Diana Buttu
Diana Buttu is a lawyer who previously served as a legal advisor to the Palestinian negotiating team and was part of the team that assisted in the successful litigation of the Wall before the International Court of Justice. She frequently comments on Palestine for international news media outlets such as CNN and BBC; is a political analyst for Al Jazeera International and is a regular contributor to The Middle East magazine. She maintains a law practice in Palestine, focusing on international human rights law.
Maria O'Sullivan
Associate Professor of Law, Member of Deakin Cyber and the Centre for Law as Protection, Deakin University, Deakin University
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.
Inès Abdel Razek
Inès Abdel Razek is the executive director of the Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy (PIPD) and its digital platform Rabet, an independent Palestinian organisation focusing on international mobilisation and digital campaigning for Justice, Freedom and Equality. From 2019 to 2022, Inès was the advocacy director of the PIPD, helping to develop the political networks and international advocacy pillar of the organisation. Prior to joining the PIPD, Inès held policy advisor positions in the Union for the Mediterranean in Barcelona, the UN Environment Programme in Nairobi and the Palestinian Prime Minister’s Office in Ramallah, where she advised executive leadership on international aid for development policies. Inès is also a board member of the social enterprise BuildPalestine, advisory board member of Palestine DeepDive and policy member at Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network. She holds a Master’s degree in public affairs from Sciences-Po, Paris. Twitter: @InesAbdelrazek
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.
DAWN
We are a dedicated group of analysts, researchers, lawyers, and activists who aim to fulfil Jamal Kashoggi’s vision of helping to promote democracy and human rights in the Middle East and North Africa.
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.
Sam Hardwick
Samuel Hardwick is a PhD scholar at the Arndt-Corden Department of Economics in the Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University.
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.
Jonathan Holmes
Jonathan Holmes is a former executive producer of The ABC’s current affairs programs Four Corners, Foreign Correspondent and The 7.30 Report, and a former presenter of Media Watch. He is a board director of ABC Alumni Ltd.
Yang Yao
Yang Yao is professor and dean of DAFI, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and visiting professor, Peking University.
Alexander Howard
Alexander Howard Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney
Xiaoying Qi
Associate Professor Xiaoying Qi has expertise in business and economic relations, social capital and social networks, and contemporary China. Her most recent book, Entrepreneurs in Contemporary China: Wealth, Connections, and Crisis, is published by Cambridge University Press. A previous book, Remaking Families in Contemporary China (Oxford University Press, 2021) won the Stephen Crook Memorial Prize of the Australian Sociological Association. An earlier book, Globalised Knowledge Flows and Chinese Social Theory (London & New York: Routledge, 2014), was awarded The Raewyn Connell Prize Special Commendation of The Australian Sociological Association.
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.
Niusha Shafiabady
Associate Professor Niusha Shafiabady is an electrical engineer and internationally recognised expert in battery systems, hybrid energy storage, and computational intelligence. She has held various academic leadership positions for the past 15 years. In addition, she has been involved in the Computational Intelligence industry for 23 years as project consultant/manager, associate head of school, dean, CEO, chief scientific advisor and ethics committee and academic board member. She has held leadership positions, both in academia and industry.
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.
Shaymaa Elkadi
Dr Shaymaa Elkadi is a values-driven governance and strategy leader with over 15 years’ executive and board experience across the justice, mental health, and community services sectors. Shaymaa is currently a Non-Executive Director at Neami National, Women’s Health Victoria, and VACRO, where she also chairs the Strategy and Planning Committee. She serves on the Appeals Committee of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and previously held executive roles with Corrections Victoria, Forensicare, and across public and not-for-profit sectors. Shaymaa is the founder of Ruqi Consulting, a strategy and leadership consultancy specialising in reflective governance, cultural humility, and trauma-informed leadership. Her work is grounded in systems thinking, policy expertise, and a deep commitment to justice, equity, and human rights.
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.
Rachel Matthews
Dr Rachel Matthews is a Melbourne author and lecturer whose work blends tragicomedy with sharp social commentary. Her debut Vinyl Inside was highly commended in the Vogel Awards, her PhD novel Siren examined sexual violence in football, and Never Look Desperate was named one of 2023’s ‘Best New Australian Fiction’ by The Australian and The Guardian. She has been published in The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, Canberra Times and Women’s Agenda and runs Readers Are Writers workshops across Australia and internationally.
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/.
Sophia Duckor-Jones
Sophia Duckor-Jones Media and communications officer refugee Council of Australia
Journalist, communications / media expert, refugee rights advocate. I’m also neurodiverse, and advocate for greater awareness and understanding around neurodiversity in the workplace.
Ned Dobos
Ned Dobos is an Associate Professor in International and Political studies at UNSW Canberra, located at the Australian Defence Force Academy. He is the author of two books– Ethics, Security, and the War Machine: the True Cost of the Military (Oxford University Press), and Insurrection and Intervention (Cambridge University Press)–and is currently President the International Society for Military Ethics, Asia-Pacific chapter. He has held visiting appointments at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at Oxford, the MacMillan Centre for International Studies at Yale, the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford, and the philosophy department at Georgetown University.
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.
Nick Estes
Nick Estes is a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe. He is a journalist, historian and co-host of the Red Nation Podcast. He is the author of Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance (Verso, 2019).
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.
Kelvin Quartermaine
Kelvin Quartermaine is a Wardandi man, living on Wardandi Boodja. Kelvin has lived experience of many of his family members across the generations being caught up in the criminal justice system. His life’s mission is to overcome its tragic suicidal impacts.