Thomas Kellogg is advisor to the president and program officer at the Open Society Institute in New York. He is also adjunct professor of law at Fordham Law School, where he teaches courses on Chinese law.

He has worked for a wide range of nongovernmental organizations in the United States, Asia, and the Middle East, focusing on the development of the rule of law. He has written widely on legal reform in China, and has lectured on Chinese law at a number of universities in the United States and in China. Before joining the Open Society Institute, Kellogg was a senior fellow at the China Law Center at Yale Law School. He is a 2003 graduate of the Harvard Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Harvard Human Rights Journal.

Bobo Lo is director of the Russia and China programs at the Center for European Reform. He has written extensively on Russian foreign and security policy, with a particular focus on Sino-Russian relations. Lo was previously first secretary and then deputy head of mission at the Australian Embassy in Moscow (1995-1999).

Lo has completed a new book, Axis of Convenience: Moscow, Beijing and the New Geopolitics (Brookings Institution and Chatham House, 2008). He is the author of three other books, including Vladimir Putin and the Evolution of Russian Foreign Policy (Blackwell Publishing and Chatham House, 2003) and Russian Foreign Policy in the Post Soviet Era: Reality, Illusion and Mythmaking (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002). Lo has an MA from Oxford University and a PhD from the University of Melbourne.

Gilbert Rozman is the Musgrave professor of Sociology at Princeton University. His research concentrates on China, Japan, Russia, and South Korea, including comparisons, bilateral relations, and regionalism.

Recent co-edited books include: Russian Strategic Thinking toward Asia (2006), Japanese Strategic Thinking toward Asia (2007), and Korea at the Center: The Dynamics of Regionalism in Northeast Asia (2006). Recent monographs are Northeast Asia’s Stunted Regionalism: Bilateral Distrust in the Shadow of Globalization (2004) and Strategic Thinking about the Korean Nuclear Crisis: Four Parties Caught between North Korea and the United States (2007). He is currently completing a monograph on Chinese strategic thought toward Asia. Rozman holds a BA from Carleton College and a PhD from Princeton University.

Elizabeth Wishnick is an assistant professor of political science and law at Montclair State University and a research associate at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Her current book project, "China as a Risk Society," examines how transnational problems shape Chinese foreign relations with neighboring states and involve Chinese civil society in foreign policy.

Wishnick also writes on great power relations in Asia, and her study entitled Russia, China, and the United States in Central Asia: Prospects for Great Power Competition and Cooperation in the Shadow of the Georgian Crisis was published by the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College in February 2009. She is the author of Mending Fences: The Evolution of Moscow's China Policy from Brezhnev to Yeltsin (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001). Wishnick received a PhD in political science from Columbia University, an MA in Russian and East European Studies from Yale University, and a BA from Barnard College.