Our Advisory Board
Our Advisory Board consists of prominent foreign policy thought leaders, academics, and business leaders in emerging markets.
Members of our Advisory Board help shape our research, participate in private meetings, webcasts, and are available to our clients for one-on-one consultations. Access to our Advisory Board provides clients with the latest thinking and unique insights on emerging markets not available in the public domain.
Dr. Rawi Abdelal
Dr. Rawi Abdelal is Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. His book National Purpose in the World Economy won the 2002 Schulman Prize as the outstanding book on the international relations of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
Ambassador Morton Abramowitz
Ambassador Morton Abramowitz served as U.S. Ambassador to Turkey and Thailand. He is also the former President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former Acting President of the International Crisis Group.
Ambassador Kenneth Adelman
Ambassador Kenneth Adelman served as deputy U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and as Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He also served as advisor to Ronald Reagan.
Ambassador Jeffrey Bader
Ambassador Jeffrey Bader served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs and as Assistant U.S. Trade Representative responsible for China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mongolia.
Betty Bigombe
Betty Bigombe is a former Uganda government minister and consultant to the World Bank. She is an ethnic Acholi and has been involved in peace negotiations, including a post as chief mediator, to end the insurgency of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) of Uganda since 1994. She is currently a senior fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace.
Ambassador Avis Bohlen
Ambassador Avis Bohlen served as Assistant Secretary for Arms Control from 1999 to 2002, U.S. Ambassador to Bulgaria from 1996 to 1999, and Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. embassy in Paris from 1991 to 1995. She has held many other posts in the U.S. Department of State related to European political and security affairs.
Professor Michael Chu
Professor Michael Chu teaches at Harvard Business School and is managing director of IGNIA Fund, an investment firm that invests in businesses serving low-income populations in developing countries. Additionally, he was a founding partner of Pegasus Capital which deploys equity capital in Latin America. He has formerly served as President of ACCION International, as well.
Governor Grey Davis (ret.)
Governor Grey Davis (ret.) is an American politician who served as California’s 37th Governor from 1999 to 2003. Prior to serving as Governor, Davis served as Chief of Staff to Governor Jerry Brown (1975-1981), California State Assemblyman (1983-1987), California State Controller (1987-1995), and Lieutenant Governor of California (1995-1999).
Dr. Elizabeth Economy
Dr. Economy is the Director of Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Her expertise includes China's domestic and foreign policy and global environmental issues.
Dr. James Ferrer
Dr. James Ferrer is founder and Director of the Center for Latin American Issues at the George Washington University. He has been Deputy U.S. Ambassador to Brazil, Director of the Brazil desk at the U.S. Department of State, and Director of Economic Affairs at the U.S. embassy in Lisbon, among other postings.
Barbara Finamore
Barbara Finamore is founder of and a senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) which promotes energy efficiency, green buildings, and environmental health. She has worked for the United Nations Development Programme, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Sir Peter Heap
Sir Peter Heap is a former British Ambassador to Brazil and served senior posts in Hong Kong, Macau, and West Africa.
Dr. Jing Huang
Dr Huang is Assistant Professor and inaugural Director
of the Center for Global Health Studies at the John C.
Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International
Relations, Seton Hall University, where he developed
the first academic concentration among American
schools of international affairs that explicitly addresses
the foreign policy and security aspects of health issues.
Dr. Yanzhong Huang
Dr Huang is Assistant Professor and inaugural Director of the Center for Global Health Studies at the John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University, where he developed the first academic concentration among American schools of international affairs that explicitly addresses the foreign policy and security aspects of health issues.
Ambassador Martin S. Indyk
Ambassador Martin S. Indyk was U.S. Ambassador to Israel and Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs during the Clinton administration. He now directs the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings.
Dr. Robert Kapp
Dr. Kapp served as president of the US-China Business Council from April, 1994 to November, 2004.
Dr. Stephen D. Krasner
Dr. Krasner is the former Head of Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State in the administration George W. Bush. He is an expert on geopolitics and International political economy.
Joshua Kurlantzick
Mr. Kurlantzick's new book, Charm Offensive, How China's Soft Power is Transforming the World focuses on how China uses its soft power to influence other countries in the developing world.
Dr. Kenneth B. Lieberthal
Dr. Lieberthal served as Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Senior Director for Asia at the National Security Council during he Clinton Administration.
Professor Xiaobo Lü
Professor Lu is a Professor of Political Science at
Barnard College and Columbia University, and is the
most recent former Director of the Weatherhead East
Asian Institute. Professor Lü is a member of Council on
Foreign Relations, Committee of 100, and the National
Committee on US-China Relations. He is currently
writing a book on the rise of the regulatory state in
China.
Dr. Cynthia McClintock
Dr. Cynthia McClintock is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University and has written numerous books and articles on Peruvian politics. She has recently received a fellowship with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars for her work on elections in Latin America.
Dr. James Mulvenon
Dr. Mulvenon serves as Deputy Director, Advanced Analysis at DGI's Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis.
Dr. Barry Naughton
Dr. Naughton teaches at the University of California, San Diego and is an authority on the Chinese economy, with an emphasis on issues relating to industry, trade, finance and China's transition to a market economy.
Dr. David Scott Palmer
Dr. David Scott Palmer is the author of five books and more than 40 articles and book chapters on topics related to politics in Latin America. He consults regularly for the U.S. Department of State, the National Intelligence Council, and the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Dr. Minxin Pei
Dr. Pei is a senior associate and director of the China Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Ambassador Steven Pifer
Ambassador Pifer served as U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine and as National Security Senior Director for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia.
Ambassador Nicholas Platt
Ambassador Platt served as U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, Philippines, and Zambia, and as a high level diplomat in Canada, China, Hong Kong, and Japan. He is President Emeritus of the Asia Society in New York City.
Dr. Tanatat Puttasuwan
Dr. Tanatat Puttasuwan is Director of Corporate Social Responsibility of the Population and Community Development Association in Thailand. As a specialist at the World Bank, he was in charge of the Corporate Sector Restructuring Program in Thailand during the Asian Financial Crisis.
Dr. Riordan Roett
Dr. Riordan Roett has consulted for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and Chase Manhattan Bank, and serves on the boards of a number of mutual funds at Legg Mason, Inc. He is a former faculty fellow of the World Economic Forum and has received the Order of Rio Branco from the government of Brazil.
Ambassador Stapleton Roy
Ambassador Stapleton Roy is a Senior United States diplomat specializing in Asian affairs. His diplomatic career spans Bangkok, Hong Kong, Taipei, Beijing, Singapore, and Jakarta in addition to serving in Moscow at the height of the Cold War. Ambassador Roy was Assistant Secretary of State for intelligence and research from 1999-2000.
Dr. Adam Segal
Dr. Segal is the Greenberg senior fellow for China Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. His expertise includes technology and development in China and India; East Asian security; and Chinese and domestic and foreign policy.
Dr. Debora Spar
Dr. Spar is the Spangler Family Professor at Harvard Business School, where she works on issues of business-government relations and the political environment of international commerce.
Dr. Mohan Subramaniam
Dr. Mohan Subramaniam is associate professor of strategy at Boston College’s Carroll School of Management and specializes in the areas of global strategy, managing multinational companies, and the strategic management of knowledge and innovation. He has consulted for leading global companies including General Motors, Nextel, and New Balance.