Barry Naughton
Barry Naughton, an economist, is So Kwanlok Professor at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego. His most recent book, The Rise of China’s Industrial Policy, 1978-2020, is available now as a free down load, or in print from Lynne Rienner.
Alan Wolff
Alan Wolff recently returned to the J.S. from a three and a half years term as a Deputy Director General of the WTO. He has had a long career in trade policy, starting at the US Treasury, serving as Deputy U.S. Trade Negotiator, as an advisor to Democratic and Republican Administrations, creating one of the world’s largest and most successful international trade practices as a private lawyer and serving as Chairman of the National Foreign Trade Council, the oldest U.S. trade association backing open trade. He is now a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE). His many recent writings on trade and related subjects can be found by searching the web for “alan wolff at wto.org”.
Lisa Jorgenson
Lisa Jorgenson is the Deputy Director General, Patents and Technology Sector at the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva, Switzerland which administers the Patent Cooperation Treaty. She also manages patent and technology legislative and policy advice and programs relating to the law of patents. She is the first female in this role and is one of three female Deputy Director Generals appointed on January 1, 2021. She was previously the Executive Director at the American Intellectual Property Law Association in Arlington, VA and the Group Vice President, Intellectual Property and Licensing at STMicroelectronics in Coppell, Texas.
Maria Martin-Prat
Ms. Martin-Prat is responsible for the areas of Services and Digital Trade, Investment and Intellectual Property. She is also responsible for trade and investment relations with China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Mongolia. In her capacity, she is also the Commission’s Chief Negotiator for the negotiations with China on a bilateral investment agreement. Before her current post Ms. Martin-Prat was the Head of the Copyright Unit in the European Commission. Prior responsibilities include being the Head of Unit responsible for free movement of services and freedom of establishment in the European Commission and being a member of Commissioner Joaquin Almunia’s Cabinet. Ms Martin-Prat has also worked as a lawyer in the private sector and in the European Parliament. Ms. Martin-Prat is admitted as a solicitor in Spain and has two postgraduate degrees in European Law.
Petros C. Mavroidis
Petros C. Mavroidis of Columbia Law. He served as a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) legal affairs division from 1992 to 1995 and has been a legal adviser to the WTO since 1996. He was the chief co-rapporteur for the American Law Institute study “Principles of International Trade: The WTO” (2013).
Warren Maruyama
Warren Maruyama is a partner in Hogan Lovells’ International Trade and Investment practice. He served as USTR General Counsel from 2007-2009 during the George W. Bush Administration and as Associate Director for International Economic Policy on the White House Policy Development staff for President George H.W. Bush.
James Mendenhall
Mr. Mendenhall is a partner in the Global Arbitration, Trade and Advocacy group in the law firm of Sidley in Washington, D.C., where he concentrates on international trade policy, international arbitration, and proceedings before the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). From 2005 to January 2007, Mr. Mendenhall served as the General Counsel of the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR). Prior to that time, Mr. Mendenhall served as the Assistant USTR for Services, Investment, and Intellectual Property.
Wendy Cutler
Wendy Cutler is Vice President at the Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI) and the managing director of the Washington, D.C. office. In these roles, she focuses on building ASPI’s presence in the nation’s capital and on leading initiatives that address challenges related to trade, investment and innovation, as well as women’s empowerment in Asia. She joined ASPI following an illustrious career of nearly three decades as a diplomat and negotiator in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), where she also served as Acting Deputy U.S. Trade Representative. During her USTR career, she worked on a range of bilateral, regional and multilateral trade negotiations and initiatives, including the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement, the Trans Pacific Partnership, U.S.-China negotiations and the WTO Financial Services negotiations. She has published a series of ASPI papers on the Asian trade landscape, and serves as a regular media commentator on trade and investment developments in Asia and the world.
Sam duPont
Sam duPont is Deputy Director of the Digital Innovation & Democracy Initiative at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. He previously served as Director for Digital Trade at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
Philip Rogers
Philip Rogers is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Berkley’s political science department. His research draws upon the nexus of law, policy, and business to study China’s regulatory frameworks for technological innovation in domestic and international contexts. Before coming to Berkeley, he worked on transnational corporate law cases as a paralegal at the Shanghai office of Zhong Lun Law Firm.
Jimmy Goodrich
Jimmy Goodrich is the Vice President of Global Policy at the Semiconductor Industry Association where he leads the industry’s trade and global policy work. This includes promoting U.S. semiconductor competitiveness, strengthening global supply chains, in addition to working on trade and market access issues for chip firms globally. Prior to joining SIA Jimmy held a number of China-focused roles, including working for seven years in Beijing for Cisco Systems and a number of other ICT organizations.
Chad Bown
Chad Bown is Reginald Jones Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, DC. He previously served as senior economist for international trade and investment in the White House on the Council of Economic Advisers, as a lead economist at the World Bank, and a Professor of Economics at Brandeis University.
Jay Bratt
Jay Bratt is the Chief of the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section (CES) of the National Security Division in the Department of Justice. CES is responsible for overseeing all prosecutions involving the Espionage Act, economic espionage, export control and sanctions violations, state-sponsored cyber intrusions, and malign foreign influence. It also administers the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). Before becoming Chief, Mr. Bratt was also CES’ Principal Deputy Chief and its Deputy Chief for Export Control and Sanctions. He previously served as the Deputy Chief of the National Security Section in the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. Before that, Mr. Bratt had many years of experience as a line prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and within the Department of Justice. Mr. Bratt is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Brandeis University.
Suzanne Harrison
Suzanne S. Harrison is an author, patent futurist, and economist. She works with companies to help them realize the true value of their intellectual property.
She is a Founder and Principal of Percipience LLC, a board-level advisory group focused on IP strategy, management, and quantifying and mitigating IP risk.
Her work with clients gives her a unique view of the inner workings of the public market for patents, as well as the ability to see patterns and predict ways in which markets will fluctuate and develop.
Since 1995, she has led a group called the ICM Gathering, an invitation-only group of 20 companies that meet regularly to define, create, benchmark and test best practices in IP management. Her books draw on her work with the Gathering, and feature success stories of companies leading the way in innovative IP management.
She holds an undergraduate degree in economics from UC Davis, and an MBA from the University of Chicago. She lives in San Francisco, CA, with her husband and two children.
Michael Loch
Michael Loch is the Head of Intellectual Property at the GSMA. He is responsible for standardisation, intellectual property and other technology related matters in the GSMA. Michael is an English qualified solicitor with almost 25 years industry experience.
He has worked at Alcatel, Hitachi and Nokia before joining the GSMA 12 years ago.
Jeannette Chu
Jeannette, a Managing Director in PwC’s Advisory practice, c0-leads PwC’s national security regulatory compliance practice focusing on Export Controls and Sanctions (ECS). She leads a team of subject matter specialists in assisting multinational and U.S.-based companies in understanding and managing compliance risks relating to export controls, sanctions, embargoes and antiboycott compliance. Jeannette is a recognized thought leader on the ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations), EAR (Export Administration Regulations) and trade sanctions administered by the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).
Prior to joining PwC, Jeannette served as a Senior Policy Advisor at the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), US Department of Commerce where she worked on export control reform, ,export licensing and foreign policy matters. She also served as the Senior Export Control Attache at the American Embassy Beijing for nearly six years, conducting end-use visits to more than 250 locations across China. Jeannette’s public service career covers 31 years of federal investigative and enforcement experience across several federal agencies. She leverages her unique background and deep experience to help clients successfully navigate interagency processes such as addressing and resolving enforcement and licensing matters.
Jeannette is a frequent and highly sought after speaker on export controls, sanctions and China business matters. She has served on the faculty for American Bar Association, the Practicing Law Institute and the American Conference Institute, and has published several articles on export controls and trade sanctions compliance. In 2016, Jeannette received Honorable Mention for Export Control Practitioner of the Year by WorldECR. Jeannette received her B.A. in Political Science from American University in Washington, D.C.
Lindsay Gorman
Lindsay Gorman is the Fellow for Emerging Technologies at the Alliance for Securing Democracy. Before joining GMF, she ran a technology consulting firm, Politech Advisory, working with start-up companies and venture capital firms in artificial intelligence and FinTech. She was also an adjunct fellow in CSIS’s Technology Policy Program. Lindsay built her policy career in the Office of U.S. Senator Mark Warner, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the National Academy of Sciences. In addition to bipartisan legislation, she crafted policy guidance on cybersecurity and cyber warfare, autonomous vehicles, smart cities, FinTech and financial regulation, artificial intelligence, disease surveillance, advanced manufacturing, and the internet of things. At the National Academy of Sciences, she supported the Committee on International Security and Arms Control in track II nuclear and cyber security dialogues with Chinese and Russian experts. Lindsay’s technical expertise lies in artificial intelligence, statistical machine learning, and quantum materials. She has published a Nature Physics paper on topological insulators and programmed AI systems for a self-driving car in the DARPA Urban Challenge. Lindsay holds an A.B. in physics from Princeton University, where she graduated magna cum laude, and a M.S. in applied physics from Stanford University.
Dan Farber
professor of environmental law at Berkeley and the faculty director of the Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment. I am also on the faculty advisory board for the California-China Climate Change Institute (CCCI)
Keith Yamamoto
Dr Keith Yamamoto is a molecular biologist at UCSF; he is also Vice Chancellor for Science Policy & Strategy, and Director of UCSF Precision Medicine. Prior to holding those positions, he was concurrently UCSF’s Vice Chancellor for Research and Vice Dean for Research in the School of Medicine. He has chaired or served on many national policy advisory panels and commissions, including the working group for the recent report, “Meeting the China Challenge: A New American Strategy for Technology Competition”.
Andrei Iancu
Andrei Iancu is a partner at Irell & Manella. He previously was the Undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Recently, he co-founded the Renewing American Innovation project at the bipartisan Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Gary Rieschel
Gary Rieschel is the Founding Managing Partner of Qiming Venture Partners, a VC firm based in China and the United States with over $6B deployed in the Chinese market. Gary has been a venture capitalist for 25 years, first establishing the Softbank Venture Capital Group in 1995, and subsequently Qiming.
He has held senior executive positions at Intel, Sequent, Cisco, and Softbank, and is on the boards of Asia Society, Atlantic Council, Climate Leadership Council, TNC, PERC, and Reed College.
Dan Lang
Dan Lang is Vice President, Intellectual Property and Deputy General Counsel at Cisco Systems. He was a member of the US Patent Public Advisory Committee (PPAC) from 2015 to 2020 Dan received a JD from UC Berkeley School of Law in 1993 where he served as Senior Articles Editor of the High Technology Law Journal. Prior to beginning his legal career, he also worked in the defense electronics industry after receiving an MSEE from Stanford University in 1987 and a BSEE from Case Western Reserve University in 1986.
Christal Sheppard
Dr. Christal Sheppard PhD. J.D. has nearly 3 decades of science, intellectual property law and policy experience covering a large proportion of the IP ecosystem, both private and public. Her experience includes serving as chief counsel of patent and trademarks in the United States House of Representatives, notably during the completion of the AIA; as the first Director of the first USPTO Regional Office; as a member of the Administration’s Public Patent Advisory Committee; in the International Trade Commission’s General Counsel’s Office, and started her legal career at Foley & Lardner after short stints at the White House OSTP and with the CAFC. Dr. Sheppard public service career includes her completion of Senior Executive Programs at Harvard Kennedy School of Government, the Federal Executive Institute and others. Currently she is very active in teaching IP to law students, working on the intersection of public policy and advances in science, and she does a great deal of IP community volunteer work.
Denis Simon
My topic will focus on talent development, education exchange and the challenges facing both the US and China. I will talk about the rapid development of China’s high end talent pool and the degree to which talent is becoming a source of competitive advantage for the PRC. Then I will draw some implications for the US in terms of some “to dos” for the USG and for society as a whole.
Rob Atkinson
As founder and president of ITIF, recognized as the world’s top think tank for science and technology policy, Rob Atkinson leads a prolific team of policy analysts that is successfully shaping the debate and setting the agenda on a host of critical issues at the intersection of technological innovation and public policy. During the Obama administration he served as co-chair of the White House U.S. China Innovation Experts Group, and is the author of numerous books, including Big is Beautiful: Debunking the Mythology of Small Business (MIT Press, 2018).
Carol Mimura
Carol Mimura is the Asst. Vice Chancellor in UC Berkeley’s Office of Intellectual Property and Industry Research Alliances (IPIRA).
IPIRA is responsible for three primary activities:
- bringing in sponsored research funding and other resources from companies,
- obtaining IP rights and licensing them to companies of all sizes, and,
- helping entrepreneurs and startup companies.