These highly respected experts will deepen your understanding of China’s past, present and future, revealing a path for successful international relationships.
Whitney Jennings | June 26, 2025
In today’s rapidly evolving global landscape, understanding China’s economic, technological and geopolitical trajectory is essential. We’re proud to represent a select group of world-class experts who offer deep, actionable insights into China’s role on the global stage.
These thought leaders – spanning Nobel laureates, renowned academics, seasoned analysts and best-selling authors – bring clarity to complexity, helping organizations make better-informed decisions in uncertain times. Whether you’re navigating AI disruption, supply chain strategy or cross-border policy shifts, our speakers and advisors illuminate the path forward.
The Path to Prominence: China and U.S. Relations Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Nobel Prize recipient Paul Romer, Ph.D., (Boston College) highlights the innovations that enabled China’s return to global prominence and explains how these two superpowers can shape their interactions and leverage their competition in ways that benefit everyone involved.
Dan Wang Reveals Where China’s Tech Industry Is Today and Where It’s Going Tomorrow
Dan Wang (Stanford) is a top-cited expert on geopolitics, China and its technology strategies. He sheds light on the US-China trade war, tech innovation races including China’s regulatory actions – policies on everything from semiconductors to TikTok – and how AI and clean technology cannot be grasped without understanding China. Dan’s highly anticipated book, “Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future” explores the contrast between the world’s two superpowers, America’s “lawyerly society” and China’s “engineering state.”
Precarious Ties: Navigating State-Business Relations in Authoritarian Asia
Meg Rithmire, Ph.D., (Harvard Business School) is a leading expert and award-winning authority on the reform and expansion of Chinese capitalism and its interaction with the rest of the world. Fluent in Mandarin, she offers leaders vital knowledge about the effects China’s intricate economy has on trade today and the multifaceted intertwining of politics, the economy and international affairs in the global market.
Navigating Today’s Geopolitical Landscape With Lessons From History
Eli Lake, host of the wildly popular Breaking History podcast, is a renowned journalist, geopolitical analyst and contributing editor and columnist at The Free Press. A gifted storyteller with a fresh and accessible perspective, Eli offers logical arguments on politics and policy – from the Middle East to trade wars – while uncovering the connections between today’s events and pivotal moments from the past to help leaders make better decisions as they navigate uncertainty.
Navigating the New Politics of Trade, Supply Chains and Green Energy
Jonas Nahm, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins) is a political economist, award-winning author and an expert on trade and economic policy in China, the US and Europe. Drawing on deep academic expertise and real-world policy experience, Nahm equips executives with practical frameworks to navigate uncertainty, assess supply chain resilience, and understand the long-term implications of tariffs, decoupling and techno-industrial competition.
The Future of U.S.-China Relations and What It Means for Global Business
Julian Gewirtz, Ph.D., (Harvard Kennedy School) the former Senior Director for China and Taiwan Affairs at the National Security Council, is one of today’s sharpest minds on geopolitical, economic and regional issues across the world. An expert on U.S. foreign policy, Chinese politics and the next chapter of U.S.-China economic competition who was named one of the “50 people shaping our society in 2025” (The Washington Post), he speaks with rare clarity about how China’s leadership sees the world and what it means for corporate risk, regulation and opportunity across sectors.
Make Better Investment Decisions Using the SPI Index
CEO of the Social Progress Imperative, Michael Green is a renowned global economist and pioneer in measuring which societies are succeeding and which are not. Using his rich dataset, the Social Progress Index, which examines the real conditions in which citizens live and work, Michael equips investors and asset managers with insights to reduce long-term risk and direct capital toward sustainable, high-impact opportunities.
Practical Scenarios for Planning a Future With AI
Kevin Kelly (WIRED magazine) is one of the world’s most influential speakers and writers on the future and technological change. A digital visionary, he brings organizations tangible, scenario-based insights for integrating AI into our lives and businesses. Author of The New York Times bestseller “The Inevitable” (2016), “Vanishing Asia” (2022) and “Excellent Advice For Living” (2023), his upcoming book, “The World of 2049,” which will be published in Chinese, proposes multiple versions of what reality could potentially look like within the next 25 years.
GeoTech: Where Geopolitics Meets Emerging Technology
Olaf Groth, Ph.D., (UC Berkeley Haas School of Business) the founding CEO of Cambrian Futures, is an expert at linking new technology to other ongoing social, political and environmental shifts around the world. Groth gives leaders the right questions to ask about the intersection between tech and geopolitics, and lays out the tectonic forces business leaders need to integrate into their business strategy – COVID and CRISPR; Cognitive technology; Crypto; Cybersecurity; Climate change; and China.
The Cyber Threat Landscape and Why You Should Care
Multi-award-winning cybersecurity veteran and president of the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise Chris Painter helps organizations and individuals understand cyber risk, respond and prepare for cyberattacks, and establish cybersecurity policies. He is also an expert on the international aspects and geopolitical challenges of cyber threats – particularly nation state sponsored hackers from Russia, China, Iran and North Korea – and why organizations should be concerned.
Demystifying China’s Climate Policy
Angel Hsu, Ph.D., (UNC Chapel Hill) is a pioneering climate and data scientist who draws on her deep research into China and the global south to reveal how Chinese leaders plan to make the transition to green energy. Fluent in Mandarin, she illuminates how their decisions may affect their relationship with the U.S. and the rest of the world’s energy players and how the U.S. and China can improve cooperation and competition.
Increase Your Artificial Intelligence ROI
David De Cremer, Ph.D., (dean of Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business; formerly at Singapore’s NUS Business School and the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)) founder of the Centre on AI Technology for Humankind, is a global authority standing at the intersection of leadership, AI and the future of work. For audiences of any level of knowledge, from the C-suite to the front lines, particularly for big tech, insurance and financial services organizations, his award-wining book “The AI-Savvy Leader,” is the ultimate manual for leading and succeeding in the age of AI.
Leaders need expert insights to visualize how different nations around the world are likely to interact and how it will affect business and geopolitical dynamics. Stern Strategy Group connects you with renowned thought leaders whose insights, strategies and management frameworks help organizations fuel growth and disruptive innovation to better compete in a constantly changing world. Let us arrange for these esteemed experts to advise your organization via virtual and in-person consulting sessions, workshops and keynotes.
