Claude E. Barfield is a resident scholar and the director of trade and science policy studies and technology policy studies at AEI. He is the author or editor of a number of books on trade and science policy, including the recently published Free Trade, Sovereignty, Democracy: The Future of the World Trade Organization. In 1999, he coauthored Tiger by the Tail: China and the World Trade Organization with Mark Groombridge. Before coming to AEI, he served in the Ford administration, on the staff of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, and as a costaff director of the Presidents Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties.

Gordon G. Chang is the author of The Coming Collapse of China. He has lived and worked in China and Hong Kong and most recently in Shanghai as counsel to the American law firm Paul Weiss. Previously, he worked in Hong Kong as a partner in the international law firm Baker & McKenzie. His writings on China have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Far Eastern Economic Review, the International Herald Tribune, the Weekly Standard, and the South China Morning Post.

Steve Clemons is executive vice president of the New America Foundation and specialist in U.S.-Asia policy and international economic and security affairs. Mr. Clemons has also served as senior policy adviser on economic and international affairs to Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) and was the first executive director of the Nixon Center in Washington. Before 1999, Mr. Clemons served as executive director of the Japan America Society of Southern California and cofounded the Japan Policy Research Institute of which he is still director. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, the National Interest, Asahi Shimbun, Die Welt, the Japan Times, Daily Yomiuri, Der Tagesspiegel, Yomiuri Shimbun, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, the Journal of Northeast Asian Studies, the Taipei Times, the Far Eastern Economic Review, and Foreign Policy.

Tom DeLay serves as house majority leader for the 108th Congress. Since 1984, Mr. DeLay has represented the 22nd District of Texas. In 1994, following a Republican victory, Mr. DeLay was elected house majority whip. Before his election as majority whip, he served as chairman of the Republican Study Committee, as Republican Conference secretary, and as deputy whip. He has been an active advocate for Taiwan free trade.

I Chung Lai is the director of foreign policy studies at the Taiwan ThinkTank. Before his position as director, Mr. Lai served as special assistant to the representative in the Taipei Economic and Culture Representative Office in Japan.

Greg Mastel serves as the international chief adviser at the D.C. law firm Miller & Chevalier. During the 107th Congress, Greg Mastel was the chief international trade adviser and chief economist for the Senate Finance Committee. Before to his position at the Senate Finance Committee, Mr. Mastel was director of the Global Economic Policy Project at the New America Foundation. He was also the director of international trade studies at the Center for National Policy and was vice president and director of studies at the Economic Strategy Institute. He also has taught graduate level courses at the University of Maryland and the Elliott School at George Washington University.

Deanna Tanner Okun is chairman of the United States International Trade Commission. Before her January 2000 appointment to the ITC, she served as counsel for international affairs to Senator Frank Murkowski (R-AK) from 1993 to 1999. She was responsible for the international trade issues in connection with the senator’s membership on the Senate Finance Committee. During her service on Capitol Hill, Ms. Okun also handled international energy and foreign relations issues. Ms. Okun has also been an associate attorney and member of the International Trade Group at the Washington, D.C., law firm of Hogan & Hartson and a research associate specializing in trade at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.

Timothy Ryan is the Asia regional program director for the American Center for International Labor ("Solidarity Center") in Washington. He oversees all Solidarity Center programs for Asia, including offices in the Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, and programs in Burma, China, Hong Kong, India, Pakistan, and Malaysia. From 1993 to 2001, Mr. Ryan served as the Solidarity Center’s field representative for Sri Lanka and Indonesia. His articles on labor and media issues have appeared in Harpers Magazine, the Christian Science Monitor, the Far Eastern Economic Review, Carnegie Human Rights Dialogue, the South Asia Bulletin, and newspapers throughout Asia and Latin America.

Therese Shaheen is chairman of the board and managing director of the American Institute in Taiwan. Before her appointment to AIT, she was president and chief operating officer of U.S. Asia Commercial Development Corporation, a business she founded in 1987 specializing in Asian market entry, international joint ventures, mergers/acquisitions, capital investment, and technology development. Previously, Ms. Shaheen served as Asia regional director for Tokyo-based Refugees International, managing refugee activities in Southwest Asia relating to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and in Cambodia during the Vietnam-Cambodia border conflicts of the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Li Pei Wu is founder and chairman of the Formosa Foundation, a non-partisan, non-profit dedicated to the promotion of U.S.-Taiwan relations. A banker, he recently retired from GBC Bancorp and its subsidiary bank, General Bank, as chairman of the board. He is the chairman emeritus of both companies. Mr. Wu has been featured in the New York Times, Investors Business Daily, the Economist, and Forbes and speaks frequently on economic issues and Asia.