About WorldViews
A multilingual platform for understanding before conflict
Our Mission
WorldViews is a platform for substantive conversations with leading global thinkers. We create space for dialogue on the world's most pressing questions — not to provide simple answers, but to illuminate the complexity that informed understanding requires.
In an era of increasing polarization, we believe that genuine dialogue — rooted in intellectual rigor and mutual respect — remains civilization's most powerful tool for progress.
Our Approach
Multilingual by Design
We operate in English and Chinese not as translation, but as parallel ecosystems. Each language opens different networks, histories, and frames of reference.
Long-Form Conversations
Complexity requires time. Our conversations are extended dialogues that allow ideas to develop, evolve, and deepen beyond sound bites.
Institutional Quality
We aspire to the rigor of academic discourse and the accessibility of public media, creating a space that is both serious and welcoming.
Host
Dr. Hansong Li (李汉松)
Assistant Professor, School of International Service, American University
Dr. Li is a political theorist and historian of political, economic, and legal thought. He received his B.A. from the University of Chicago, M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge, and Ph.D. in Philosophy from Harvard University.
His research explores the normative languages and cultural practices of interstate justice in Western, South Asian, and East Asian traditions. He is a Faculty Associate at Harvard University's Mittal Institute for South Asia and an affiliate at the Weatherhead Centre for International Affairs.
His forthcoming book from Harvard University Press, "Common Justice: Interpolitical Thought in Western, Indian, and Chinese Traditions," examines philosophical debates over world justice across multiple intellectual traditions, demonstrating how diverse peoples have long been thinking in startlingly compatible ways.
Board of Advisers
Grant Kettering
Founder, KGA; China Expert, World Economic Forum; Director, Governance Institute
Grant Kettering is an American citizen born and raised in Colorado. He serves as a China Expert at the World Economic Forum and a Director of the Governance Institute, and is a Member of the Economic Club of New York and the Cultural Evolution Society.
He was awarded a Master of Arts in Liberal Arts by St. John's College Annapolis, where he studied political philosophy and ancient Greek, and a Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude by Northwestern University, where he studied mathematics, philosophy, and physics. He resides in New York City and Steamboat Springs.
Mr. Kettering serves in a strictly private and non-commercial capacity as an advisor or interlocutor regarding national security policy with senior officials in several governments, as well as former officials, analysts, and academics. He has never been a member of a political party. He is the Founder of KGA, a permanent capital platform built on the conviction that entrepreneurs and investors have both a duty and an opportunity to create significant, durable value by allocating capital in ways that take into consideration holistic human and natural wellbeing.
Bill K. Wang
Research Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
Bill K. Wang is a Research Fellow at Harvard University's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. He serves on the Board of Directors of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library Foundation and is a member of the Economic Club of New York.
From 2013 to 2017, he was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School's Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, and Harvard Law School's Program on East Asian Legal Studies.
His research focuses on theories of the state and the comparative study of state governance, drawing on long-running engagement with American political and legal institutions to inform cross-cultural dialogue on governance.
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