Anja Manuel

on November 17, 2020

Anja Manuel is a former diplomat, author, and advisor on emerging markets. She is Co-Founder and Principal, along with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, and former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, of Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC, a strategic consulting firm that helps U.S. companies navigate international markets.

She is the author of the critically acclaimed This Brave New World: India, China, and the United States (Simon and Schuster, 2016). From 2005 to 2007, she served as an official at the U.S. Department of State, responsible for South Asia Policy.

Earlier in her career, Manuel was an attorney at WilmerHale, working on corporate governance and international and Supreme Court cases, and representing special committees of major corporate boards before the U.S. Congress, Department of Justice, and the SEC. She was also an investment banker at Salomon Brothers in London.

A graduate of Harvard Law School and Stanford University, Manuel now also lectures at Stanford University.

Manuel serves on a number of corporate and non-profit boards and is a frequent commentator on foreign policy for TV, radio, and print press. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is the Director of the Aspen Strategy Group and Aspen Security Forum, a bi-partisan forum on foreign policy in the U.S.

Andrew Senyei

on November 17, 2020

Andrew (“Drew”) E. Senyei, M.D. is a physician, venture capitalist, and inventor with more than 30 years of experience in the building of emerging technology and healthcare companies.

He served as Managing Director of Enterprise Partners Venture Capital for more than 25 years with U.S.$1.1 billion under management. He was the founding investor of multiple healthcare technology companies, including Nuvasive, one of the largest minimally non-invasive orthopedic companies in the U.S. with revenues in excess of U.S.$1 billion.

Senyei has served on the boards of more than 30 private and public companies. He is currently Chairman and CEO of NoniGenex, Inc., a company focused on whole population level testing for high-impact diseases using next generation automation technologies. He remains actively involved with early stage angel investing in a variety of high-tech industries in the U.S. as well as in China and is a senior advisor to Healthpoint Capital, a private equity firm.

He currently serves on The Board of Trustees at Northwestern University, where he chairs the Medicine Committee. He is also a member of the UC San Diego Foundation board and a founding member of the UCSD 21st Century China Leadership Board. He is co-chair of the advisory board of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) and is a former Chair of the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering Advisory Council.

Senyei was named one of the Top 100 Venture Capitalists in the U.S. on Forbes magazine's 2006 Midas Touch List and he was the recipient of the 2007 Ernst & Young San Diego Master Entrepreneur Award.

Senyei received his M.D. from Northwestern University and completed his residency training at the University of California, Irvine, where he served on the faculty prior to becoming active full-time with venture capital funding of early stage technology companies.

Peter Cowhey

on November 17, 2020

Peter Cowhey holds the Qualcomm Endowed Chair in Communications and Technology Policy and is Dean of the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego. He chairs the Working Group on Science and Technology in U.S.-China relations. He is an expert on the future of communications and information technology markets and policy, specializing in U.S. trade policy, foreign policy, the Internet, and international corporate strategy.

His two most recent books, co-authored with Jonathan D. Aronson, are Digital DNA: Disruption and the Challenges for Global Governance (Oxford University Press, 2017) and Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets: The Political Economy of Innovation (MIT Press, 2009).

Cowhey has extensive experience in government. In the Clinton Administration, he served as the chief of the International Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and negotiated many of the U.S. international agreements for telecommunications and satellite services. He had responsibility for antitrust decisions involving the communications and satellite industries. In 2009, he served a 12-month assignment as the senior counselor to Ambassador Ron Kirk in the Office of the United States Trade Representative, playing a key role in the strategic agenda for trade policy. Subsequently, Cowhey served on a bi-national experts group appointed by the U.S. and Chinese governments to research and advise on innovation policy.

As chair of the CONNECT Innovation Institute, he is co-leading a project on U.S. innovation policies.

Cowhey has served in many leadership positions in the nonprofit world. He served as the chief Policy Officer for the Aspen Institute’s International Digital Economy Accords project to update policies involving the Internet and global communications markets. Cowhey is currently the Chair of the Board of Directors for both the California Council on Science and Technology and the Grameen Foundation USA, the U.S. foundation supporting the work of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus.

Cowhey is a member of the Global Competitiveness Council and the Council on Foreign Relations. He joined the UC San Diego faculty in 1976. He was Director of the University of California’s system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation from 1999-2006 and Associate Vice Chancellor-International Affairs from 2007-2009. He was the Interim Executive Vice Chancellor of UC San Diego in 2016-2017. Cowhey became Dean of the School in July 2002.

Helen Toner

on November 16, 2020

Helen Toner is Director of Strategy at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET). She previously worked as a Senior Research Analyst at the Open Philanthropy Project, where she advised policymakers and grantmakers on AI policy and strategy. Between working at Open Philanthropy and joining CSET, Toner lived in Beijing, studying the Chinese AI ecosystem as a Research Affiliate of Oxford University’s Center for the Governance of AI. She has written for Foreign Affairs and other outlets on the national security implications of AI and machine learning for China and the United States, and she has testified before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Toner holds a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering and a Diploma in Languages from the University of Melbourne.

The Korean Peninsula after the U.S. Elections

A China in the World Podcast

By Paul Haenle, Alexander Gabuev & more on November 2, 2020

The result of the upcoming U.S. presidential election will directly impact how the United States, China, and Russia approach issues on the Korean Peninsula. How would a second Trump or first Biden administration deal with North Korea? How do policymakers in Beijing and Moscow evaluate their relations with Pyongyang? During a live recording of the China in the World podcast, Paul Haenle spoke with Carnegie experts Alexander Gabuev and Tong Zhao about the outlook for denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and the role of the United States, China, and Russia.