Jason Wright

Senior managing director·K2 Integrity

Jason Wright is a senior managing director in the Investigations and Disputes practice of K2 Integrity, resident in London. He provides strategic intelligence to clients, particularly asset management firms, to assist them in maximizing opportunities and minimizing risks in investments, acquisitions, disputes, and other matters.

Jason joined K2 Integrity from Argo Associates Ltd, a Hong Kong–headquartered business intelligence and political risk consultancy that he founded in 2018. Serving as managing director of the consultancy, Jason worked with clients—including asset management companies and corporations across industries—on high-value and complex business intelligence projects, political risk assignments, litigation support, and fraud investigations. His work was typified by an integrated understanding of various connected risks coupled with sophisticated analysis and intelligence gathering. Prior to founding Argo Associates, Jason worked at Kroll for over a decade, including more than five years in senior management roles. Before that, he worked as a television producer, director, and journalist on current affairs and art documentaries and magazine programs.

Jason has contributed numerous opinion pieces and interviews for publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The Observer, The Times, The New York Times, and The Korean Economic Daily.

Jason received his M.A. in state management and humanitarian studies from La Sapienza University in Rome and his M.A. (Oxon) from St. Catherine’s College, Oxford University, where he was a scholar. He is fluent in Italian and also speaks basic Korean and Mandarin.

Alice Shone

Associate director·K2 Integrity

Alice Shone is an associate managing director in K2 Integrity’s Investigations and Disputes practice, based in London. Alice works with corporations, high-net-worth individuals, banks, asset managers, and governments on matters ranging from pre-investment due diligence to investigations, litigation support, and asset tracing. She works across multiple sectors, such as banking and financial services, technology, healthcare, maritime, infrastructure, and energy.

Prior to joining K2 Integrity, Alice worked as an associate director at a global corporate intelligence firm, where she led pre-investment due diligence engagements and investigations with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region. She worked extensively with private equity and venture capital firms, development finance institutions (DFIs), and corporations to conduct due diligence ahead of complex multinational transactions. As a Mandarin speaker, she has considerable experience in Greater China, as well as South and South East Asia.

Earlier in her career, Alice served as a programme manager at Transparency International UK, where she engaged with the private sector on various business integrity initiatives.

Alice received an M.A. in international studies and diplomacy from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and a B.A. in English from the University of Cambridge.

Rana Miller

S.T. Lee Chair in U.S.-Asia Relations·Harvard Kenedy School

Rana Mitter OBE FBA is ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is the author of several books, including China’s War with Japan: The Struggle for Survival, 1937-1945 (US title: Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II) (2013) which won the 2014 RUSI/Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military Literature, and was named a Book of the Year in the Financial Times and Economist. His latest book is China’s Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism (Harvard, 2020). His writing on contemporary China has appeared recently in Foreign Affairs, the Harvard Business Review, The Spectator, The Critic, and The Guardian. He has commented regularly on China in media and forums around the world, including at the World Economic Forum at Davos. His recent documentary on contemporary Chinese politics "Meanwhile in Beijing" is available on BBC Sounds. He is co-author, with Sophia Gaston, of the report “Conceptualizing a UK-China Engagement Strategy” (British Foreign Policy Group, 2020). He won the 2020 Medlicott Medal for Service to History, awarded by the UK Historical Association. He taught at Oxford for more than twenty years.

Niklas Ponnert

Managing director and chief strategy officer·eWTP Arabia Capital Management

Niklas is the Managing Director and Chief Strategy Officer of eWTP Arabia Capital. He brings over twenty years of China and emerging markets private equity investing, capital markets, and fund management experience. Niklas joined the firm from B Capital, the international multi-stage investment firm launched by Eduardo Saverin, the co-founder of Facebook. Previously, he was a Partner and Managing Director with China Equity, one of China’s first independent private equity firms. Niklas launched his investing career with Siemens Venture Capital, where he structured and executed technology investments across China, India, and South-East Asia. He has held executive and board roles with a dozen private and publicly listed portfolio companies. A Swedish national, Niklas is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. He speaks Mandarin Chinese.