She was previously an assistant professor of security studies at Georgetown University. She is also a non-resident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and continues to serve in the United States Air Force Reserve as a strategic planner at Indo-Pacific Command. For her contributions to U.S. strategy in Asia, she won the Individual Reservist of the Year Award in 2016 (CGO) and 2022 (FGO). She has published widely, including in International Security, Security Studies, Foreign Affairs, the Journal of Strategic Studies, The Washington Quarterly, the Economist, and the New York Times. Her most recent book, Upstart: How China Became a Great Power (Oxford University Press, 2024), evaluates China’s approach to competition. Her book, The Costs of Conversation: Obstacles to Peace Talks in Wartime (Cornell University Press, 2019), won the 2020 American Political Science Association International Security Section Best Book by an Untenured Faculty Member. She holds a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Stanford University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University.

He has presented on these topics throughout the United States, Asia, and Europe to government and corporate decision-makers. Mr. Kamphausen served as a Commissioner on the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission from 2018–2021. Prior to joining NBR, Mr. Kamphausen served as a career U.S. Army officer. As a China foreign area officer, his career included assignments as China policy director in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, China strategist for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and a military attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. Mr. Kamphausen holds a BA in Political Science from Wheaton College and an MA in International Affairs from Columbia University. He studied Chinese at both the Defense Language Institute and Beijing’s Capital Normal University. He is a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. He is married to Arminda and they have three children—Abigail, Hudson, and Lane.

Before joining SIPRI, Dr Gill held the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He also served as a Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies and inaugural Director of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. Among his international honours, Dr Gill holds the Royal Order of the Commander of the Polar Star (post-nominal: KNO), the highest award bestowed upon foreigners by the Swedish monarch, for his contributions to Swedish interests. Dr Gill is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, serves on the board of the Rajaratnam School of International Studies (Singapore), and is a member of the International Council of Advisors for the Shanghai Institutes of International Studies. From 2021 to 2022, he was the Asia Society Australia inaugural Scholar in Residence and in 2016 held the Sir Howard Kippenberger Chair in Strategic Studies at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Dr Gill received his Ph.D. in Foreign Affairs with a concentration on East Asia from the University of Virginia, USA.

. He has worked in two Australian Federal Government ministers’ offices. As the First Assistant Secretary for Strategic Policy in Defence, he led the team that wrote Australia’s 2013 Defence White Paper and also administered defence exports policy and legislation. In his first Senior Executive Service role he led the tender evaluation, selection and contract negotiations for the Australian Navy’s Armidale Class Patrol Boats. His last role in the Defence organisation was as the head of the Contestability Division that provides objective analysis of the overall $270 billion investment program. Michael was Australia’s senior defence policy official in the Australian Embassy in Washington from February 2005 to June 2007. He was seconded to the UK Ministry of Defence in 1999-2000. He has also served in the Senior Executive Service in both Australia’s Finance Department and the Prime Minister’s Department, where he was head of the Defence, Intelligence and Research Division.

She previously served as the Senior Foreign Affairs Research Specialist at the Center for International Relations and Strategic Studies (CIRSS) of the Foreign Service Institute, Philippines. She also taught as a Senior Lecturer at the College of International Humanitarian and Development Studies in Miriam College, Philippines.  

He earned his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Keio University. His publications include “Strategies of China’s Maritime Actors in the South China Sea: A Coordinated Plan under the Leadership of Xi Jinping?” China Perspective, 2016 No.3, (October 2016), pp.23-31. He is a co-author of the NIDS China Security Report 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017, and 2018.

Dr. Chen received his Ph.D. degree from the Graduate Institute of International Politics, National Chung Hsing University (NCHU). Dr. Chen’s scholarly interests include strategic studies, political warfare in the People’s Republic of China, PLA military modernization, and Indo-Pacific security. His research contributions are evident through various peer-reviewed articles published in esteemed journals such as the Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, Mainland China Studies (Taiwan), and Prospect Quarterly (Taiwan), primarily exploring China studies, PLA affairs, and regional security. Furthermore, Dr. Chen holds positions as a senior research fellow at the Center for Contemporary China Studies within NCHU and an overseas research fellow at the Security Strategy Research Institute of Japan. He also contributes as an associate editor for Essays on PLA Studies. He has been honored with a scholarship for the “Overseas Academic Diplomacy Program 2023” by Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA).