STATE OF ASIA 2022

He is a Visiting Research Professor at the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), National University of Singapore, and was previously the Director of ISAS. Mohan was the founding director of Carnegie India in Delhi, the sixth international center of Carnegie Endowment for Peace. He was associated with several Indian think tanks, including the Institute of Defense Studies and Analyses, the Observer Research Foundation, and the Center for Policy Research in New Delhi. Mohan was a Professor of South Asian Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and the Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore. He served on India’s National Security Advisory Board. He was the Henry A. Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Kluge Center, US Library of Congress, Washington DC, during 2009-10. Mohan convened the India chapter of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, during 1995-2005. He has published widely on India’s foreign and security policies, Asian geopolitics, and the global governance of advanced technologies. In his most recent, he co-authored the Adelphi Book, The New Asian Geopolitics: Military Power and Regional Order published by the International Institute of Strategic Studies, London in 2021. He is a columnist for Foreign Policy and the Indian Express. 

She is also the CEO of Citigroup Global Markets Europe AG(CGME), Citi’s European investment firm based in Frankfurt. She is Vice Chair of the Supervisory Board of Bank Handlowy, Citi’s Polish bank, and serves as a Director of the Swiss-American Chamber Commerce Board.

Kristine has enjoyed a 24 year career with Citi, working across the US, EMEA, Asia and Latin America. From 2018 to 2020, she was Chief of Staff to CEO Mike Corbat, having served as Citi Country Officer and Corporate and Investment Banking Head for Switzerland, Monaco and Liechtenstein for three years prior. She was based in London in 2012 as Europe Head of Citi’s Global Subsidiaries Group after spending 14 years in Asia. Kristine started her career as a Global Emerging Market Management Associate with postings in the Dominican Republic, Hong Kong, the Philippines and Egypt.

Kristine is a keen advocate of advancing women’s diversity and is listed among the ‘Top 100 Most Influential Women in European Finance' by Financial News in 2021. She currently serves as the Families Matter Affinity Co-Lead at Citi.

He also plays a leading role in organising the annual IISS Shangri-La Dialogue and the IISS Fullerton Forum: The Shangri-La Sherpa Meeting, as well as the IISS Fullerton Lecture series. Prior to joining the IISS, James was a Singapore-based author and journalist, and an Associate Professor of Practice at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. His best-selling 2018 book, The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India’s New Gilded Age was shortlisted for the FT / McKinsey book of the year. Prior to academia, he worked for the Financial Times, most recently as Mumbai bureau chief, and has written for a wide range of global publications. He also worked as a senior policy adviser in the UK Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. James was educated at Harvard and the London School of Economics. His fields of expertise contain - but are not limited to - the following topics: Politics, international relations and security, Southeast Asia and the Asia-Pacific region, India’s economy, politics, foreign and security policy, Geo-economics, trade and economic development.

Research topics of interest include the U.S.-China competition in emerging technologies, the EU’s approach to geopolitics and technology, and the role of technology firms in international security. She holds a doctorate in Political Science from ETH Zurich. In her thesis, she investigated how technology companies shape the strategies available to the American government to respond to China’s technological rise.  

Prior to China Macro Group, he worked as Government Affairs Director with Bayer MaterialScience in China and as Management Consultant with Boston Consulting Group in its Shanghai, Hong Kong and Zurich offices. He is a Strategic Advisor Europe to Caixin Global and is engaged in advisory boards with CEIBS Zurich, SCCC, UZH and the Swiss Forum on Foreign Policy. Markus holds a B.A. and M.A. in Law from the Universities of Geneva and Bern as well as CAS degrees from ETHZ in public policy and from the University of Zurich in applied ethics

She contributes to Rhodium's work on China’s global investment, industrial policy and technology aspirations. Agatha is also a non-resident Adjunct Fellow of the Reconnecting Asia Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies under the Simon Chair in Political Economy. She holds a Ph.D. from King’s College London, on China’s railway diplomacy. Her previous positions include Associate Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and Editor-in-Chief of its quarterly journal China Analysis, Assistant Editor for Gavekal-Dragonomics’ China Economic Quarterly, and Junior Fellow at Asia Centre in Paris.

He has published four books since 2018, mostly focused on geopolitics, China, Russia, and technology. Bruno has a doctorate in political science from Harvard and has recently held fellowships at Renmin University in China and the Hudson Institute. Since 2020, he is a fellow at the Wilfried Martens Centre in Brussels, and since 2022 a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations. His latest book, Geopolitics for the End Time, was published in September 2021. He specialises in technology policy, the European Union, and Chinese and Russian foreign policy.

He is Chair of the Board of the International Peace Institute in New York, and Chair of Sanitation and Water for All – a global partnership of government and non-governmental organizations dedicated to the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 6. He is a Distinguished Fellow at Chatham House and the Paulson Institute, and a Distinguished Statesman with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is also a member of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization’s Group of Eminent Persons.

He terminated his service as Special Advisor to Prime Minister Abe's Cabinet on 16 September, the same day Mr. Abe stepped down as Premier. 

Bachelor of Law from the University of Tokyo, he spent 20 years in journalism before joining Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2005 as Deputy Press Secretary. Taniguchi spent the next 3 years addressing members of the foreign press corps, while writing speeches for Foreign Minister Asō Tarō as well as for then Prime Minister Abe. 

While in journalism he was a Fulbright visiting fellow at Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, 1991-92, spent three years in London, 1997-2000, during which Foreign Press Association in London elected him President, the first from "the east of Suez," and spent sabbaticals at Shanghai Institute for International Studies, 2002-03, and at Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., 2004-05. 

Between 2008 and 2012 he was an Executive Advisor at JR-Central. Taniguchi has published books on Mr. Abe, modern history, and international affairs. 

Before joining Swiss Re, John was the Senior Global Economist at Haitong International Securities. He has worked on both the buy-side and sell-side in London and Hong Kong with HSBC, Legal & General and Pimco. 

John was also previously a central banker with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, which included a secondment as a Visiting Economist at the Bank for International Settlements. 

John read economics at the University of Cambridge and completed a Masters at the London School of Economics in 2007, after which he worked as a financial journalist during the Global Financial Crisis.