Derek Grossman

Derek Grossman is a senior defense analyst at RAND focused on a range of Indo-Pacific security issues. He closely tracks intensifying U.S.-China competition throughout the region. Before RAND, Grossman served over a decade in the Intelligence Community, including as daily intelligence briefer to the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Jennifer Kavanagh

Jennifer Kavanagh is a senior fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. A political scientist by training, she has spent her career studying national security threats and their consequences for U.S. foreign policy. Prior to joining Carnegie, Kavanagh was a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation.

Steven Kosiak

Steven Kosiak is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute and a nationally-recognized expert on the US defense and international affairs budgets, with extensive experience in national security planning and budgeting. He is also a partner with ISM Strategies, a Washington, DC based consulting firm. 

Michael Swaine (Moderator)

Michael D. Swaine is a Senior Research Fellow in the Quincy Institute's East Asia program and one of the most prominent American scholars of Chinese security studies. He comes to QI from Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he worked for nearly twenty years as a senior fellow specializing in Chinese defense and foreign policy.