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Daniel B. PONEMAN is Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). From 2015 to 2023, he served as Pres- ident and CEO of Centrus Energy Corp. Previously, he served as Deputy Secretary of Energy, and as Chief Operating Officer of the U.S. Department of Energy. In prior tours in government, he served as a White House Fellow and on the National Secu- rity Council. He was a Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and Inter- national Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School. He holds an M.Litt. in politics from the University of Oxford and a J.D. and an A.B. with honors from Harvard University.

HORII Akinari is Special Advisor and a member of the Board of Directors of the Canon Institute for Global Studies. He is also a member of Keizai Doyukai; the Trilateral Commission; and the Board of Councillors of the Institute for International Monetary Affairs. Akinari Horii was a central banker until he stepped down as Assistant Governor of the Bank of Japan in 2010, i.e., G7D and G20D of the BOJ. After he left the Bank, he was a member of the audit and supervision board at Tokio Marine Holdings; advisor to Nomura Securities; a member of the advisory board at Japan International Cooperation Agency; Deputy Chaiman of the US-Japan Foundation, et al. Mr. Horii received his MBA with distinction from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and his BA in Economics from the University of Tokyo.

KIM Yoon is Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) and President of Twelve Labs, an AI company specializing in video understand- ing. Prior to this role, he was a Partner at Saehan Ventures, re- sponsible for global investment of deep tech startups in AI and the metaverse. Before his role at Saehan Ventures, he served as CTO at SK Telecom, leading R&D and innovations in AI and 5G for hyperconnected intelligence applications in security, data analytics, me- dia, cloud, and new mobility. He holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University and a B.S. from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.

KIM Yoosuk is President of Chey Institute for Advanced Studies (CHEY) and Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies (KFAS). He has been with SK for more than 15 years, serving in numerous key positions, which include Executive Vice President of SK Inc, CFO at SK On (EV Battery Business), CFO at SK Energy (Oil Refinery and Marketing), and Vice President of SK China. Before joining SK, he was the Director of Alternative En- ergy Division at bp plc., and a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. His career began as a diplomat in the Republic of Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. President Kim holds an MBA from Yale University and a B.A. in philoso- phy from Seoul National University.

LEE Chung Min is Senior Fellow at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Until recently, he was a University Profes- sor at Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology. He is also Chairman of the International Advisory Council of IISS. He has worked at leading think tanks and universities in the U.S., Korea, Japan, and Singapore. He also served as ROK Ambassador for National Security Affairs and Ambassador for International Se- curity Affairs. He holds a Ph.D. and an MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and his B.A. in political science from Yonsei University.

Patrick M. Cronin is the Asia-Pacific security chair at Hudson Institute. Previously, he was the senior director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS); senior director of the Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS) at the National Defense University, where he simultaneously oversaw the Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs; director of studies at the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS); senior vice president and director of research at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS); and director of research at the US Institute of Peace.