Anja Manuel has been a member of our Board of Directors since April 2024. She is the co-founder of and a partner in Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC, a strategic consulting firm founded in 2009 that helps US companies navigate international regulatory issues and expand into international markets. She has also served as the Executive Director of the Aspen Strategy Group and Aspen Security Forum, a premier bi-partisan forum on foreign policy in the U.S, since January 2022. She previously served as an official in the U.S. State Department, as an attorney at WilmerHale, and as an investment banker at Salomon Brothers. Ms. Manuel lectured and was a research affiliate at Stanford University from 2009 to 2019 and 2024 through the present, teaching courses on U.S. Foreign Policy in Asia and Technology Policy. She is the author of the critically acclaimed book “This Brave New World: India, China and the United States,” published by Simon and Schuster in 2016, and numerous articles and papers. Ms. Manuel served as a member of the board of directors of Overseas Shipping Group, Inc., a publicly traded transportation company, from June 2017 to June 2023. She currently serves on the board of directors of Ripple Labs, Inc., a privately held blockchain payments company, since August 2017 and is a member of several advisory boards of private companies, foundations and governmental entities, including the U.S. Defense Department Policy Board. Ms. Manuel received an MA and BA in International Policy Studies from Stanford University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.