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Rob is vice chairman of Goldman Sachs and a member of the Management Committee. Previously, Rob served as president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Before joining the Fed, Rob was the Martin Marshall Professor of Management Practice and senior associate dean at Harvard Business School (HBS).

Rob initially joined Goldman Sachs in 1983 and became a partner in 1990. In 2002, he became vice chairman of the firm with global responsibility for the Investment Banking and Investment Management Divisions. He also served as co-chair of the Partnership Committee and chair of the Goldman Sachs Pine Street Leadership Program. In 1998, Rob became global co-head of Investment Banking and a member of the Management Committee. His previous roles included serving as head of Asia Pacific Investment Banking, co-chief operating officer of global Investment Banking and head of the Americas Corporate Finance Department.

Rob retired from the firm in 2006 to join HBS, becoming a senior director at that time.

Rob is chairman of Project ALS and co-chairman of the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation. He is a board member of Harvard Medical School and St. Mark's School of Texas, and is a member of the George W. Bush Institute's Advisory Council. Rob is also an Advisory Board member of the Baker Institute. He serves on the Bipartisan Policy Center President's Council and on the Board of Directors at The Holdsworth Center.

Rob is the author of three books on leadership, What You Really Need to Lead, What You’re Really Meant To Do, and What to Ask the Person in the Mirror.

Rob earned a BS from the University of Kansas in 1979 and an MBA from HBS in 1983.

Brian Menell is the Chairman and CEO of TechMet Limited, a leading critical minerals investment company with a portfolio of assets that responsibly produce, process, and recycle the metals that are critical to building the global energy transition. He has over 25 years’ experience funding, developing and managing mining, energy, trading and agri-industry projects across Africa, Europe and the Americas.

TechMet’s portfolio of assets includes lithium extraction from both brine and hard rock sources, nickel and cobalt hydroxide production from laterite ores, vanadium chemical production from industrial waste feedstocks, rare earth production and processing, tin and tungsten mining, lithium-ion battery recycling, and high-performance cathode manufacturing. He serves as a Director of a number of TechMet’s investee companies, including: Trinity Metals Ltd., US Vanadium LLC, Brazilian Nickel Ltd. and TechMet-Mercuria SA.

Mr. Menell holds a B.A (Hon.) in Political Science & Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Matthew Klein is an author whose work is read across the world by central bankers, chief economists, academics, policymakers, and investors.

He won the 2014 Eppy Award for “Best Online Infographics on a Website with 1 million unique monthly visitors and over” for my examination of U.S. mortality statistics and the 2021 Lionel Gelber Prize for my book Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace (Yale, 2020) with Michael Pettis.

Matthew began his career with an internship doing global macro investment research at Bridgewater Associates in the summer of 2008. The global financial crisis catalyzed his life's mission: to figure out the interlocking systems of trade and finance that cause bubbles, busts, and everything in between.

He then worked at the Council on Foreign Relations to research economic and financial history, followed by a carreer in journalism at the Economist, Bloomberg, the Financial Times, and Barron’s, where he was the Economics Commentator.

Jordan Schneider is the founder of the ChinaTalk Podcast and Newsletter. He previously worked for the Rhodium Group and Bridgewater. Jordan received a master's degree in economics from Peking University's Yenching Academy and a BA in history from Yale. His research has appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Wired, and Lawfare. He is proficient in Chinese.

Joseph T. Yun, Ph.D. serves as Director of AI Enablement at the University of Pittsburgh and Research Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Swanson School of Engineering. His work focuses on building production-ready AI systems and translating them into real-world business impact. At Pitt, he started and runs the only East Coast based Amazon AWS AI Cloud Innovation Center and has helped lead applied AI partnerships with organizations including Dell, Amazon AWS, and Anthropic. Joe is also Chief AI Strategist of Avenera, where he helps organizations navigate and deploy AI at scale.

Ryan Fedasiuk is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on US-China relations, technology, and national power. Concurrently, Mr. Fedasiuk is an adjunct assistant professor at Georgetown University.

Before joining AEI, Mr. Fedasiuk was the director for US AI policy at The Future Society. He was also a US-China bilateral affairs adviser and technology adviser at the State Department’s Office of China Coordination, senior research analyst at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology, and aerospace security researcher at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Mr. Fedasiuk’s work has been published in a variety of media outlets, including Foreign Policy, Politico, and War on the Rocks.

He holds an MA in security studies from Georgetown University and BA in international studies from American University.

Chris Christie is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 55th governor of New Jersey from 2010 to 2018. A member of the Republican Party, he was the United States attorney for the District of New Jersey from 2002 to 2008 and a Morris County commissioner from 1995 to 1997. He was a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 and 2024.

Grant Kettering is Co-Founder & CEO of the Club for Productivity (CFP). In 2014, Mr. Kettering founded KGA, a personal investment platform through which he has founded and invested in a series of companies focused on the modernization of traditional industries, including in finance, consumer, biotech, and industrial goods. Since 2009, he has served as a Director on the Board of his family’s investment company, which was founded in 1925, and a Member of a family foundation, which was established in 1955. Mr. Kettering also maintains active involvement in public affairs. He is a China Expert at the World Economic Forum, a member of the Economic Club of New York, and a member of the Cultural Evolution Society. Mr. Kettering received a Masters of Arts in Liberal Arts from St. John's College Annapolis where he studied political philosophy and ancient Greek, and a Bachelors of Arts magna cum laude from Northwestern University where he studied mathematics, philosophy, and physics. Mr. Kettering is an American citizen who was born and raised in Colorado. He is not affiliated with any political party. He resides in New York City and Steamboat Springs.

Lukas Walton is Executive Chairman & Founder of Builders Vision, an investment and philanthropy platform investing innovative capital to build a more resilient future.

Based in Chicago, Builders Vision’s nearly 100-person team manages over $15 billion across multiple asset classes and focuses on three sectors: food & agriculture, energy and oceans. Its diverse, forward-thinking team includes investors, entrepreneurs, engineers, advocates and scientists who are deploying flexible capital today to build the economy of tomorrow.

Fifty years from now, one journalist will be the voice and face of our political era — and that journalist is Chuck Todd. A self-described political junkie, he has earned a reputation as one of the most passionate journalists and sharpest analysts in American media. He was the former NBC News chief political analyst and, from 2014-2023, served as the revered moderator of— the flagship Sunday morning public affairs program, the longest-running broadcast in television history, and the number one-rated Sunday public affairs program for several consecutive years. Todd also hosted the daily NBC News Now show,, which builds on the success of its previous iteration,, which Todd anchored for eight seasons

Influencers and competitors praise him as “a tireless reporter” with “an encyclopedic knowledge of politics” and the ability to “break down barriers and get people off of their talking points.” With whatcalls a “savant-like knowledge of politics,” he has become a fixture in the White House press room, a steady and constant presence on television, and a tireless voice on the campaign trail. His up-to-the-minute poll analysis and insightful commentary have made him one of the most sought-after voices in American political coverage.

Previously, Todd served as NBC News chief White House correspondent (2008–2014), as well as the host of NBC News’(2010–2014), featuring interviews with members of Congress and other newsmakers. As the network’s former chief political analyst, he played a key role in shaping the editorial for all aspects of NBC’s political coverage. Exclusively represented by Leading Authorities speakers bureau, Chuck Todd has the unique ability to deliver an all-consuming passion for politics with razor-sharp analysis. As the political news of today becomes tomorrow’s American history, he offers a comprehensive picture of the current political landscape and serves as the voice of America in the early 21st century.

Todd was among the media’s most-trusted voices in the run up to the 2

Christina Wing is a Senior Lecturer in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. Her research focuses on families in business, and she is the creator of Demystifying the Family Enterprise, a course that explores family dynamics, operating companies, family offices, and legacy opportunities. In recognition of her contributions to the field, she was named a Top 25 Family Enterprise Academic by Family Capital.

Marshall Kosloff is a Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center. He is also the host of The Realignment podcast, which covers the realignment of American politics after the 2016 election. In addition, Marshall is a Senior Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin's Strauss Center for International Security and Law and the Executive Producer of Endless Frontiers, an annual gathering in Austin, Texas focused on American competitiveness.

Rush Doshi is the C.V. Starr senior fellow for Asia studies and director of the China Strategy Initiative at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). His expertise includes China’s foreign policy, U.S. strategy toward China, cross-strait issues, and Indo-Pacific security.

Before joining CFR, Doshi was deputy senior director for China and Taiwan on President Joe Biden’s National Security Council (NSC), where he served from 2021 to 2024 and helped manage the NSC’s first China directorate. During his tenure, Doshi coordinated U.S. government policy on China and Taiwan, drafted the administration’s China strategy, and negotiated with PRC counterparts. For five months in 2021, he was the U.S. government’s lead action officer coordinating the negotiations that launched AUKUS, a trilateral security partnership for the Indo-Pacific region between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Doshi is an assistant professor in Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service. He is the author of The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order (Oxford University Press, 2021). Doshi was also coeditor of Global China: Assessing China’s Growing Role in the World (Brookings, 2021). His research has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, as well as in peer-reviewed academic publications such as International Organization and Asia Policy. He has testified before the Senate Commerce Committee and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.

Prior to his government service, Doshi was a fellow at the Brookings Institution and Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center. Doshi also served as coordinator of the Asia policy working group for the Biden 2020 presidential campaign. He was previously a non-resident senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, special adviser to the CEO of the Asia Group, and a Wilson Center China Fellow. He has also served five years as an officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve.

Doshi received his bachelor’s degree from Princeton University in public policy with a minor in East Asian Studies and his PhD from Harvard University focusing on Chinese foreign policy. He was also a Fulbright fellow in China and is proficient in Mandarin.

Tanner Greer is the Deputy Director of the Open Source Observatory, a project of the Council on Foreign Relations that investigates Chinese politics by identifying, translating, and annotating Chinese documents and policy debates of strategic importance. Previous to directing the Observatory, Mr. Greer worked as a journalist and essayist. His columns on Chinese affairs, international relations, and world history have been published in outlets such as The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy, as well as on his personal blog, The Scholar’s Stage. He earned a BA in history and politics from Brigham Young University-Hawaii in 2015.

Nadia Schadlow is a senior fellow at Hudson Institute and a co-chair of the Hamilton Commission on Securing America’s National Security Innovation Base. 

She conducts research and analysis on a range of issues at the intersection of strategy, national security, and technology. She writes on topics that include the vulnerabilities of US supply chains in areas such as advanced batteries and energetic materials; the relationship between climate and defense policy; and the disconnects between strategy and operational policies. Her articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Hill, Parameters, the Wall Street Journal, Philanthropy, and several edited volumes.

Dr. Schadlow was most recently US deputy national security advisor for strategy. In that capacity she led the drafting and publication of the 2017 National Security Strategy of the United States. Earlier in her career, she served as a senior program officer in the International Security and Foreign Policy Program of the Smith Richardson Foundation, where she helped identify strategic issues that warranted further attention from the US policy community. She also served in the Defense Department. 

Dr. Schadlow holds a BA in government and Soviet studies from Cornell University and an MA and PhD from the John Hopkins Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

In 1975, Ray Dalio founded an investment firm, Bridgewater Associates, out of his two-bedroom apartment in New York City. Over forty years later, Bridgewater has grown into the fifth most important private company in the United States, according to Fortune magazine, and Dalio himself has been named to Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Along the way, Dalio discovered a set of unique principles that have led to Bridgewater’s exceptionally effective culture, which he describes as “an idea meritocracy that strives to achieve meaningful work and meaningful relationships through radical transparency.” It is these principles, and not anything special about Dalio—who grew up an ordinary kid in a middle-class Long Island neighborhood—that he believes are the reason behind his success.

Rahm Emanuel is an American politician and diplomat. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives for three terms. Emanuel was the White House chief of staff from 2009 to 2010 under President Barack Obama and served as mayor of Chicago from 2011 to 2019. He served as United States ambassador to Japan from 2022 to 2025.