In April 2025, iGCU was honored to invite Professor Wang Dong (Full Professor with Tenure at School of International Studies and Executive Director of the Institute for Global Cooperation and Understanding, both at @PekingUniversity1898) and Mr. Peter Walker (Senior Partner Emeritus at McKinsey & Company) to join our Expert Dialogue series.

In May 2025, iGCU was honored to have invited Neysun Mahboubi (The director of Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations at the University of Pennsylvania) to join us for an exclusive interview to share his views on academic and cultural-exchange between China and the United States.

In June 2025, we invited the renowned international political scholar, Professor Robert Pape from the University of Chicago, for a special interview. As a top expert who has long been deeply involved in international security and strategic policies, Professor Pape's research has always focused on the security challenges in the real world.

In May 2025, iGCU was honored to have invited Ambassador Michael McFaul (former U.S. Ambassador to Russia; Director of the FSIS Stanford) to join us for an exclusive interview to share his views on tariff, decoupling, global civilization, public attitudes issues, and discuss how the relationship between China and the United States will develop in the future.

In October 2025, we sat down with Ambassador. Robert Blackwill, Former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor and Former U.S. Ambassador to India, to talk about China-U.S. relations.

In June 2025, we are honored to have Prof. Robert S. Ross, a renowned scholar in the fields of international relations and Chinese studies. He is a professor at Boston College in the United States and a researcher at the Fairbank Center for China Studies at Harvard University. Against the backdrop of complex and changing global dynamics and the evolving China-U.S. relations, we will delve into critical issues with Prof. Ross and look forward to his incisive insights.

We are honored to welcome Mr. James Crabtree—a leading authority on geopolitics, seasoned analyst, and author with deep expertise in Asia. He serves as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, a Visiting Fellow at the Asia Society in New York, and a columnist for Foreign Policy magazine. Against the backdrop of profound shifts in the Asia-Pacific landscape, we will explore several key questions with Mr. Crabtree and look forward to his insightful perspectives.

In May 2025, we had the honor of interviewing Ambassador Max Baucus—former U.S. Ambassador to China and U.S. Senator—and his wife Melodee Hanes, who will share insights on exchanges and cooperation between Chinese and American youth.

In November 2025, iGCU invited Pascal Lamy, the former Director-General of the WTO, to discuss the core challenges faced by the multilateral trading system in the current context and share his insights on digital trade.

In October 2025, we are honored to have Professor Kristen Looney, a distinguished scholar in the fields of Asian Studies and Chinese Politics. She currently serves as an Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Government at Georgetown University in the United States. We will engage in discussions with Professor Looney on topics such as cross-cultural communication, and young people’s attitudes toward life, and look forward to hearing her profound insights.