Mercy A. Kuo

She was formerly executive vice president at a U.S. business risk intelligence consultancy, where she advised Fortune 500 companies on geopolitical risk.

Dr. Kuo has held executive leadership positions as president and executive director of the Washington State China Relations Council in Seattle, managing director and research director at the Committee of 100, a U.S.-China relations leadership organization in New York City, and director of the Southeast Asia and Strategic Asia programs at a U.S. foreign policy think tank. She previously served as an all-source analyst specializing in Northeast and Southeast Asian political, security, and military issues at the Central Intelligence Agency.

Dr. Kuo’s select publications include: “China-Russia Cooperation in Africa and the Middle East,” The Diplomat, April 3, 2023; “The Case That Could Hand the Future to China,” RealClearPolicy, November 25, 2019; “The China Factor in EU-US Relations: Fault Lines and Futures,” Security Policy Library, December 2019 Norwegian Atlantic Committee; “China’s Strategic Orientation: Assessing Alternative Futures,” China in the 21st Century: History, Security and International Relations, Vol. 3 (Praeger 2014), and Contending with Contradictions: China’s Policy towards Soviet Eastern Europe and the Origins of the Sino-Soviet Split, 1953-1960 (Lexington 2001).

Dr. Kuo provides subject-matter expertise on U.S.-China relations, Chinese foreign policy, China-EU-NATO dynamics, and the impact of geopolitical risk on business at international and national academic, business, investment, and government forums. She holds a Ph.D. in modern history from Oxford University and is a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and International Institute for Strategic Studies.