The following 56 participants from 37 unique institutions have confirmed their participation in the conference.
| Erin Carter, University of Southern California | Margaret Pearson, University of Maryland, College Park |
| Ling Chen, Johns Hopkins University | Elizabeth Perry, Harvard University |
| Chelsea (Chia-Chen) Chou, National Taiwan University | Benjamin Read, University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Bruce Dickson, George Washington University | Maria Repnikova, Georgia State University |
| Martin Dimitrov, Tulane University | Meg Rithmire, Harvard University |
| Iza (Yue) Ding, University of Pittsburgh | Dan Slater, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| Mary E. Gallagher, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | Susan Shirk, University of California, San Diego |
| Sheena Greitens, University of Texas, Austin | Victor Shih, University of California, San Diego |
| Dimitar Gueorguiev, Syracuse University | Daniela Stockmann, Hertie School |
| Rongbin Han, University of Georgia | Yeling Tan, University of Oregon |
| Jean Hong, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Kellee S. Tsai, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| Yasheng Huang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Lily Tsai, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Kyle Jargos, University of Notre Dame | Patricia Thornton, University of Oxford |
| Karrie Koesel, University of Notre Dame | Rory Truex, Princeton University |
| Daniel Koss, Harvard University | Andrew Walder, Stanford University |
| Pierre Landry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Jeremy Wallace, Cornell University |
| Ning Leng, Georgetown University | Yuhua Wang, Harvard University |
| Xiaojun Li, University of British Columbia | Juan Wang, McGill University |
| Ann Lin, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | Jessica Weiss, Cornell University |
| Jundai Liu, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | Susan Whiting, University of Washington |
| Kristen Looney, Georgetown University | Jason Wu, Indiana University, Bloomington |
| Melanie Manion Duke University | Yiqing Xu, Stanford University |
| Daniel Mattingly, Yale University | Xiaohong Xu, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| Andrew Mertha, Johns Hopkins University | Xu Xu, Princeton University |
| Kevin O’Brien, University of California, Berkeley | Yujeong Yang, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| Jean Oi, Stanford University | Yanshuo Zhang, Kalamazoo College |
| Lynette Ong, University of Toronto | Yun Zhou, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| Jennifer Pan, Stanford University | Boliang Zhu, Pennsylvania State University |