Carlos Frederico Pereira da Silva Gama
Carlos Frederico Pereira da Silva Gama is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations and Governance Studies, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, and the author of four books including Global Essays – From Arab Spring to Brexit, 2011-2020.
M.V. Ramana
M.V. Ramana is the Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security and Professor at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, and the author of The Power Of Promise: Examining Nuclear Energy In India. He is a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials, the Canadian Pugwash Group, the International Nuclear Risk Assessment Group, an affiliate of the Centre for Climate Justice at UBC, and the team that produces the annual World Nuclear Industry Status Report
Simon Tatz
Simon Tatz is the former Director of Public Health for the Australian Medical Association (AMA); Director of Communications, Mental Health Australia; Director of Policy, Mental Health Victoria; Chief of Staff to Minister for Higher Education and Senior Health Advisor, Australian Greens. He co-authored The Sealed Box of Suicide: The Contexts of Self-Death [Springer Academic].
Hasan Illaik
Hasan Illaik is a Lebanese journalist who has worked with various regional media outlets and platforms, including 15 years with leading daily Al Akhbar. His reporting is focused on issues related to Syria, Lebanon, US interventionism, economics, and security affairs, including Israeli espionage.
Dmitry Trenin
Dmitry Treninis a research professor at the Higher School of Economics and a lead research fellow at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations. He is also a member of the Russian International Affairs Council.
Tony Lawson
Tony Lawson Board Chair, Consumers Health Forum of Australia for last 11 years. Board Director since 2010. Been actively involved in consumer health for over 2 decades. Also been involved in major health projects, including Indigenous Health. Former Director on Board of Australian Healthcare Standards and in 2024 was awarded the Presidents Award for outstanding contribution to safety and quality in health care.
As`ad AbuKhalil
As`ad AbuKhalil is a Lebanese-American professor of political science at California State University, Stanislaus. He is the author of the Historical Dictionary of Lebanon (1998), Bin Laden, Islam and America’s New War on Terrorism (2002), The Battle for Saudi Arabia (2004) and ran the popular The Angry Arab blog. He tweets as @asadabukhalil
Ajay Darshan Behera
Ajay Darshan Behera is Professor, Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.
Kyle Wilson
Kyle Wilson studied at the ANU, Moscow State and Leningrad State universities. He worked in DFAT from 1981 to 2004. His postings for DFAT included four years in Moscow 1988-92; and five in Beijing, 1995-99, including a year at the Beijing Institute for Economic Management. From 2000-2004 he worked on China and Mongolia in DFAT’s North Asia Division. From 2004 to 2013 he was the Senior Analyst for Russia and Central Asia at ONA and is now a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for European Studies at the ANU.
Etan Nechin
I am a writer, journalist, and editor, originally from Israel. My writing has appeared in The New York Times, Haaretz, Vice, Jacobin, Huffington Post, The Independent, Jewish Currents, Medium, Columbia Journal, and more.
Amalendu Misra
Amalendu Misra a professor of international politics at Lancaster University, UK, and the author of seven critically acclaimed monographs on conflict and peace. My primary research concerns interrogation of violence in the political process.
Yang Yao
Yang Yao is professor and dean of DAFI, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and visiting professor, Peking University.
Jamal Kanj
Jamal Kanj is the author of Children of Catastrophe: Journey from a Palestinian Refugee Camp to America, and other books. He writes frequently on Arab world issues for various national and international commentaries.
Tony Kwok
Tony Kwok is an adjunct professor of HKU Space and a council member of the Chinese Association of Hong Kong and Macao Studies. He is an international anti-corruption consultant and former deputy commissioner of the ICAC.
Purnendra Jain
Purnendra Jain is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Adelaide, Australia, where he served as Professor of Japanese Studies for twenty-five years. Jain holds a distinguished position as a scholar renowned for expertise in contemporary Japanese politics and foreign policy. Focusing on Japan-India, Japan-South Asia and Australia-Asia relations, along with regionalism, energy and foreign aid issues.
Robert Fantina
Robert Fantina is a Member of the Board of Directors of World BEYOND War and its Secretary. He is based in Canada. Bob is an activist and journalist, working for peace and social justice. He writes extensively about the oppression of the Palestinians by apartheid Israel. He is the author of several books, including ‘Empire, Racism and Genocide: A History of U.S. Foreign Policy’. His writing appears regularly on Counterpunch.org, MintPressNews and several other sites. Originally from the U.S., Mr. Fantina moved to Canada following the 2004 U.S. presidential election, and now resides in Kitchener, Ontario. Visit his web page at http://robertfantina.com/.
Rahul Mishra
Rahul Mishra is Associate Professor at the Centre for Indo-Pacific Studies, JNU, New Delhi and a Senior Research Fellow at the German-Southeast Asian Center of Excellence for Public Policy and Good Governance, Thammasat University, Thailand.
Harshit Prajapati
Harshit Prajapati is PhD Scholar at the Centre for Indo-Pacific Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.
John Woods
Monsignor John Woods is a priest of the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn, Parish Priest of Transfiguration Parish, North Woden and Episcopal Vicar for Catholic schools of the archdiocese. He is also chaplain to the Canberra Raiders Rugby League Club and was recently inducted as a Life Member.
Gregory Foster
Gregory D. Foster is a professor at the Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security & Resource Strategy, part of the National Defense University, where he previously has served as J. Carlton Ward Distinguished Professor and Director of Research, as well as the George C. Marshall Professor; head of the Strategic Human Capital Industry Study, the Environment Industry Study, and the China Regional Security Study. He is also chair of the NDU Faculty Advisory Council. A West Point graduate, Foster was an infantry company commander in the Vietnam War. He publishes regularly on a variety of national security-related subjects.
Bryan Horrigan
Professor Bryan Horrigan holds a doctorate in law from Oxford University under a Rhodes Scholarship. He is an academic, published author, legal and governmental adviser, and public speaker. He has academic expertise, practical experience and an international reputation in public and corporate law and governance. His book Corporate Social Responsibility in the 21st Century was published internationally in 2010.
Kevin Young
Kevin Young teaches history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His most recent book is Abolishing Fossil Fuels: Lessons from Movements That Won.
Farhan Rehman
Farhan Rehman is a business leader and a passionate Australian lawyer. Farhan is the founding member and Principal at the Rehman Sheriff Group. The Rehman Sheriff Group (RSG) is one of Australia’s leading immigration law firms which has a focus on corporate immigration and assisting businesses to bring the right skills to Australia. RSG pioneered the idea of “lawyers who find skills in the best interest for its clients”. Farhan is currently a Director at ARR/Rehman Holdings which is a group that invests in hospitality, technology and aviation and brand names under this group include Habibi Chicken, Prolific and Riv Air. Farhan is currently the Director of Operations at the Salaam Institute and an executive director at the Komigen Inc which is an organisation that supports youth in Regional New South Wales (Riverina). Farhan holds a combined Bachelor of Law and Arts from Victoria University and was recognised by Victoria University as an alumni who is a “law unto himself”. As the Principal of RSG, Farhan supports Victoria University students through internships/clerkships at the firm.www.rsglaw.com.au
Tasneem Chopra
As CEO of The Culture Lens, Tasneem Chopra OAM highlights issues of equity and belonging through an intersectional lens within leadership of government, corporate, arts and community sectors.She assists clients communicate, work with and lead across different cultures for greater impact, dissecting the breadth of inclusion. Tasneem has developed diversity, equity and inclusion policies, managed projects, curated exhibitions, facilitated leadership program and engagement strategies for a breadth of clients for two decades.For her efforts she was appointed the inaugural Ambassador for Women of Colour, Australia was an Anti-Racism Champion for the Australian Human Rights Commission and awarded an OAM.
Christopher Robertson
I’m a British citizen who has worked in China but currently resident in Thailand. Over the years I’ve come to understand that all is not what it seems and I’ve noticed that the way China is portrayed in the West is wrong
Charles Glass
Charles Glass is a writer, journalist and broadcaster, who has written on conflict in the Middle East, Africa and Europe for the past 50 years. He was ABC News Chief Middle East Correspondent from 1983 to 1993 and has covered wars in Lebanon, Syria, Eritrea, Rhodesia, Somalia, Iraq, East Timor and Bosnia-Herzegovina. His many books have dealt with the First and Second World Wars as well as contemporary Middle East history.
Richard Heinberg
Richard Heinberg is a senior fellow at the Post Carbon Institute and the author of fourteen books, including his most recent: “Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival” (2021). Previous books include: “Our Renewable Future: Laying the Path for One Hundred Percent Clean Energy” (2016), “Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels” (2015), and “Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines” (2010).
Tim Deere-Jones
Tim Deere-Jones has a B.Sc. degree in Maritime Studies and has operated a Marine Pollution Research Consultancy since the 1980s focusing on the behaviour and fate of marine anthropogenic radioactivity, causes/outcomes of hazardous cargos and shipping accidents, marine hydrocarbon, radioactivity and chemical spills.
Chris Helms
Chris is a Registered Nurse and endorsed Nurse Practitioner with extensive experience across the regulatory, educational, and clinical spheres of the health sector. His private practice is based in Canberra, where he provides primary healthcare and outreach services to marginalised and/or vulnerable populations across the ACT and NSW.
Siwage Dharma Negara
Siwage Dharma Negara is Senior Fellow and Co-Coordinator of the Indonesia Studies Programme at the ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore.
Ruwaida Kamal Amer
Ruwaida Kamal Amer is a science teacher from Khan Younis in Gaza who since the outbreak of the present conflict has written widely about its devastating effects on people of all ages. She has powerfully described the experiences of women and children, the terror evoked by constant Israeli bombardments and, as here, the emptiness and despair associated with starvation. Despite the bleakness of the events to which she bears witness her commitment to her people and culture, to the education of children, to overcoming violence and hunger, offer poignant sources of hope in the midst of the darkness.
James A. Fok
James A. Fok is a veteran financial and strategic adviser to corporations and governments, who served as a senior executive at Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing during a decade of rapid internationalisation in China’s capital markets. He is the author of the book Financial Cold War.
Kevin Ting-Chen Sun
Kevin Ting-Chen Sun is a senior legislative policy advisor at Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan. He currently works with legislator Ching-hui Chen and previously advised former Foreign Affairs and National Defence Committee Chair Charles I-hsin Chen. He is also a practising attorney and a non-resident research fellow at the Institute for Taiwan-America Studies in Washington, DC.
Anoma Pieris
Anoma Pieris is Professor of Architecture and Associate Dean Research at the Melbourne School of Design. Her recent books include the multi-authored Immigrant Industry: Building Postwar Australia (Berghahn 2024); with Lynne Horiuchi, The Architecture of Confinement: incarceration camps of the Pacific War (Cambridge University Press 2022); and the anthology: Architecture on the Borderline: Boundary Politics and Built Space (Architext 2019). In 2022, she was guest curator for the Museum of Modern Art, New York exhibition The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonisation in South Asia 1947-1985. Anoma’s recent work is on war cemeteries across the Indo Pacific region.
Zhou Bo
Senior Colonel Zhou Bo (ret) is a senior fellow of the Centre for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University and a China Forum expert. He was director of Centre for Security Cooperation of the Office for International Military Cooperation of the Ministry of National Defence of China.
Chheng Kimlong
Dr Kimlong is President of the Asian Vision Institute (AVI) in Phnom Penh. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Australian National University, a Master in Economics from Kobe University, and a Master in Business Administration from Preston University. He was economic-commercial specialist for the United States Embassy in Phnom Penh from 2008 to 2012. Before that, he was research consultant at the Cambodia Development Resource Institute (CDRI), research assistant at the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and socio-economic specialist for aid-funded rural community-development projects.