James Crabtree is a distinguished visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Crabtree is a geopolitical analyst and author, with extensive experience living and working in Asia. His book The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India’s New Gilded Age, was named an Amazon book of the year and short-listed as a Financial Times & McKinsey business book of the year. Prior to joining ECFR, he was the Singapore-based executive director of the Institute of International Strategic Studies in Asia, where he led the organisation of the Shangri-La Dialogue security summit, and an associate professor in practice at the Lee Kuan Yew School, Asia’s leading school of public policy.

James spent ten years as a journalist and foreign correspondent, notably for the Financial Times, where he was both Mumbai bureau chief and comment editor. He is currently a columnist for Foreign Policy and writes for publications ranging from the Straits Times to The New York Times, the Guardian and Wired. He previously worked as a senior advisor in the UK prime minister’s Strategy Unit, under Gordon Brown and Tony Blair. Crabtree has worked for various think tanks in London and Washington, and spent several years living in America, initially as a Fulbright Scholar at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Katherine Morton is the Schwarzman College Professor of Global Affairs. She is also an Associate of the China Centre at the University of Oxford and an Associate Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Her research addresses the domestic and international motivations behind China’s changing role in the world and the implications for foreign policy and the study of International Relations.

Prior to her appointment at the Schwarzman College she held the positions of Chair in China’s International Relations at the University of Sheffield , UK and Associate Dean for Research at the College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University. Professor Morton is a regular participant in policy dialogues on China and international affairs. She has been awarded two Senior Memberships to St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, and visiting fellowships to Peking University, Rajaratnam School of International Studies, China Foreign Affairs University, and Columbia University.

She has published widely on global governance, transnational security, the environment and climate change, food security, and maritime disputes in the South China Sea. Her current book project with Oxford University Press examines the likely impacts of China’s rising international status upon the evolving system of global governance.

Wang Dong is Full Professor with Tenure at School of International Studies, Peking University. He holds a joint professorship appointment at Institute for Global Health and Development, Peking University. Prof. Wang also serves as Deputy Director of the Office for Humanities and Social Sciences and Executive Director of the Institute for Global Cooperation and understanding(iGCU), both at Peking University. He also serves as Standing Council Member of the Chinese Association of American Studies, Member of the Steering Committee of the East Asia Security Forum, and Chinese Overseas Educated Scholars Association, among other advisory posts.

Wang Dong received his bachelor’s in law from Peking University and M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He had taught with a tenure-track appointment at York College of Pennsylvania before joining the faculty of Peking University. Dr. Wang has written extensively on international relations and China’s foreign policy. His articles appear in leading academic journals and media outlets such as The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Diplomatic History, The Pacific Review, Foreign Affairs, Global Asia, The Diplomat, The New York Times, and The Straits Times. He sits on the editorial boards of several leading academic journals in China and abroad, and serves as an anonymous reviewer for several premier academic journals internationally. He is the author and/or editor of 6 English-language publications such as Re-globalization: When China Meets the World Again(Routledge, 2020).

Dr. Wang has attended several premier international forums and track II dialogues as a Chinese Delegate, including Summer Davos, the Munich Security Conference, and the Shangri-La Dialogue. Dr.Wang was named a “Munich Young Leader” in 2016 (the only awardee from China); and was selected by the inaugural program of “Preeminent Young Scientists” of Beijing in 2018 (topping the tanks as No. 1 in the sub-category of humanities and social sciences), one of the most prestigious awards ever given in China.

Senior Colonel Zhou Bo (retired) started his military service in 1979. He served in different posts in Guangzhou Air Force Regional Command. From 1993 he worked successively as staff officer, Deputy Director General of West Asia and Africa Bureau and then Deputy Director General of General Planning Bureau of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Ministry of National Defense of China, Chinese Defense Attaché to the Republic of Namibia and Director of the Centre for Security Cooperation in the Office for International Military Cooperation, Ministry of National Defense. He is now a senior fellow of Center for International Security and Strategy Tsinghua University and China Forum expert.

Senior Colonel Zhou Bo has published more than 100 essays and opinions in English in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Financial Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Australian, South China Morning Post, The Diplomat, Strait Times,China~US Focus and China Daily, etc. He had exclusive interviews with BBC, NBC, Time, Euronews, Channel NewsAsia (Singapore), NHK, Russia Today, CNBC and CGTN. He speaks as a PLA delegate at Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore and at Munich Security conference.   He is supervisor to foreign post-graduate officers at PLA National Defense University.

Senior Colonel Zhou Bo is an under-graduate of Air Force Engineering College  and a postgraduate of St Edmund College of Cambridge University (Mphill in International Relations). He was a visiting fellow to the Land Warfare Studies Centre of the Australian Army in 1999. He has attended various courses in Harvard University, Westminster University, PLA National Defense University, PLA University of Science and Technology for the National Defense and PLA Army Command College (Shijiazhuang).