Dr. Dean P. Chen is Professor of Political Science at the School of Humanities and Global Studies, Ramapo College of New Jersey. He holds his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is the author of three books on U.S.-Taiwan and cross-strait relations: U.S.-China-Taiwan in the Age of Trump and Biden: Towards a Nationalist Strategy (New York: Routledge, 2022), U.S.-China Rivalry and Taiwan’s Mainland Policy: Security, Nationalism, and the 1992 Consensus(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), and U.S.-Taiwan Strait Policy: TheOrigins of Strategic Ambiguity (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2012). His articles have appeared in Asian Survey, Asian security, Asian Politics & Policy, Pacific Focus, and International Relations of the Asia-Pacific. Commentaries and policy analyses have appeared in the East West Center Occasional Paper Series, The National Interest, Global Taiwan Brief, Taiwan Insight, and China-US Focus. In 2014-16, Chen served as coordinator of the Conference Group on Taiwan Studies of the American Political Science Association (APSA). He was a Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) Taiwan Fellow in 2014 and a Fulbright U.S. Scholar in the People's Republic of China during 2017-18. Currently, Chen serves on the Board of Directors of the American Association for Chinese Studies (AACS). In November 2023, Chen received a grant from the Taipei Economic & Cultural Representative Office (TECRO) in Washington DC to host the annual Taiwan & Asia Program conference at Ramapo College of New Jersey. The conference featured China and Taiwan experts in the United States and around the world to discuss and examine the changing US-China-Taiwan strategic relations in light of the 2024 presidential elections in Taiwan and the United States.

Dr. Seong-Hyon Lee is a Senior Fellow at the George H.W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations and holds the position of Visiting Scholar at Harvard University Asia Center. He has extensive experience in China, the Korean Peninsula, and East Asia. He has provided briefings to South Korean presidential candidates. A Seoul native, Dr. Lee has lived a total of 22 years in the United States, China, and Japan, including 11 years in Beijing. He served as an internal reviewer for the International Crisis Group (ICG), focusing on geopolitical analysis, including the China-North Korea intrigue. He was a Pantech Fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University. He has earned degrees from both Harvard University and Tsinghua University, the alma mater of Xi Jinping. He was a visiting scholar at the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, a Salzburg Global Fellow, and served as a faculty member for the Salzburg Seminar. He gave lectures and led workshops in Korean, Chinese, and English—all three languages. He delivered a nationwide television lecture, the JTBC "Distinguished Lecture" (차이나는 클라스). He is the author of the bestseller titled 'The U.S.-China Competition: Who Will Rule the World?' (2019). He is currently writing a book, "100-Year Competition Between the U.S. and China: China's Rise and America's Response," set to be published in 2024. Previously, he held positions as the Director of the Center for Chinese Studies and the Director of the Department of Unification Studies at the Sejong Institute, a policy think tank in Seoul. His interviews & comments appeared in the New York Times, BBC, Bloomberg, CNN, Barron’s, Los Angeles Times, PBS NewsHour, The National Interest, Nikkei Asia, South China Morning Post, Japan Times, JoongAng, and Straits Times. He continues to write columns for South Korean newspapers.

Sean King joined Park Strategies, a business advisory firm founded by former U.S. Senator Alfonse D'Amato, in 2006. His focus is Asia, generating business and supporting clients in the region. He helped manage the firm’s Taipei office from 2010-16. Mr. King is also a University of Notre Dame Liu Institute for Asia & Asian Affairs Affiliated Scholar. In October 2022, he was a Visiting Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), an autonomous think tank and graduate school within Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Before joining Park Strategies, Mr. King spent five years at the United States Department of Commerce in Washington, DC, where he served as Senior Advisor for Asia in the U.S. & Foreign Commercial Service (USFCS). Before joining Commerce, Mr. King was based in Singapore for both PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Citibank. He has an MBA from Notre Dame and an undergraduate degree from the American University in Washington, D.C. A regular media presence, Mr. King first visited Taiwan in 1997 where he also interned for Citibank in 1998.