Matteo Garavoglia is Professor of Practice at the Department of International Relations and Research Director at the Center for China - EU Relations at the School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing. At the same time, he is Senior Research Associate within the SEESOX Programme of the European Studies Centre at the University of Oxford (St. Antony’s College) and Research Fellow at the Barcelona Institute of International Studies (IBEI). His research work focuses on European integration, the European public sphere, European foreign policy and European Union - China relations. Previously, Matteo Garavoglia was visiting Associate Professor at Tsinghua University’s Department of International Relations. He also served as the (at the time youngest) Italy Program Fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Centre on the United States and Europe in Washington DC and as Adjunct Professor at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. Matteo has also been Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington DC, Visiting Professor at Bocconi University in Milan, Research Fellow at the Centre d’Études Européennes de Sciences Po in Paris and Research Assistant at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Earlier on, he worked with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Matteo Garavoglia has been teaching or speaking at, amongst others, the University of Oxford, Harvard University, Princeton University, Columbia University, Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, Sciences Po Paris, the Hertie School of Governance, Humboldt University and Free University in Berlin, Heidelberg University, Vienna University of Economics, Bocconi University in Milan, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Tongji University in Shanghai and Tsinghua University, Schwarzman College and Renmin University in Beijing. His work has been published or quoted by, amongst others, the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, National Interest, the Atlantic, Voice of America, ABC News, NBC News, National Public Radio, China Global Television Network, Bloomberg, Fortune, the Washington Post, Al Jazeera, Politico, Deutsche Welle, CNN, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs and Southern China Morning Post. His latest book monograph “Mind the European Gap - Reconciling National Politics and Supranational Policy-Making” has been published by Springer Nature. A dual German and Italian citizen, Matteo Garavoglia lived in fourteen countries across four continents and speaks Italian, English, Spanish, French and some German. He lives between Beijing, Oxford, Barcelona and Berlin.

Peter Dutton is a Senior Research Scholar in Law and Senior Fellow in the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School. Before joining the Center, he was professor of international law in the Stockton Center for International Law at the U.S. Naval War College. He also served as dean (interim) of the Center for Naval Warfare Studies, as director of the China Maritime Studies Institute, and as professor of joint military operations.

Dutton served the U.S. Navy for more than 40 years in active duty and civilian capacities. His active-duty career began as a naval flight officer in a variety of aircraft, including the A-6E Intruder, with operations in the Caribbean, Pacific, and European theaters. As a Judge Advocate, his active-duty deployments include with Carrier Group Six, on board the USS John F. Kennedy, deployed to the Persian Gulf in support of Operation Southern Watch and other operations. He worked with and advised a series of Pacific Fleet Commanders, Secretaries of Defense, Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other government offices on  policies in the Asia-Pacific region.  He also testified before the Senate and the House of Representatives on a variety of China-related issues.

Dutton's research is interdisciplinary, combining international law, China studies, and international politics, including geostrategic theory. His writings focus on international law of the sea and air, with an emphasis on the East and South China Seas, and geo-political strategy. Additional research interests include Chinese views of sovereignty and international law, international law and Taiwan, and the strategic implications of China's maritime expansion. He is a non-resident affiliate in research at Harvard University Fairbank Center for China Studies, and a non-resident affiliated scholar at the US-Asia Law Institute at New York University School of Law. Dutton holds a Ph.D. in War Studies from King's College London, a J.D. from the College of William & Mary, an M.A. from the U.S. Naval War College, and a B.S. from Boston University.

Rana Mitter is ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is the author of several books, including Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II (2013) which won the 2014 RUSI/Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military Literature, and was named a Book of the Year in the Financial Times and Economist. His latest book is China’s Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism (Harvard, 2020). His writing on contemporary China has appeared recently in Foreign Affairs, the Harvard Business Review, The Spectator, The Critic, and The Guardian.  He has commented regularly on China in media and forums around the world, including at the World Economic Forum at Davos. His recent documentary on contemporary Chinese politics "Meanwhile in Beijing" is available on BBC Sounds.  He is co-author, with Sophia Gaston, of the report “Conceptualizing a UK-China Engagement Strategy” (British Foreign Policy Group, 2020). He won the 2020 Medlicott Medal for Service to History, awarded by the UK Historical Association.  He previously taught at Oxford, and is a Fellow of the British Academy.

Maria Adele Carrai is an Assistant Professor of Global China Studies at NYU Shanghai. Her research explores the history of international law in East Asia and investigates how China’s rise as a global power shapes norms and redefines the international distribution of power. She co-leads the Research Initiative 'Mapping Global China,' and is the author of Sovereignty in China. A Geneology of a Concept since 1840 (CUP 2019) and co-editor of The China Questions 2 - Critical Insights into US-China Relations (HUP 2022). Before joining NYU Shanghai, she was a recipient of a three-year Marie-Curie fellowship at KU Leuven. She was also a Fellow at the Italian Academy of Columbia University, Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program, Max Weber Program of the European University Institute of Florence, and New York University Law School.

Rory Truex is an Assistant Professor in Princeton's Department of Politics and Princeton's School of Public and International Affairs. His research focuses on Chinese politics and theories of authoritarian rule. His book Making Autocracy Work: Representation and Responsiveness in Modern China investigates the nature of representation in authoritarian systems, specifically the politics surrounding China's National People's Congress (NPC). He argues that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is engineering a system of “representation within bounds” in the NPC, fostering information revelation but silencing political activism. Original data on deputy backgrounds and behaviors is used to explore the nature of representation, policymaking, and incentives in this constrained system. He is currently working on a new set of projects on repression, human rights, and dissent in contemporary China. His research has been published in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Comparative Political Studies, China Quarterly, among other journals.