Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow in Contemporary Asia, Hoover Institution
Michael Auslin, PhD, is the Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow in Contemporary Asia at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. A historian by training, he specializes in US policy in Asia and geopolitical issues in the Indo-Pacific region.
Auslin is the author of six books, including Asia’s New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific and the best-selling The End of the Asian Century: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World's Most Dynamic Region. He is a longtime contributor to the Wall Street Journal and National Review, and his writing appears in other leading publications, including the Financial Times, The Spectator, and Foreign Policy. He comments regularly for US and foreign print and broadcast media.
Previously, Auslin was an associate professor of history at Yale University, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the senior advisor for Asia at the Halifax International Security Forum, a senior fellow at London’s Policy Exchange, and a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Among his honors are being named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, a Fulbright Scholar, and a German Marshall Fund Marshall Memorial Fellow. He serves on the board of the Wilton Park USA Foundation.
Auslin cohosts the podcast "The Pacific Century" with John Yoo, where they broadly address developments in China and Asia. They discuss the latest politics, economics, law, and cultural news, with a focus on US policy in the region.
Payson J. Treat, for whom Auslin’s current Stanford position is named, held the first professorship at an American university in what was then called Far Eastern history, a post created for him at Stanford in 1906.
Senior Public Policy Advisor, Wiley Rein LLP
Nova Daly, an experienced international investment and trade policy professional, has held senior leadership positions at the U.S. Departments of the Treasury and Commerce, the White House, and the U.S. Senate. Drawing on his experience in the management, development, and implementation of the U.S. economic and national security policies and programs, he provides both high-level insight and deep operational experience to help clients navigate the policy and regulatory environment surrounding cross-border business activities, especially through the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).
Partner, CFIUS and Foreign Investment Reviews; National Security; International Trade, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates
Ambassador Gerrish returned to Skadden in 2020 after serving as the deputy U.S. trade representative for Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Industrial Competitiveness. In this role, he formulated and implemented U.S. trade policy for the regions and issues under his purview, led critically important trade negotiations, and developed and executed strategies to address trade barriers and unfair trade practices in countries around the world. In addition, he was responsible for global trade policy in the areas of intellectual property and innovation. Ambassador Gerrish served as lead negotiator for the U.S.-China Economic and Trade Agreement and played a key role in the negotiation or renegotiation of several other major trade agreements, including the U.S.-Japan Trade Agreement, the U.S.-Japan Digital Trade Agreement, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement and the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement. From April 2018 to May 2019, Ambassador Gerrish also served as acting president and chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, where he developed and implemented major policy initiatives, including an increased focus on programs to aid small businesses.
Ambassador Gerrish helps clients navigate challenges and barriers in international trade and investment. He advises on the market access opportunities and compliance challenges presented by trade agreements, and counsels clients on how to address market access issues, trade barriers and unfair trade practices that affect their ability to export to, operate within or invest in other countries. He develops strategies for clients to open or maintain international markets for their products or services, and he advocates on their behalf before the U.S. government and foreign governments. Additionally, Ambassador Gerrish advises clients on how best to structure their operations and supply chains to avoid supply chain disruptions and take advantage of current trade agreements and structures.
Ambassador Gerrish also works with clients in ongoing negotiations relating to international trade agreements, including negotiations at the World Trade Organization and for bilateral trade agreements. He advises clients on how such negotiations may affect their interests and operations and helps them to develop and execute strategies for the negotiations.
Another important part of Ambassador Gerrish’s practice is working closely with clients in matters involving U.S. export controls and U.S. customs laws and regulations. He has helped a broad array of clients in handling compliance issues, interpreting the scope and applicability of the requirements in these areas, developing and implementing company compliance programs, and resolving internal investigations and government enforcement matters.
Ambassador Gerrish has extensive experience assisting companies in complex antidumping, countervailing duty and safeguards cases and in other high-stakes trade disputes before the U.S. government and foreign governments and international institutions. He has litigated hundreds of cases before the U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. International Trade Commission, U.S. Court of International Trade, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, North American Free Trade Agreement binational panels and World Trade Organization dispute settlement panels. In addition, Ambassador Gerrish works with clients on national security investigations under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 and in investigations into unfair trade policies and practices before the U.S. Trade Representative’s Office under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974. He has achieved highly successful outcomes for clients in these matters in industries ranging from steel to geosynthetics.
Ambassador Gerrish also assists clients in navigating national security reviews before the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). In this capacity, he draws upon his experience at the U.S. Trade Representative’s Office, where he advised on CFIUS reviews and helped to formulate the regulations and policies implementing the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act.
Ambassador Gerrish is a frequent speaker on international trade topics. He also was previously appointed (and reappointed) by the chief judge of the U.S. Court of International Trade to serve as a member of the court’s Rules Advisory Committee, and he served as co-chair of the International Trade Committee and a board member of the Customs and International Trade Bar Association. Ambassador Gerrish repeatedly has been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America.
Professor Emeritus of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University
Jeremy A. Rabkin is a Professor Emeritus of Law at the Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University. Before joining the faculty in June 2007, he was for over two decades a professor in the Department of Government at Cornell University. Professor Rabkin serves on the board of directors of the Center for Individual Rights, a public interest law firm based in Washington, D.C. Previously he was a board member of the U.S. Institute of Peace and the board of academic advisors of the American Enterprise Institute.
Professor Rabkin’s books include Law Without Nations? (Princeton University Press, 2005). He authored “If You Need a Friend, Don’t Call a Cosmopolitan,” a chapter in Varieties of Sovereignty and Citizenship (Sigal R. Ben-Porath & Rogers M. Smith eds., University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012). His articles have appeared in major law reviews and political science journals and his journalistic contributions in a range of magazines and newspapers, including the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal.
Senior Public Policy Advisor, Wiley Rein LLP
Nova Daly, an experienced international investment and trade policy professional, has held senior leadership positions at the U.S. Departments of the Treasury and Commerce, the White House, and the U.S. Senate. Drawing on his experience in the management, development, and implementation of the U.S. economic and national security policies and programs, he provides both high-level insight and deep operational experience to help clients navigate the policy and regulatory environment surrounding cross-border business activities, especially through the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).
Global Public Policy, AT&T, Director
Ms. Geffroy is based in AT&T’s Washington, DC office. She represents AT&T in a wide range of cybersecurity and national security policy issues. Ms. Geffroy also serves as a Senior Fellow with the George Washington University Center for Cyber and Homeland Security.
Prior to assuming her current role, Ms. Geffroy’s experience included serving as Chief Counsel to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and as Counselor to Board Member Elisebeth Collins on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. As Chief Counsel, Ms. Geffroy led the Committee’s efforts to pass cyber threat information sharing legislation, developed and implemented the Committee’s legislative and parliamentary operations and managed the legal issues arising in the Committee’s regular oversight of the seventeen Intelligence Community elements. Ms. Geffroy also served as an attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Legislative Affairs where she represented the Department in legislative and oversight matters before Congress on various national security, criminal, and civil matters.
Ms. Geffroy began her career in private practice with a law firm in Washington, D.C. She holds an LL.M. in International and Comparative Law from Georgetown University Law School, a J.D. from Suffolk University Law School, and a BA in Business Administration from Michigan State University. She lives in Alexandria, VA with her husband and four children.
Partner, Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP
Mr. Johnson provides advice and advocacy to clients navigating the complex terrain at the intersection of technology and security. Having served in a wide variety of national security and cybersecurity leadership roles on Capitol Hill, in the national security and intelligence communities, in the regulatory arena, and in the Executive Branch, Mr. Johnson focuses in particular on improving the effectiveness and efficiency of government-industry collaboration.
Mr. Johnson was Secretary Penny Pritzker’s Senior Adviser for Cybersecurity and Technology at the U.S. Department of Commerce, where he coordinated the Department’s cybersecurity initiatives and the Department’s support for the Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity. He was also the Department’s representative for National Security Council staff deliberations on cybersecurity, encryption, and other policy issues at the intersection of technology and security.
Previously, Mr. Johnson was appointed by Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler as the FCC’s first Chief Counsel for Cybersecurity. In this position, he helped develop the FCC’s cybersecurity mission, focusing on creating new legal mechanisms for government collaboration with private sector stakeholders to improve the security and reliability of communications infrastructure. He was also the primary drafter of the charter for the Cybersecurity Forum for Independent and Executive Branch Regulators, a coordinating body of regulatory agencies which is presently chaired by the FCC.
Prior to his time at the FCC, Mr. Johnson was Senator John D. Rockefeller IV’s designated counsel on the Senate Intelligence Committee and counsel for defense, foreign policy, and international trade. In these roles, he was a leading staffer on bipartisan Senate cybersecurity initiatives and the primary staff drafter of the legislation that codified the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s collaborative process to work with industry to develop and update the widely-praised Cybersecurity Framework.
Before his government service, Mr. Johnson worked for a major Washington-based law firm, where he practiced in the areas of international trade, defense, and security. Earlier, he served as an Army officer in Germany, Korea, and the Balkans. He is a graduate of the University of Georgia School of Law, where he was the editor-in-chief of the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, and he received a master of science degree in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard, where he graduated cum laude, cross-enrolled at MIT for service as Executive Officer of its Army ROTC Paul Revere Battalion, and played varsity football.
Clete lives in Alexandria, Va. with his wife, Sheila, and their two children.
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