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Alex Wong

Alex Wong

Alex Wong is the head of public affairs for Coupang, a Fortune 200 company operating across Asia, and is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute. He has served as a close advisor to corporate executives, cabinet secretaries, members of Congress and presidential nominees. He recently completed a term as chairman of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, and in the Trump administration, he served as deputy special representative for North Korea and deputy assistant secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. He was previously the foreign policy adviser to Sen. Tom Cotton and foreign and legal policy director for Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign. He began his national security career as an Iraq rule of law adviser for the State Department, and in this capacity he served in Baghdad at the height of the surge strategy. Wong practiced law at Covington and Burling and clerked for Judge Janice Rogers Brown on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of Pennsylvania.