Dr. Dean P. Chen is Professor of Political Science at the School of Humanities and Global Studies, Ramapo College of New Jersey. He holds his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is the author of three books on U.S.-Taiwan and cross-strait relations: U.S.-China-Taiwan in the Age of Trump and Biden: Towards a Nationalist Strategy (New York: Routledge, 2022), U.S.-China Rivalry and Taiwan’s Mainland Policy: Security, Nationalism, and the 1992 Consensus(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), and U.S.-Taiwan Strait Policy: TheOrigins of Strategic Ambiguity (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2012). His articles have appeared in Asian Survey, Asian security, Asian Politics & Policy, Pacific Focus, and International Relations of the Asia-Pacific. Commentaries and policy analyses have appeared in the East West Center Occasional Paper Series, The National Interest, Global Taiwan Brief, Taiwan Insight, and China-US Focus. In 2014-16, Chen served as coordinator of the Conference Group on Taiwan Studies of the American Political Science Association (APSA). He was a Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) Taiwan Fellow in 2014 and a Fulbright U.S. Scholar in the People's Republic of China during 2017-18. Currently, Chen serves on the Board of Directors of the American Association for Chinese Studies (AACS). In November 2023, Chen received a grant from the Taipei Economic & Cultural Representative Office (TECRO) in Washington DC to host the annual Taiwan & Asia Program conference at Ramapo College of New Jersey. The conference featured China and Taiwan experts in the United States and around the world to discuss and examine the changing US-China-Taiwan strategic relations in light of the 2024 presidential elections in Taiwan and the United States.

Sean King joined Park Strategies, a business advisory firm founded by former U.S. Senator Alfonse D'Amato, in 2006. His focus is Asia, generating business and supporting clients in the region. He helped manage the firm’s Taipei office from 2010-16. Mr. King is also a University of Notre Dame Liu Institute for Asia & Asian Affairs Affiliated Scholar. In October 2022, he was a Visiting Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), an autonomous think tank and graduate school within Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Before joining Park Strategies, Mr. King spent five years at the United States Department of Commerce in Washington, DC, where he served as Senior Advisor for Asia in the U.S. & Foreign Commercial Service (USFCS). Before joining Commerce, Mr. King was based in Singapore for both PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Citibank. He has an MBA from Notre Dame and an undergraduate degree from the American University in Washington, D.C. A regular media presence, Mr. King first visited Taiwan in 1997 where he also interned for Citibank in 1998.