Commission Member
05/10/2024
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. Mike is also a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Mike is also exploring opportunities in the private sector.
Mike previously served as Majority Leader Schumer's National Security Advisor, holding the Senate's most senior national security staff role. As a “Gang of Eight” staff member, he played a key role in shaping critical national security policies and providing oversight on intelligence operations, particularly on the most sensitive matters, for over seven years.
Mike also led the successful campaign that crafted, negotiated, and secured the passage of the CHIPS and Science Act and played a key role in establishing and managing the Senate's bipartisan Artificial Intelligence Insight Forums.
Prior to joining Senator Schumer’s team, Mike spent more than a decade on the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) staff as a professional staff member. During his time on the SASC, he worked for two giants of the Senate: Jack Reed and the late Carl Levin.
Commissioner Michael Kuiken was appointed to the Commission by Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer for a term expiring December 31, 2025.
Staff
04/10/2024
Niels Graham is a Policy Analyst on the Economics and Trade team at the Commission. He previously was an associate director for the Atlantic Council GeoEconomics Center where he managed the center’s research on the Chinese economy and U.S. international economic policy in the Indo-Pacific.
Staff
03/06/2024
Zoe Merewether is Policy Analyst on the Economics and Trade team and joined the Commission as a Research Assistant in 2024. She has four years of experience in technology, media, and telecommunications corporate and investment banking at institutions focused on China and the broader APAC region.
Commission Member
02/07/2024
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.
Commission Member
02/07/2024
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. He is also a Senior Fellow in the America First Policy Institute's Center for American Security. 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.
Commission Member
02/07/2024
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.
Staff
02/07/2024
Walter Hutchens joined the Commission staff as Director, Economics and Trade in January 2024 after two decades as a professor specializing in commercial law, China, and international business.
Staff
11/14/2023
Nicole Morgret is a Policy Analyst on the Security and Foreign Affairs team. Prior to joining the Commission in 2023, she worked as an analyst on the Center for Advanced Defense Studies’ (C4ADS) Human Security team and as project manager at the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP).
Staff
11/13/2023
Evan Ulman serves as the Commission’s Administrative Assistant.
Staff
11/06/2023
Sarah Anderson serves as the Operations Specialist at the Commission where she manages a portfolio consisting of travel, procurement, budget execution, IT support, and special projects.
