Alex Wong is President and Global Chief Strategy Officer of Hanwha Group. He leads the company’s defense, shipbuilding, and aerospace strategy across international markets.

Prior to joining Hanwha, Wong served in the second Trump administration as Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy National Security Advisor. In this role, he coordinated U.S. policy across the full spectrum of defense, intelligence, and international relations and closely advised the President on these matters. Wong has also held senior positions at the U.S. Department of State, including Deputy Special Representative for North Korea and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian & Pacific Affairs. In these roles, he conducted nuclear negotiations with North Korea and executed U.S. strategy across the broader Indo-Pacific region. Wong also served as a diplomat in Iraq at the height of the military surge strategy, leading the State Department’s judicial and anticorruption reconstruction efforts.

Wong previously served as Foreign Policy Advisor and General Counsel to U.S. Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), where he was the senator’s chief advisor on issues related to national security, international relations, and law enforcement.

Wong was appointed by Congress as the Chairman of the U.S.-China Economic & Security Review Commission, was a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, and was the Foreign and Legal Policy Director for the Romney-Ryan 2012 presidential campaign.

Wong is a licensed attorney who spent years counseling Fortune 100 clients on international trade and governmental investigations at Covington & Burling, the Washington, DC-based international firm. He earned his law degree from Harvard Law School, where he was the Managing Editor of the Harvard Law Review and an editor of the Harvard International Law Journal. He received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania in English literature and French.