Commission Members

Robin Cleveland, PhD, Chairman, 2024 Report Cycle

Dr. Robin Cleveland is currently a psychotherapist in private practice after earning her PhD in Counseling. Previously, she served as the Executive Director at the Graduate School of Education and Human Development at The George Washington University. Chairman Cleveland worked in a variety of positions for U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell including service on the Senate Intelligence, Foreign Relations, and Appropriations Committees. She has also served as former Counselor to the President of the World Bank, and as former Associate Director at the White House Office of Management and Budget. Chairman Cleveland was reappointed to the Commission in 2022 by Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell for a term expiring December 31, 2024.

Reva Price, Vice Chair, 2024 Report Cycle

Reva Price is the former Director of Outreach and Senior Advisor for former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. During her more than seventeen-year tenure with Speaker Pelosi, Vice Chair Price played a central role across the spectrum of domestic and foreign policy issues. She handled key aspects of several foreign policy portfolios with particular emphasis on China as well as the Middle East. She was also responsible for building relationships with a varied and wide segment of groups, coalitions, and non-governmental organizations, strengthening communication and awareness of the Speaker’s priorities and activities to the American people. She was appointed to the Commission by then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for a term expiring December 31, 2024.

Aaron Friedberg

Aaron Friedberg is Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1987, and co-director of Princeton’s Center for International Security Studies. He is also a non-resident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a counselor to the National Bureau of Asian Research. From 2003 to 2005 he served as a Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs in the office of the Vice President and he was subsequently appointed to the Defense Policy Board. In 2000-2001 he was a member of a panel tasked by Congress with reviewing the CIA’s analysis of China. Friedberg is the author of several books including, most recently, Getting China Wrong. Commissioner Friedberg was reappointed to the Commission by Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell for a term expiring December 31, 2025.

Kimberly T. Glas

Commissioner Glas joined the National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO) in May 2019 as President and CEO representing domestic manufacturers of textiles and apparel. She has over two decades experience in government and policy advocacy focused on economics, trade, and manufacturing. Most recently she served as Executive Director of the BlueGreen Alliance, a non-profit partnership of labor unions and environmental organizations. Commissioner Glas was reappointed by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer for a term expiring December 31, 2024.

Hon. Carte P. Goodwin

Senator Carte Goodwin is an attorney with the law firm of Frost Brown Todd, LLP where he serves as the Partner-in-Charge of its Charleston office, vice chair of the Appellate Practice Group, and leader of the firm’s Industry Consultants and Advisors team. In 2010, Senator Goodwin was appointed by then West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin III to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the passing of Senator Robert C. Byrd, where he served until a special election was held to fill the remainder of Senator Byrd’s unexpired term. In 2009, Senator Goodwin chaired the Independent Commission on Judicial Reform in West Virginia, and during the four years prior, served as General Counsel to then West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin III. He was reappointed to the Commission by Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer for a term expiring December 31, 2025.

Jacob Helberg

Jacob Helberg is a Senior Advisor to the Chief Executive Officer of Palantir Technologies and the author of The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power (Simon & Schuster, October 2021). Helberg is an Adjunct Senior Fellow for the Technology and National Security Program at CNAS and was a Senior Advisor at the Stanford University Center on Geopolitics and Technology until 2022. From 2016 to 2020, Helberg was Google’s global lead for the company's internal global product policy efforts to combat foreign interference. Prior to joining Google, Helberg was a member of the founding team of GeoQuant, a geopolitical risk forecasting technology company acquired by Fitch Ratings. Jacob Helberg received his M.S. in cybersecurity risk and strategy from New York University. Commissioner Helberg was appointed to the Commission in 2022 by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy for a term expiring December 31, 2024.

Michael Kuiken

Mike Kuiken serves as a Commissioner on the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission following nearly 23 years in the U.S. Senate. He is also a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, an Expert Advisor at the Strategic Competition Studies Project, and an advisor to CEOs, boards, and senior leaders of investment, AI, defense, and technology firms across the country. Mike previously served as Majority Leader Schumer's National Security Advisor, holding the Senate's most senior national security staff role. He also crafted and led the successful campaign that secured the passage of the CHIPS and Science Act and played a key role in establishing and managing the Senate's Artificial Intelligence Insight Forums. Prior to joining Senator Schumer’s team, Mike spent more than 12 years as a professional staff member on the Senate Armed Services Committee. Mike began his career on the staff of the late Senator Carl Levin. Commissioner Michael Kuiken was appointed to the Commission by Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer for a term expiring December 31, 2025.

Leland R. Miller

Commissioner Leland R. Miller is the co-founder and CEO of China Beige Book. A noted authority on China’s economy and financial system, he is a frequent commentator on media outlets such as CNBC, Bloomberg TV, CNN, and FOX Business, and he has served as guest host of two of the financial world’s top morning news shows, CNBC Squawk Box and Bloomberg Surveillance. Before co-founding China Beige Book in 2010, Leland was a capital markets attorney based out of New York and Hong Kong and worked on the deal team at a major investment bank. Leland is an elected member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, an elected life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a board member of the Global Interdependence Center, and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security at the Atlantic Council. Commissioner Miller was appointed by Speaker Mike Johnson for a term expiring December 31, 2025.

Hon. Randall Schriver

Mr. Randall Schriver is the Chairman of the Board of the Project 2049 Institute and a partner at Pacific Solutions LLC. He is also a lecturer for Stanford University’s “Stanford-in-Washington” program, is on the Board of Advisors to the Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA, and Board of Directors of the US-Taiwan Business Council. Just prior, he served for two years as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs where he led a team of nearly one hundred professionals and was the principal advisor to the Secretary of Defense on matters related to the Indo-Pacific region. Commissioner Schriver was reappointed by Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell for a term expiring December 31, 2025.

Cliff Sims

Commissioner Cliff Sims served as Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Strategy and Communications, helping to oversee the 18 agencies of the U.S. intelligence community (IC) and playing an integral role in shifting the IC's funding and focus toward the threat of a rising and adversarial China. Sims was previously Special Assistant to the President and Director of White House Message Strategy. He has appeared on Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, and ABC, and his opinions on national security, foreign policy, and current events have been published in The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The National Interest, and numerous other publications. Commissioner Sims graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Alabama with a degree in Political Science and received an Executive Certificate in Public Leadership from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Commissioner Sims was appointed by Speaker Mike Johnson for a term expiring December 31, 2025.

Hon. Jonathan N. Stivers

Commissioner Jonathan Stivers is the U.S. Director of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong (CFHK) Foundation. He recently served as the Democratic Staff Director on the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the U.S. and Chinese Communist Party, a Professional Staff Member on the House State-Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee, and as the Staff Director of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. In the Obama Administration, Jon served as USAID Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Asia managing a budget of approximately $1.2 billion in foreign assistance and led a staff of approximately 1,200 development professionals in 32 countries in East Asia and the Pacific Islands, South Asia, and Central Asia. Prior to that, Jon was a Senior Advisor to Speaker Nancy Pelosi responsible of foreign policy and trade issues including U.S.-China relations. He previously served as a USCC Commissioner from 2017-2018. Commissioner Stivers was appointed by House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries for a term expiring December 31, 2025.

Michael R. Wessel

Michael Wessel is an original member of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. He is currently the president of The Wessel Group Inc., and serves as staff chair of the Labor Advisory Committee for Trade Negotiations and Trade Policy to the USTR and Secretary of Labor. Previously he worked as former General Counsel to Congressman Richard A. Gephardt, and was on Gephardt’s staff for more than two decades in a variety of positions. Commissioner Wessel was reappointed by then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for a term expiring December 31, 2024.

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