Team
Project Team
The Hon. Dr. Kurt M. Campbell
Dr. Kurt M. Campbell is the chairman and co-founder of The Asia Group. He previously served as U.S. deputy secretary of state.
Nick Ackert
Nick Ackert is an associate vice president at The Asia Group and a non-resident fellow at the National Taiwan University Center for China Studies. He was previously the lead research associate with the Harvard Business School’s Business, Government and the International Economy unit.
Aysha Chowdhry
Aysha Chowdhry is a principal at The Asia Group, focused on the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). She previously served as a professional staff member for the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee covering South and Central Asia.
Lauren Dueck
Lauren Dueck is a senior vice president and director of communications at The Asia Group. She previously served as director of communications for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s satellite division, as well as in roles at Georgetown University Law Center and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Rivan Dwiastono
Rivan Dwiastono is a multimedia producer at The Asia Group. He previously spent more than 12 years as a multimedia journalist in Indonesian and international newsrooms, including Voice of America and BBC News Indonesia.
Stephanie Snow Gilbert
Stephanie Snow Gilbert is a managing principal at The Asia Group and chief of staff to Kurt Campbell. She previously served as acting deputy sanctions coordinator at the U.S. Department of State, and director for international economics at the U.S. National Security Council.
Ella Lipin
Ella Lipin is a senior advisor at The Asia Group. She previously served as deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of International Organization Affairs and on the National Security Council as senior advisor to the principal deputy national security advisor.
Kelly Magsamen
Kelly Magsamen is a senior advisor at The Asia Group. She previously served as chief of staff to U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, acting assistant secretary of defense for Asia-Pacific security affairs, and director for Iran at the White House National Security Council.
Dr. Mira Rapp-Hooper
Dr. Mira Rapp-Hooper is a senior advisor at The Asia Group. She previously served as special assistant to the president and senior director for East Asia and Oceania at the U.S. National Security Council and director for Indo-Pacific Strategy.
TAG AI Scenario Analysis
Karthik Ayyalasomayajula
Karthik Ayyalasomayajula is a senior associate at The Asia Group. He previously served as a machine learning engineer at the Environmental Defense Fund, where he developed computer vision applications for environmental monitoring.
Theresa Lou
Theresa Lou is an associate vice president at The Asia Group. She previously served as senior policy advisor to the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and as the Democratic staff director for the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific.
Uzair Younus
Uzair Younus is a partner at The Asia Group and chief product officer of TAG AI. He previously served as director of the Pakistan Initiative at the Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center and worked at Dhamiri and the Albright Stonebridge Group.
Senior Advisory Council
Stephen E. Biegun
Stephen E. Biegun previously served as U.S. deputy secretary of state and U.S. special representative for North Korea, as well as several other roles with the U.S. National Security Council, the U.S.-ASEAN Business Council, Boeing, and Ford Motor Company.
Heidi E. Crebo-Rediker
Heidi Crebo-Rediker is a senior fellow in the Center for Geoeconomic Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. She previously served as the U.S. Department of State’s first chief economist and as chief of international finance and economics for the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
Dr. Jason Furman
Dr. Jason Furman is a senior advisor at The Asia Group and currently serves as a professor of the practice of economic policy jointly at Harvard Kennedy School and the Department of Economics at Harvard University. He previously served as the top economic adviser at the White House.
Meghan L. O’Sullivan
Dr. Meghan L. O’Sullivan is the Jeane Kirkpatrick professor of the practice of international affairs and director of both the Geopolitics of Energy Project and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School. She previously held several government roles, including deputy national security advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan.
China
George Chen
George Chen is a partner and chair of the digital practice at The Asia Group. He previously served as Meta’s most senior policy leader for Greater China, Mongolia, and Central Asia and held various editorial and management positions for the South China Morning Post, Reuters, and Dow Jones.
Brett Fetterly
Brett Fetterly is a managing principal at The Asia Group. Brett previously served in the U.S. Senate as the national security advisor to Senator Ben Sasse (R-Nebraska).
Jonah Lefkoe
Jonah Lefkoe is a vice president in The Asia Group. Prior to joining TAG, Jonah was a Yenching scholar at Peking University and held roles with APCO Shanghai, the Urban Institute Center on International Development and Governance, the Ohio Democratic Party, and the U.S. Senate.
Han Lin
Han Shen Lin is the China managing director for The Asia Group and an associate professor of practice in finance at NYU Shanghai. Han previously served as deputy general manager at Wells Fargo Bank in China.
Dr. Evan Medeiros
Dr. Evan S. Medeiros is a senior advisor at The Asia Group and holds the Penner Family Chair in Asian Studies at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He previously served on the U.S. National Security Council as director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolia.
GCC
Aysha Chowdhry
Aysha Chowdhry is a principal at The Asia Group, focused on the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). She previously served as a professional staff member for the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee covering South and Central Asia.
Ahmed Helal
Ahmed Helal is a managing director for the Gulf region at The Asia Group. He previously led the Middle East practice at Global Counsel and served as an adviser to the Qatari minister of finance, leading engagement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and global sovereign rating agencies.
Kelly Magsamen
Kelly Magsamen is a senior advisor at The Asia Group. She previously served as chief of staff to U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, acting assistant secretary of defense for Asia-Pacific security affairs, and director for Iran at the White House National Security Council.
India
Nisha Biswal
Nisha Biswal is a partner at The Asia Group. She previously served as deputy CEO of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation and senior vice president for international strategy and global initiatives at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Ashok Malik
Ashok Malik is a partner at The Asia Group and chair of its India practice, based in New Delhi. Ashok previously served as policy advisor/additional secretary in India’s Ministry of External Affairs and as speech writer and spokesperson for the 14th President of India, President Ram Nath Kovind.
Basant S. Sanghera
Basant S. Sanghera is a managing principal at The Asia Group. He previously served at the U.S. Department of State as unit chief of the India desk, as well as on the U.S. National Security Council as director for India and the Indian Ocean.
Aman Thakker
Aman Thakker is a vice president at The Asia Group. He previously served as senior manager for global programs at Indiaspora and as a non-resident fellow and research associate with the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Japan
David Boling
David Boling is a principal at The Asia Group. He previously served as deputy assistant U.S. trade representative for Japan, chief of staff to former U.S. Congressman Vic Snyder (D-Arkansas) and antitrust counsel on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.
Yuka Hayashi
Yuka Hayashi is a vice president at The Asia Group. Prior to joining TAG, Yuka was a journalist for The Wall Street Journal for two decades. She is also co-chair of the U.S.-Japan Council’s DC Region and serves as a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, a centrist think tank.
Amb. Kurt Tong
Ambassador Kurt Tong is a managing partner at The Asia Group. He previously served as consul general and chief of mission in Hong Kong and Macau, principal deputy assistant secretary for economic and business affairs at the U.S. Department of State, deputy chief of mission and chargé d’affaires at the U.S. embassy in Tokyo, and ambassador for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation.
South Korea
Stephanie Faulkner
Stephanie Faulkner is an associate vice president at The Asia Group. She previously served at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, McLarty Associates, the U.S. Department of State, the Eurasia Group, and the Wilson Center.
Choong Hong
Choong Hong is a senior associate at The Asia Group. He previously served as the sole researcher for United Nations Security Council Affairs at the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations in New York.
Jennifer Lee
Jennifer Lee is a partner at The Asia Group. She previously served as a Korea analyst at Eurasia Group and held roles at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, KB Kookmin Bank, and the Samsung Economic Research Institute in Seoul.
Southeast Asia
Alexander Feldman
Alexander Feldman is a partner at The Asia Group based in Singapore. He previously served as president of Boeing Southeast Asia, assistant secretary of state leading the Bureau of International Information Programs, and senior advisor to the U.S. under secretary for international trade.
Amb. Daniel Kritenbrink
Ambassador Daniel J. Kritenbrink is a partner at The Asia Group. He previously served as assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, U.S. ambassador to Vietnam, and senior director for Asian affairs at the U.S. National Security Council.
John Lichtefeld
John Lichtefeld is the managing director for Southeast Asia at The Asia Group. He previously worked as an attorney in Burma, Cambodia, and Thailand and currently serves as a non-resident fellow for the Stimson Center’s Southeast Asia/Energy, Water, and Sustainability Program.
Quan Nguyen
Quan Nguyen is a senior vice president at The Asia Group. He previously held various roles at BowerGroupAsia (BGA), including director for digital marketing and strategy and director of client services.
Sectoral Experts
Alexandra Melillo
Alexandra Melillo is an associate vice president at The Asia Group. Specializing in pharmaceuticals and the life sciences, she previously served at the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ) as the external affairs coordinator for U.S. government affairs.
Abhiram Reddy
Abhiram Reddy is an associate at The Asia Group. He previously worked as an AI safety and security research assistant at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) and as a senior digital strategist for U.S. Senate campaigns and international non-profits at MissionWired.
Jennifer Schuch-Page
Jennifer Schuch-Page is a partner at The Asia Group and leads the firm’s energy and sustainability practice. She previously served as managing director for global bilateral climate action and senior advisor to the U.S. special presidential envoy for climate.
Ellen Swicord
Ellen Swicord is a senior associate at The Asia Group. She previously served as a foreign affairs officer in the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Energy Resources and was a graduate fellow in defense programs at the National Nuclear Security Administration.