Professor Avery Goldstein is the director of Center for the Study of Contemporary China. He is the David M. Knott Professor of Global Politics and International Relations in the Political Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania.

Professor Xinyin Chen is Professor of Psychology at the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania.He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Association for Psychological Science (APS) and the President-Elect of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD).

Dr. Emily Hannum is Associate Professor of Sociology and Education, as well as Chair of the Graduate Group in Sociology at Penn.

Monroe Price is the director of the Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School. He is also the Joseph and Sadie Danciger Professor of Law and Director of the Howard M. Squadron Program in Law, Media and Society at the Cardozo School of Law.

Xia Liping is Dean and Professor of School of Political Science & International Relations at Tongji University in Shanghai.  He is Vice President of Shanghai Institute for International Strategic Studies (SIISS), Vice Chairman of Shanghai Association of International Studies, and Vice President of Shanghai Center for RimPac Strategic and International Studies (CPSIS).

Minyuan Zhao is an Associate Professor of Management at Wharton. Minyuan's research examines the interactions between firm strategy and external environment in a global context: How emerging market institutions affect firms’ global strategies, and how firms’ strategic organization across borders shapes the global economic landscape.

Junyan Jiang received his PhD in political science from the University of Chicago in August 2016. He is broadly interested in informal institutions, public opinion, and elite-mass interactions in authoritarian regimes, with a special focus on China.