China 2.0 Keynote Speakers

Anna Coll was the Executive Assistant to FSI Director Michael McFaul from May 2015 to June 2017. Prior to joining FSI, Anna served as Research Assistant to Scott Sagan at CISAC, where she assisted Dr. Sagan with research on weapons of mass destruction and the laws and ethics of war. Anna graduated magna cum laude from Wellesley College in 2012 with a BA in International Relations. Her honors thesis explored the assessment mechanism for the Female Engagement Team program in Afghanistan.

Before joining Stanford, Anna worked as a research associate at The Education Advisory Board in Washington, D.C., where she conducted research on higher education issues on behalf of university executives. Anna has also interned at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Harvard Kennedy School, and the Center for a New American Security.

Rob Reich is professor of political science and, by courtesy, professor of philosophy at Stanford University. He is the director of the Center for Ethics in Society and co-director of the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (publisher of the Stanford Social Innovation Review), and associate director of the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. His scholarship in political theory engages with the work of social scientists and engineers. His newest work is on ethics and technology, and he has two books out in 2021: Digital Technology and Democratic Theory (edited with Lucy Bernholz and Hélène Landemore, University of Chicago Press) and System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot (with Mehran Sahami and Jeremy M. Weinstein, HarperCollins). He is the author of Just Giving: Why Philanthropy is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better (Princeton University Press, 2018) and Philanthropy in Democratic Societies: History, Institutions, Values (edited with Chiara Cordelli and Lucy Bernholz, University of Chicago Press, 2016). He is also the author of several books on education: Bridging Liberalism and Multiculturalism in American Education (University of Chicago Press, 2002) and Education, Justice, and Democracy (edited with Danielle Allen, University of Chicago Press, 2013). He has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Wired, and the Stanford Social Innovation Review.

Rob is the recipient of multiple teaching awards, including the Walter J. Gores award, Stanford’s highest honor for teaching. He was a sixth grade teacher at Rusk Elementary School in Houston, Texas before attending graduate school. He is a board member of the magazine Boston Review, of Giving Tuesday, and at the Spencer Foundation.

Bio

Chunping Han is currently a visiting assistant professor at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC). Prior to joining Shorenstein APARC, she was an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Her research interests include perceptions of inequality, subjective well-being, and health in the context of immense social changes. During her time at Shorenstein APARC, she will study how ordinary people define, describe, and explain the sources of life satisfaction, happiness, and psychological distress in transitional China based on in-depth interviews.

Han participated in two national surveys on popular attitudes toward inequality and distributional issues in China. She has also published journal articles and a book chapter on distributive injustice feelings, redistribution attitudes, and livelihood satisfaction in contemporary China.

Han earned her PhD in sociology from Harvard University and her MA in education from Stanford University. She also received an MA from Beijing Foreign Studies University and a BA from Fudan University, China.