Linda Yueh (chair)

Linda Yueh is fellow in economics at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University, and adjunct Professor of Economics at London Business School. She is also visiting professor at LSE IDEAS and chair of the LSE Economic Diplomacy Commission. She is widely published and is editor of the Routledge Series on Economic Growth and Development. Her book The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today was The Times’s Best Business Books of the Year, and Newsweek magazine’s Best Books of the Year. Her latest book The Great Crashes: Lessons from Global Meltdowns and How to Prevent Them, can be purchased here.

Jan-Peter Kleinhans

Jan-Peter Kleinhans is head of the Technology and Geopolitics topic area at Stiftung Neue Verantwortung since 2020. His focus is on the analysis of semiconductors as a strategic asset, how resilient the global semiconductor value chain is to external shocks and how Europe’s competitiveness can be strengthened. Jan-Peter has identified the strategic relevance of semiconductors through his work on mobile network security (2018-2020), in particular 5G security and the issue of the trustworthiness of network equipment vendors. He presented his work on 5G security to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the German Bundestag and the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, among others.

Akira Igata

Akira Igata is a Project Lecturer at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo. He is also an Adjunct Senior Fellow at Pacific Forum, a Senior Fellow at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), and a Non-Executive Director at the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC). He advises the Japanese government, bureaucracy, and the private sector in various capacities. His expertise are on: Economic Security, Human Rights Diplomacy, Counter-Influence Operation, and International Politics in the Indo-Pacific.