Board of Directors

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

Charlene Barshefsky

Chair, Parkside Global Advisors;
Former U.S. Trade Representative (1997-2001)

Honorary Chairs

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 Chair

Vice Chair

Thomas H. Kean

Chairman & CEO, THK Consulting;
Governor of New Jersey, 1982-1990

Treasurer

Keith W. Abell

Chairman, N4XT Experiences Inc.,
New York Fashion Week, Los Angeles Fashion Week

Secretary

I. Peter Wolff

Former SVP, International & Executive
Advisor, Time Warner

Directors

Dennis C. Blair

Former Director of National Intelligence; Knott Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Andy Blocker

Global Head of Public Policy & Strategic Partnerships, Invesco

Olivier Brandicourt

Senior Advisor at Blackstone Life Sciences; Director of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc., BenevolentAI S.A., and AvenCell Therapeutics, Inc.;
BeiGene, board member

Amy P. Celico

Executive Director, Schwarzman Scholars, Stephen A. Schwarzman Education Foundation

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

Former Director, Kissinger Institute, Wilson Center

Nelson G. Dong

Retired Partner and Former Head of National Security Group,
Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Joseph F. Dunford, Jr.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 2015-2019; General, Marine Corps (Retired)

Paul Dyck

Senior Vice President, Global Public Policy and Government Affairs, Walmart

Elizabeth C. Economy

Hargrove Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution,
Stanford University

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

Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science; Director, Security Studies Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mary E. Gallagher

Marilyn Keough Dean of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame

Paul T. Haenle

Managing Director, Head of Asia Pacific Policy & Strategic Competitiveness
Global Government Relations; J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.

Ming Hsieh

Chairman & CEO, Fulgent Genetics

Jon M. Huntsman, Jr.

Vice Chairman and President, Strategic Growth, Mastercard; 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; Former Dean, School of International and Public Affairs & Professor of Practice, International Economic Law and International Affairs, Columbia University

Katherine P. Kaup

James B. Duke Professor of Asian Studies and Politics and International Affairs, Furman University

Elizabeth D. Knup

Senior Fellow, Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs

David M. Lampton

Professor Emeritus of China Studies, Sr. Research Fellow, Foreign Policy Institute, Johns Hopkins SAIS

Nicholas R. Lardy

Nonresident Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics

Margaret K. Lewis

Professor of Law, Seton Hall University School of Law

Kenneth G. Lieberthal

Senior Fellow Emeritus, Brookings Institute

LING Hai

President, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East & Africa
Mastercard

Samuel J. Locklear III

Commander,
U.S. Pacific Command, 2012-2015;
Admiral, U.S. Navy (Retired)

Ken Miller

President & CEO,
Ken Miller Capital

Sheldon Pang

Vice Chairman,
Freepoint Commodities LLC

Yvonne Pei

SVP, Government Affairs, Greater China,
The Walt Disney Company International

A. Robert Pietrzak

Partner (Retired),
Sidley Austin

Joshua C. Ramo

Chairman & CEO,
Sornay, LLC

Clark T. Randt, Jr.

U.S. Ambassador, People’s Republic of China, 2001-2009

Jason W. Rekate

Global Head of Corporate Banking, Citigroup

Hartley R. Rogers

Executive Co-Chairman,
Hamilton Lane

Daniel H. Rosen

Co-Founder and China Practice Leader,
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, 1996-1998