Jamie Shona Gorelick is an American lawyer who served as the Deputy Attorney General of the United States from 1994 to 1997,during the Clinton administration. She has been a partner at WilmerHale since 2003 and has served on the board of directors of Amazon since February 2012.
The School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) is a graduate school of Johns Hopkins University based in Washington,D.C. The school also maintains campuses in Bologna,Italy and Nanjing,China.
Carla Anderson Hills is an American lawyer and former government official. A member of the Republican Party,she previously served as the 5th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Gerald Ford from 1975 to 1977 and as the 10th United States Trade Representative under President George H. W. Bush from 1989 to 1993. Hills was the first woman to hold each of those posts,the third woman ever to serve in a presidential cabinet,and the first appointed to both cabinet and cabinet-rank positions. Hills is the earliest-serving living former U.S. Cabinet member.
Eugene Benton Sperling is an American lawyer who was director of the National Economic Council and assistant to the president for economic policy under Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. He is the only person to serve as national economic advisor under two presidents. Outside of government,he founded the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution in 2002.
Clayland Boyden Gray was an American lawyer and diplomat who served as White House Counsel from 1981 to 1993 and as U.S. Ambassador to the European Union from 2006 to 2007. He was a founding partner of the Washington,D.C.–based law firm Boyden Gray &Associates LLP.
Clifford Michael Sobel is an American business executive,financier,Republican fundraiser,U.S. diplomat and former ambassador.
Robert Michael Kimmitt was United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury under President George W. Bush. He was nominated by President Bush on June 29,2005. The United States Senate unanimously confirmed him on July 29,2005,and he was sworn into office on August 16,2005. Kimmitt served through the end of the Bush administration,leaving office on January 20,2009.
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP,also known as Hale &Dorr and WilmerHale,is an American multinational law firm with offices in the United States,Europe,and Asia. Co-headquartered in Washington,D.C.,and Boston,it was formed in 2004 through the merger of the Boston-based firm Hale and Dorr and the D.C.-based firm Wilmer Cutler &Pickering. It employs more than 1,000 attorneys worldwide.
Wendy Nicole Duong,née Dương NhưNguyện,is the first Vietnamese-American to hold judicial office in the United States. In 1992,she was appointed Associate Municipal Judge for the City of Houston and Magistrate for the State of Texas. She was then honored by the American Bar Association in New York City as among “Pioneer Women of Color in the Judiciary.”After serving a three-year term,she resigned to become an international lawyer for Mobil Corporation - Asia-Pacific. In 2001,she joined the faculty of University of Denver,Sturm College of Law,as a corporate law and international business transactions professor. A Fulbright Core Program Legal Scholar to Asia and Fulbright Legal Specialist to Russia,Duong also combined her legal career with novel writing,and was scouted by the publishing division of Amazon,Inc.,which published her historical fiction trilogy featuring Vietnam’s decolonization,the fall of Saigon,immigrant life,and women’s themes. The third novel,Mimi and Her Mirror,won the Multicultural Fiction International Book Award in 2012. She currently practices law in Houston and writes full-time.
William F. Lee is an American intellectual property and commercial litigation trial attorney. As co-managing partner of WilmerHale,Lee was the first Asian-American to lead a major American law firm. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Harvard Corporation,the governing board of Harvard University.
Roberto Dañino is a Peruvian lawyer who was a former Prime Minister of Peru. He was also the Peruvian Ambassador to the United States and the Senior Vice President and General Counsel of The World Bank. He has practiced corporate law for several decades and was the Chairman of the Latin American practice of leading law firms in the United States and Perú. He has also served on the boards of various corporations and nonprofit organizations in Peru,the United States,Canada,South Africa,Spain,and the United Kingdom. Currently,he is a member of various corporate boards and philanthropic entities in Peru and the USA. He is also a member of the international advisory boards of Goldman Sachs,NTT Data,Albright Stonebridge Group and Inversiones Centenario. He was awarded the Order of the Sun of Peru in 2003,which is the highest honor bestowed on a Peruvian citizen.
Nancy LeaMond currently serves as AARP's Chief Advocacy and Engagement Officer. She leads government relations and campaigns for AARP,widely seen as one of the most powerful advocacy organizations in the country. She also oversees AARP's public education and outreach initiatives designed to help Americans take charge of their health and better plan,work,and save for retirement. She was formerly CEO/President for five years of the Congressional Economic Leadership Institute,a public policy group founded in 1987 to identify and research emerging international economic,trade,technology,tax and workforce issues.
Diplomatic relations between Switzerland and the United States were established in 1853 by the U.S. and in 1868 by Switzerland. The first diplomatic representation of the U.S. was established in Basel in 1853.
David Isaac Adelman is an American businessman,lawyer and diplomat. He was the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore from April 2010 to September 2013. Adelman is the Managing Director and General Counsel of asset manager Krane Funds Advisors in New York. He is a Trustee of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. For more than a decade he has taught international relations as an adjunct professor at New York University.Adelman's official papers are part of the collection at the Richard B. Russell Library at the University of Georgia. In 2016,in recognition of his public service the State of Georgia dedicated a bridge as the Ambassador David Adelman Bridge on State Highway 42. Adelman is a member of the Advisory Council of the Israel-Asia Center.
Kenneth Ian Juster is a veteran American diplomat,who served as the United States Ambassador to India from 2017 to 2021. He is currently senior counselor at the global law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer,senior adviser at the institutional investor CDPQ,strategic adviser at the software company Salesforce,and distinguished fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Blank Rome is a law firm with 16 offices and 750 attorneys and principals who provide legal and advocacy services to clients in the United States and around the world.
Michael Braverman Goodman Froman is an American lawyer who is the current president of the Council on Foreign Relations. Froman served as the U.S. Trade Representative from 2013 to 2017. He was Assistant to the President of the United States and Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs,a position held jointly at the National Security Council and the National Economic Council. In that position he served as the United States sherpa to the G7,G8,and G20 summits of economic powers. On May 2,2013,President Barack Obama nominated him to succeed Ambassador Ron Kirk as the U.S. Trade Representative. He was confirmed on June 19,2013.
Barbara Hackman Franklin is an American government official,corporate director,and business executive. She served as the 29th U.S. Secretary of Commerce from 1992 to 1993 to President George H. W. Bush,during which she led a presidential mission to China.
The US–China Education Trust is a non-profit organization based in Washington D.C. Founded in 1998 by Ambassador Julia Chang Bloch,the first Chinese-American U.S. Ambassador,USCET seeks to promote China–United States relations through a series of education and exchange programs. The organization sponsors a variety of fellowships,conferences,workshops and exchanges,focused primarily on strengthening Chinese academic institutions related to the fields of American Studies,Media and Journalism,American Governance,and International Relations.
The China–United States Exchange Foundation is a Hong Kong-based nonprofit organization whose stated aim is to encourage dialogue and exchanges between the people of the United States and China. CUSEF was founded in 2008 by Tung Chee-hwa,a billionaire,former Chief Executive of Hong Kong,and former vice chairperson of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference,who remains the chairman emeritus of the foundation. CUSEF's governing board has included members such as Ronnie Chan,Elsie Leung,and Victor Fung.
