; U.S. Secretary of Commerce, 1992-1993
M. Taylor Fravel
Chairman and Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science & Director, MIT Security Studies Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mary E. Gallagher
Lowenstein Professor of Democracy, Democratization, and Human Rights, Department of Political Science & Director of the International Institute, University of Michigan
Paul T. Haenle
Chair, Carnegie China Center for Global Policy; Director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolia Affairs, National Security Council, 2007-2009
Benjamin D. Harburg
Managing Partner, MSA Capital
Ming Hsieh
Chairman & CEO, Fulgent Genetics
Jon M. Huntsman, Jr.
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; Dean Emerita & Professor of Practice, International Economic Law & International Affairs, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Katherine P. Kaup
James B. Duke Professor of Asian Studies and Politics and International Affairs, Furman University
David M. Lampton
Professor Emeritus & Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies
Cheng Li
Director, John L. Thornton China Center; Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution
Kenneth G. Lieberthal
Senior Fellow Emeritus, Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution; Special Assistant to the President & Senior Director for Asia, National Security Council, 1998-2000
Gary F. Locke
Interim President, Bellevue College; Governor of Washington, 1997-2005; U.S. Secretary of Commerce, 2009-2011; U.S. Ambassador to China, 2011-2014
Anja Manuel
Co-founder & Partner, Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC
Ken Miller
President & CEO, Ken Miller Capital
Yvonne Pei
Senior Vice President, The Walt Disney Company, Greater China
A. Robert Pietrzak
Partner (retired), Sidley Austin
Joshua Cooper Ramo
Chairman & CEO, Sornay, LLC
Jason W. Rekate
Global Head of Corporate Banking, Citigroup
Daniel H. Rosen
Partner, Rhodium Group
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, 1996-1999
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 Literatures & Comparative Literature, Yale University
Jan F. van Eck
CEO, VanEck
Jessica Chen Weiss
Michael J. Zak Professor for China and Asia-Pacific Studies, Cornell University
Leana S. Wen
Emergency Physician & Visiting Professor of Health Policy and Management, George Washington University’s School of Public Health; Nonresident Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Mark Wiedman
Senior Managing Director, Head of International and of Corporate Strategy, BlackRock
Robert H. Xiao
CEO, Perfect World Co., Ltd
Jerry Yang
Founding Partner, AME Cloud Ventures; Co-founder & former CEO, Yahoo!
Nancy Yao
President, Museum of Chinese in America
Peng Zhao
CEO, Citadel Securities
Chair Emeritus
W. Michael Blumenthal
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1977-1979