H. R. MCMASTER was Assistant to the American President for National Security Affairs and is currently a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He holds a Ph.D. in military history, was called one of the world's most influential people by Time magazine, and authored the bestselling book Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Lies that Led to Vietnam.

MICHAEL PILLSBURY is the Director of the Centre on Chinese Strategy at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. Hailed as a leading authority on China, Pillsbury is a key advisor to the U.S. government on relations with China. He holds a doctorate from Columbia University, has held senior roles at the U.N. and RAND Corporation, and is the author of The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower.

KISHORE MAHBUBANI is Senior Advisor and Public Policy Professor at the National University of Singapore. As a senior diplomat for Singapore, he has held postings in Cambodia, Malaysia, the U.S., and at the U.N, where he served as President of the Security Council. Mahbubani has authored seven books, including Can Asians Think: Understanding the Divide Between East and West.

HUIYAO WANG is the founder and president of one of China's leading independent think tanks, the Centre for China Globalization. He holds a Ph.D. in international business and management from Western University and the University of Manchester and was a senior fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School and the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. He has published and edited extensively, and was named one of the most influential people in 2018 by Newsweek in China.

Rudyard Griffiths is the co-organizer and moderator of the Munk Debates. He is also the co-founder of the Dominion Institute, co-director of the Grano Speakers Series, and author of Who We Are: A Citizen's Manifesto. He lives in Toronto.