Prof. David Arase is a CAPRI 2023 Senior Fellow and Resident Professor of International Politics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Hopkins-Nanjing Center in Nanjing, China (2012-present). Prior to this, he was Professor of Politics at Pomona College, Claremont, CA, where he began as Assistant Professor in 1989. He was a Lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London from 1994 to 1995. He earned a BA from Cornell University (1977), an MA at Johns Hopkins SAIS (1982), and a PhD in Political Science from the University of California Berkeley (1989). David’s research areas include Indo-Pacific security, comparative foreign policy (special focus on China and Japan), Sino-US relations, international development (foreign aid), and comparative Asian politics. He has conducted resident research at National Chengchi University (Taiwan, 2022-23), Asia Global Institute at the University of Hong Kong (2020-22), several times at ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute (Singapore, since 2015), and the National Institute of Defense Studies (Tokyo, 2014). David is author of Buying Power: The political economy of Japan’s foreign aid (Lynne Rienner, 1995). He is editor or co-editor and chapter author of six volumes, including most recently The US-Japan Alliance: Balancing Soft and Hard Power in East Asia (Routledge-Nissan Institute, 2010), which was awarded the 2011 Ohira Memorial Foundation (Tokyo) Special Prize; The Rise of China: Implications for East Asian Order (Palgrave 2016); Routledge Handbook of Africa-Asia Relations (Routledge, 2018); and The Belt and Road Initiative in Asia, Africa, and Europe (Routledge 2023). David has also authored numerous journal articles, book chapters, and media commentaries addressing his research interests.

Audrey Chia is Associate Professor at the NUS Business School, with a concurrent joint appointment at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS). She is Deputy Chair of the Programme Management Committee of the MSc. (Environmental Management) Programme, the University’s flagship sustainability programme.

Prof. Chia’s research applies leadership, change and innovation as theoretical foundations to address health, environmental and social challenges. Her research has been published in journals such as JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association), The BMJ (British Medical Journal) and Obesity Reviews. She has served as an invited expert on social entrepreneurship, innovative philanthropy, innovative financing and sustainable development at meetings of the United Nations, Asian Development Bank, OECD, and the Asia-Pacific Leaders’ Malaria Alliance. In recognition of her expertise, Prof Chia was appointed to the Management Committee of the United Nations Global Compact Network Singapore.

Prof Chia has delivered keynote or plenary addresses and made presentations at conferences such as the Academy of Management, the Integrated Care Foundation, the European Union Workplace Innovation Network, the World Health Summit, and the Xiong An International Health Forum. She is regularly invited to judge venture competitions, such as the Swiss Re Entrepreneurs for Resilience Award, Singtel Futuremakers, DBS-NUS Social Venture Challenge, and NUS Medical Grand Challenge.

As a consultant on leadership and change, Prof Chia has worked with public, private, non-profit and multilateral organisations. Prof. Chia directs NUS Business School’s Leadership Development Programme which attracts participants across the world.

Kuei-Tien Chou is a professor in the Graduate Institute of National Development, National Taiwan University (NTU). He recently contributed to the books Sociology of Climate Change – High Carbon Society and its Transformation Challenge (National Taiwan University Press, 2017), Energy Transition in East Asia – A Social Scientific Perspective (Routledge, 2018), Climate Change Governance in Asia (Routledge, 2020), and Air Pollution Governance in East Asia (Routledge 2022).

Currently, Dr. Chou is director of the Risk Society and Policy Research Center, NTU, where he constructs a risk communicative platform between politicians, industry, civil society and media in terms of the radical societal transition in Taiwan and in East Asia. He leads young researchers in RSPRC to engage in advocacy for sustainable transitions and published several journal articles, edited books, and policy papers discussing the new paradigm of transboundary risk governance. His research interests include risk governance, sustainable development, globalization, technological democracy, risk communication, and East Asia Risk Society. Recently, he has dedicated himself to the issues of pandemics and climate change governance to reflect sustainability and cosmopolitan governance challenges.

Dr. Aurel Croissant is a distinguished political science professor at Heidelberg University in Germany. He is currently in Taipei as a Fellow of the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy and visiting scholar and adjunct professor at National Taiwan University. His teaching and research focus on comparative democracy research, comparative authoritarianism, processes of democratization and autocratization, and political systems in the Asia-Pacific, particularly Southeast Asia, and the Korean Peninsula.

He has co-authored more than 170 scholarly works, including books, articles, and chapters, focusing on political dynamics in Southeast and East Asia, democratization studies, civil–military relations, etc. Some of the books he published include Dictators’ Endgames, Civil-Military Relations and Democracy in the Third Wave, and Civil-Military Relations in Southeast Asia. His two forthcoming pieces, “From Capacity to Performance: Pathways of Democratic Resilience in Asia” and “Democratic Resilience in the Twenty-First Century” are currently under review with different journals.

Dr. Croissant has served as a fellow at many institutions worldwide, including a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy, Global Ewha Fellow at Ewha Womans University, a lifetime fellow at East West Center, and a fellow of the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy. He completed his MA in Political Science, Sociology, and Public Law and PhD in Political Science from Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz.

Jack A. Goldstone (PhD Harvard) is the Virginia E. and John T. Hazel, Jr. Chair Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University, and a Global Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center. Previously, Dr. Goldstone was on the faculty of Northwestern University and the University of California, and has been a visiting scholar at Cambridge University and the California Institute of Technology. He is the author of Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World, awarded the 1993 Distinguished Scholarly Research Award of the American Sociological Association; Why Europe? The Rise of the West in World History; and nine other books as well as over one hundred research articles on topics in politics, social movements, democratization, and long-term social change. He has appeared on NPR, CNN, Al-Jazeera, Fox News, and written for Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, the Washington Post, Al-Hayat and the International Herald Tribune.

The New Population Bomb,” received world-wide attention. He has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study at Stanford University, and won Fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, the J.S. Guggenheim Foundation, the Andrew Carnegie Foundation, the U.S. Institute of Peace, and the American Council of Learned Societies. His current research focuses on conditions for building democracy and stability in developing nations, the impact of population change on the global economy and international security, and the cultural origins of modern economic growth. Goldstone is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and served on the advisory board of the Council’s Center for Preventive Action. His latest books are Revolutions: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford U. Press 2014), Handbook of Revolutions of the 21st Century (Springer 2022) and International Handbook of Population Policies (Springer 2022).

姜敏娥博士現任首爾梨花女子大學公共行政學系教授。她曾擔任韓國最高審計機關監查院的首位女性委員長。目前，她擔任韓國國際發展與合作協會（KAIDEC）主席。她曾任各種專家諮詢委員會的委員，包括韓國總統辦公室的工業4.0革命委員會、國際發展合作委員會（CIDC）以及許多韓國政府的諮詢委員會。自2018年以來，她一直是二十國集團（G20）轄下專注於性別平等的W20小組的活躍成員之一，並於2022年二十國集團峇里島峰會擔任W20衛生工作組的聯合主席。在教育領域，她曾擔任梨花女子大學職業發展中心的主任和該校的領導力發展研究所副所長，此研究所為女大學生提供職業發展的協助和指導。她曾獲得梨花女子大學年度最佳教授獎和年度最佳研究員獎。

她的研究興趣包括全球衛生和治理、公共問責制、政府開發援助的監測和評估、婦女權利、以及創新的稽核和評估。她在許多國際公共政策和衛生政策期刊發表了論文，包括《新英格蘭醫學雜誌（NEJM）》、《衛生事務（Health Affairs）》、《亞太觀點（Asia Pacific Viewpoint）》、《醫療保健（Medical Care）》、《衛生政策（Health Policy）》和《美國醫學會雜誌》。她是《 衛生系統與改革期刊（Journal of Health Systems & Reform）》的編委會成員和《現代生物出版集團醫療衛生服務研究期刊（BMC Health Services Research）》的副編輯。她取得了哈佛大學的衛生政策博士學位、哈佛甘迺迪政府學院碩士和梨花女子大學學士。

野村周平博士為慶應義塾大學全球研究中心（Global Research Institute）教授，他積極投入健康領域之實務、教育與研究，透過基於資料的決策協助，積極參與國內外健康政策的制定過程。野村教授的專業廣泛，主要聚焦於疾病負擔，同時也涉獵外交與發展援助、營養科學與政策、流行病防範、準備與回應（PPR），以及健康緊急狀況與災害風險管理（Health EDRM）。野村博士亦身兼全球疾病負擔研究科學委員會委員、全球營養報告獨立專家組成員，以及比爾與比爾及梅琳達蓋茲基金會日本辦事處顧問等。在新冠疫情期間，他曾於日本厚生勞動省帶領超額死亡監測研究團隊。

楊小燕博士目前於哥倫比亞大學的ICAP擔任實驗室監測的資深技術顧問，她是擁有超過15年經驗的傳染病和公衛專家。 楊小燕擁有加州大學戴維斯分校的藥理學和病毒學博士學位，於COVID-19疫情期間向美國疾病管控和預防中心、美國衛生署及其他政府機關提供新冠肺炎病毒研究與檢測之相關技術支援與指導。她曾在美國疾病管控和預防中心領導愛滋病毒監測研究，更曾成功開發了愛滋病毒檢測技術，被廣泛應用於全球愛滋病毒檢測。

Chiaoning Su is an Associate Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Public Relations at Oakland University, where she also serves as the Director of the Barry M. Klein Center for Culture and Globalization.

Her research spans two interconnected areas: journalism of crisis and journalism in crisis. The first examines the representation and production of crisis news, while the second explores journalism’s role in public life amid the challenges of declining democracy. Her work has been published in leading journals such as Media, Culture & Society, International Journal of Communication, Asian Journal of Communication, Taiwan Journal of Democracy, and Communication Review.

Beyond Oakland University, Chiaoning has served as President of the Association for Chinese Communication Studies (2018–2020). She is currently a Research Fellow in the 2023–25 U.S.-Taiwan Next Generation Working Group at UC Berkeley and a recipient of the 2023 Global Taiwan Institute Research Grant. Before transitioning to academia, she worked as a communication specialist at Ogilvy Public Relations and contributed to several political campaigns in Taiwan, where she developed expertise in strategic messaging and crisis management.

Chiaoning holds a B.A. in Sociology from National Taiwan University, an M.A. in Organizational Communication from Emerson College, and a Ph.D. in Media and Communication from Temple University.

蔡奉真博士是臺北醫學大學全球衛生暨衛生安全博士暨碩士學位學程的主任和教授，也是臺北醫學大學健康生物科技法律研究所的兼任教授。

蔡博士的研究專長包括全球衛生政策和法律、傳染病控制、醫療系統強化、貿易與衛生、以及職場衛生等領域。身為一位受過法律和公共衛生雙重訓練的學者，她運用量化和質化方法解答全球衛生的問題。在進入學術領域之前，蔡博士曾在台灣擔任律師。