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DR. JONATHAN D. T. WARD has been studying the rise of China for more than a decade. From travels with truck caravans in Tibet and across the South China Sea by cargo ship in his early twenties, to accessing Communist Party archives that have now been closed to the world while a PhD candidate at Oxford, to consulting for the U.S. Department of Defense and Fortune 500 companies, Dr. Ward has brought the experience of a traveler, the discipline of a scholar, and the insight of a strategy consultant to one of the biggest challenges of our time: what does China want, how will it try to get it, and what should America do? Dr. Ward is the Founder of Atlas Organization, a Washington DC and New York based consultancy focused on the rise of India and China, and on US China global competition. He is a frequently invited speaker for government, industry, think tank, expert, and public audiences in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Dr. Ward has briefed a wide range of audiences from the US Defense Intelligence Agency to the US Navy Strategy Division, to the Wall Street Journal, leading American corporations, and the UK Ministry of Defence Dr. Ward is represented by London Speaker Bureau as a keynote on Global Trends. He is a member of the 2018 Next Generation National Security Leaders Fellowship program at the Center for a New American Security in Washington DC, a Research Associate at the University of Oxford’s Changing Character of War Programme, and a former visiting scholar at the University of Oxford China Centre. He speaks Russian, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic, and spent ten years overseas in China, India, Russia, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East before returning to the United States to found Atlas Organization. A US citizen, Dr. Ward earned his PhD in China India relations and his M.St. in Global and Imperial History at the University of Oxford.

Testimonials

“Dr. Jonathan Ward is clearly one of the leading lights on China today. Ward’s brilliant analysis of Chinese strategy and the near and long-term outlook for US-China competition is essential for any serious audience dealing with the changes in today’s geopolitical and macroeconomic landscape, particularly for those who are thinking globally and managing large pools of capital.”

– John Mauldin, Strategic Investment Conference 2020

"When I speak with our customers and partners concerning digital transformation, the word 'global' is almost always implied – and it's not a global perspective if it isn't well informed, and unblinkingly insightful, on the role and the intentions of China. Few people can offer that perspective as clearly and credibly as Jonathan Ward: whether we're talking with bankers, or manufacturers, or practitioners in any other sector, I've been privileged to have Jonathan as a featured guest speaker who never leaves an audience unchanged by what they've heard."

– Peter Coffee, VP for Strategic Research, Salesforce

Speaking Topics

Keynote Speaking focused on China’s Vision of Victory and US-China Competition:

• Chinese economic grand strategy; the Belt and Road Initiative; the Digital Silk Road

• National plans and strategies; Made in China 2025; 14th Five-Year Plan 2021-2025

• China’s rise on the Fortune Global 500; Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent (BATs)

• Chinese corporations go global; state-owned enterprises and their ambitions

• Chinese political history and Xi Jinping’s leadership of the Chinese Communist Party

• Chinese military strategy and the new global footprint

• Civil-military fusion and China’s National Champions

• US corporate risk in the Chinese domestic market

• Chinese ambitions in strategic industries; Automotive, Energy, Space, Technology