Staff
Jack Neubauer is a Senior Policy Analyst on the Security and Foreign Affairs team.
Staff
Benton Gordon is a Policy Analyst on the Economics and Trade team. He previously worked as an editorial assistant at the National Bureau of Asian Research.
Commission Member
Mike Kuiken serves as Vice Chair of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission following nearly 23 years in the U.S. Senate and is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. In the private sector, Mike is the Managing Member of Silver Valley Strategies, where he advises founders, CEOs, and investors on geopolitical and government strategies. He is an advisor to the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP) and a member of Anthropic's National Security and Public Sector Advisory Council. He serves on the boards of the National Defense Industrial Association and the Planetary Science Institute. Vice Chair Kuiken was reappointed to the Commission by Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer for a term expiring December 31, 2027.
Staff
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. As a graduate student in international economics at the Hopkins Nanjing Center at Nanjing University, Zoe wrote and defended her thesis on Chinese foreign direct investment in Japan’s service economy in Mandarin Chinese.
Commission Member
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 reappointed by House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries for a term expiring December 31, 2027.
Commission Member
Leland Miller is the co-founder and CEO of China Beige Book, where for over a decade and a half he has run the world’s largest private macroeconomic survey of China’s economy and financial system. A noted authority on these issues, trade dynamics, and U.S.-China technology competition, Miller is a frequent commentator on media outlets such as CNBC, Bloomberg TV, CNN, and FOX Business, and his work is featured regularly in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, Washington Post and many others. Before co-founding China Beige Book in 2010, he was a capital markets attorney based out of New York and Hong Kong and worked on the deal team at a major investment bank. An elected life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, he returned to W&L as the Williams School’s Executive-in-Residence in 2015. Commissioner Miller was reappointed by Speaker Mike Johnson for a term expiring December 31, 2027.