UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, October 19, 2022 —  Asia Society Northern California Center (ASNC), partnered with UC Berkeley School of Law's Center for Law & Technology to host a hybrid discussion on Pathways for U.S.-China Research Collaboration. This event featured two panels with expert speakers from a variety of fields on Current Challenges and Pathways Forward.

The ability of the U.S. and China to collaborate in private and public scientific research increasingly looms as a challenge that can affect all of humanity in our efforts to address pandemics, global climate change, and other shared human and planetary challenges. To some observers, however, research has become impossible due to concerns over national security, human rights, and theft.

Speakers include the following; their extended bios can be found here.

Panel 1: Current Challenges 

• Mark Cohen (Moderator), Advisory Council Member, Asia Society Northern California | Senior Fellow and Director, Asia IP Law Project, University of California Berkeley Center For Law & Technology
• Jonathan Adams, Chief Scientist, Institute for Scientific Information, Clarivate | Visiting Professor, Policy Institute, King’s College London
• Rebecca Arcesati, Analyst, Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), Berlin
• He Jing, Partner, GEN Law Firm
• Orville Schell, Advisory Council Member, Asia Society Northern California | Arthur Ross Director, Center on U.S.-China Relations, Asia Society in New York
• Caroline Wagner, Professor, John Glenn College of Public Affairs, Ohio State University 

Panel 2: Pathways Forward 

• Glenn Tiffert (Moderator), Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
• Georgina Jones Suzuki, Strategic IP Transactions Associate, Ropes & Gray
• Dr. Michael Lauer, Deputy Director for Extramural Research, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Margaret K. Lewis, Professor of Law, Seton Hall University, Seton Hall Law School 
• Margaret E. Roberts, Professor of Political Science, UC San Diego
• Denis Fred Simon, Senior Adviser to the President for China Affairs, Duke University | Professor of China Business and Technology at Duke's Fuqua School of Business