John Seiler brings extensive experience and insight into his role. He has been press secretary to California state Senator John Moorlach since 2017. Before that he was editorial manager and writer at the Orange County Register since 1987, following a stint as editorial writer at the Washington Times. He also was managing editor for California state government-focused CalWatchdog from 2010-2015. His pieces have appeared in the Los Angeles Daily News, Policy Review, Human Events and Chronicles. And he has written political economic analyses for Laffer Associates since 2002. He is a former Russian linguist for the US Army and a graduate of Hillsdale College.

Patrick Lawrence is a writer and columnist. He has published five books and is now at work on his sixth. He served as a correspondent abroad for many years and is also an essayist, editor, and critic. Lawrence has taught at universities in the U.S. and abroad and lectures widely. He currently produces weekly commentaries for a variety of publications, primarily on foreign affairs and the media. Lawrence was a correspondent and subsequently a columnist overseas for more than 25 years, chiefly for the honorable and now defunct Far Eastern Economic Review, the International Herald Tribune, and The New Yorker. He is a graduate of Vanderbilt University.

Kenneth Rapoza covered Brazil for the WSJ from 2004 to 2010 and then moved to the U.S. where he got his Series 7 and 66 licenses while an emerging markets senior contributor writing about the big four emerging markets: Brazil, Russia, India and China. Ken often travels abroad and has visited or lived in: Brazil, Russia, India, China, Colombia, Ukraine and the United Kingdom. He is a China analyst for the DC based trade association, the Coalition for a Prosperous America, where he is tasked with understanding the geopolitical stresses for those doing business in, or investing in China via the lens of legislative and regulatory threats.