STATE OF ASIA 2023

During his 37 years in the Ministry, he served in a variety of appointments at home and abroad, including as Ambassador to the Russian Federation, Permanent Representative to the UN in New York, and as the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry. Among others, he is a Member of the Advisory Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). He studied at Raffles Institution, the University of Singapore and Columbia University in New York.

Gabuev’s own research is focused on Russian foreign policy with particular focus on the
impact of the war in Ukraine and the Sino-Russia relationship. Since joining Carnegie in 2015,
Gabuev has contributed commentary and analysis to a wide range of publications, including the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Economist. Gabuev began his career as a journalist. He was a member of the editorial board of Kommersant and served as deputy editor in chief of Kommersant-Vlast, which at the time was one of Russia’s most influential newsweeklies. Gabuev started his career at Kommersant in 2007 working as a senior diplomatic reporter, as a member of the Kremlin press corps, and as deputy foreign editor for Kommersant.
Gabuev has previously worked as a nonresident visiting research fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and taught courses on Chinese energy policy and political culture at Moscow State University. In April-June 2018, Gabuev was a visiting scholar at Fudan University (Shanghai, China) where he taught courses on Sino-Russian relations. Gabuev is a Munich Young Leader of Munich Security Conference and a member of Council on Foreign and Defense Policy (Russia).

As a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Center for China Analysis she will focus on Taiwan issues and the January 2024 elections.
Grano has held research positions and taught China Studies and Taiwan Studies at Ca' Foscari University of Venice in Italy, at the University of Zurich in Switzerland and at National Cheng'chi University in Taiwan. She is a research fellow of the European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT), in Tübingen, Germany and a research associate of SOAS, London.
Simona is the author of Environmental Governance in Taiwan: A New Generation of Activists and Stakeholders, published in 2015 by Routledge. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Civil Society, Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, China Information, Asiatische Studien, Taiwan in Comparative Perspective, Orizzonte Cina. Her latest edited volume, China-US Competition: Impact on Small and Middle Powers' Strategic Choices, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in December 2022.
Grano completed her Ph.D. in Chinese Studies at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy in 2008.

She is the author of the critically acclaimed book The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism. 
She is also a board member of Richemont and AInnovation, as well as a member of China Finance 40. She has contributed op-eds published in the New York Times, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Time magazine and many others. She has taught at Yale and Berkeley in the past, and holds a B.A., M.A. and PhD from Harvard University. She was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2014 and has also served on the board of Credit Suisse.

He has published four books since 2018, mostly focused on geopolitics, China, Russia, and technology. Maçães holds a doctorate in Political Science from Harvard University 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 started his career as a medical doctor at the German Armed Forces but left the German Bundeswehr as a captain to join politics in 2003.
In 2009, he joined the Federal Government of Germany as a Minister of Health in Federal Chancellor Merkel's second cabinet. In 2011 Rösler was elected as the Chairman of the Free Democratic Party in Germany and changed his portfolio to Federal Minister of Economics and Technology. He also became Vice-Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany.
In 2013, Rösler left politics and joined the Managing Board of the World Economic Forum in Geneva for four years. 

Thus he found his way to Switzerland, where he settled with his family in Zürich and collected trusting clients and board memberships ever since.

Previously, she also led the FT's newsletters and audience engagement team in Asia. Prior to that, she spent six years reporting in Australia on business, finance and politics for The Australian Financial Review and The Sydney Morning Herald.

She joined Swiss Re in 1999 in London through the Group's acquisition of Fox-Pitt Kelton, a boutique investment bank specialized in FIG. Following her move to Swiss HQ in Zurich in 2002, she gained deeper insurance sector experience, with roles in asset management, strategy, risk management and products. From 2007 to 2013, she held reinsurance client-facing positions as Head of Business Development EMEA and Key Account Manager Globals, before moving to New York to become Client Executive, MD, with global responsibility for some of Swiss Re's largest reinsurance clients. In 2015, Scotti was appointed President and CEO of Canada and the English Caribbean based in Toronto, a role she maintained until her return to Zurich in 2018. Prior to joining Swiss Re, Scotti started her career in investment banking in 1994, working in the UK, Switzerland and Italy with Banque Paribas, Union Bank of Switzerland and Banco di Napoli.
Veronica holds an MBA from the SDA Bocconi School of Management in Milan, and a master's degree in International Commerce from the Naval University Institute, Naples, Italy.

His primary research focus is the political economy of India. Before joining Carnegie, he worked at the Center for Global Development, where he served as a postdoctoral research fellow, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Council on Foreign Relations. Vaishnav is an adjunct professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and has previously taught at Columbia and George Washington Universities. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University.

From 2001 to 2004, he was the Chairman of the German Chamber of Commerce in China. Since its establishment in 2013, Wuttke is member of the Advisory Board of Germany’s foremost Think Tank on China, Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), in Berlin. He lived in China for more than 30 years.

This experience piqued her interest in the arts and culture of this region, prompting her to pursue a master's degree in Art History. Julia further honed her skills through art expertise training and gained valuable experience working in an auction house before establishing her own gallery. Now, her role involves connecting artists and an international network of collectors at the Zurich-based Lechbinska Gallery.

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Émilie has studied at Yonsei University, South Korea, as part of her academic education. She has worked as an Editorial Assistant at the French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs (IRIS) in Paris and is also Next Gen collaborator of the think tank KEY (Korea, Europe, and You). Since October 2023, she started an internship as Project Manager with Asia Society Switzerland.

He is currently interning in a work rehabilitation program and is involved in several international publications as an independent researcher. Privately, he was and is deeply engaged with volunteer work, including a project in pre-pandemic Mainland China.