John Fitz
Emeritus Professor John Fitz is an Australian living in the UK since 1970. He was formerly a Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University.
Ray Champ
Ray Champ has worked in the Public Service for five years and is studying a bachelor of economics at Macquarie University.
Roger Gurr
Roger Gurr Associate Professor Gurr, MB BS DPM MRC Psych, FRANZCP is the Clinical Director of headspace Early Psychosis in Western Sydney. He also holds a Conjoint Appointment in Psychiatry, Western Sydney University Faculty of Medicine and is the Board Chair for the NSW Service for the Treatment & Rehabilitation of Torture & Trauma Survivors (STARTTS). He was awarded the NSW Government Human Rights Medal in 2021. He is presenting at the NDIS and Mental Health Conference on Tuesday 21 January at the ICC in Sydney.
Wendy Hunt
Wendy Hunt is the Academic Chair of Food Science and Nutrition at Murdoch University. She has over 25 years of experience in the field of Food Science, having roles in management, research, teaching, and services to the food industry. Her research is in food and human health with particular interest in seafood, starch, grains, fibre and satiety.
Graham Pickering
Graham Pickering is a long-term resident of Taiwan. He is an educator and author. He is fluent in Chinese and getting there in Taiwanese. His interests include Education, Taiwan, China and Cross-Strait Relations.
Flavia Bellieni Zimmermann
Dr Flavia Bellieni Zimmermann is a Lecturer at the University of Western Australia, School of Social Sciences. She is a Brazilian political analyst and has written extensively in this field. Her research interests include Brazilian politics, society, and policy, Latin American politics, populism and nationalism, women in the global south, gender, and politics and religion.
Robert Freeman
Robert Freeman is founder and executive director of The Global Uplift Project which builds small-scale infrastructure projects in the developing world to improve humanity’s capacity for self-development. Robert taught economics and history at Los Altos High School where he also coached the Speech and Debate team, including producing a national champion in 2006. He has traveled extensively in both the developed and developing world. He is the author of The Best One Hour History series which includes World War I (2013), The InterWar Years (2014), The Vietnam War (2013), and other titles.
M.K. Bhadrakumar
Michael Edesess is an adjunct associate professor of environment and sustainability at HKUST and author of the book The Big Investment Lie.
David Dodwell
David Dodwell is CEO of the trade policy and international relations consultancy Strategic Access, focused on developments and challenges facing the Asia-Pacific over the past four decades**.**
David Dodwell is the executive director of the Hong Kong-APEC Trade Policy Study Group, a trade policy think tank.
Robert Delaney
Robert Delaney is the Post’s North America bureau chief. He spent 11 years in China as a language student and correspondent for Dow Jones Newswires and Bloomberg, and continued covering the country as a correspondent and an academic after leaving. His debut novel, The Wounded Muse, draws on actual events that played out in Beijing while he lived there.
Les MacDonald
Les MacDonald was a CEO for more than 40 years. Prior to this, he was Deputy Secretary NSW Health, CEO of the Maritime Services Board and Assistant Secretary of the Federal Departments of the Media and Posts and Telecommunications. Subsequently he was previously Executive Director Uniting Care Ageing NSW. Les has an extensive leadership history including board positions in public hospitals, health insurance, the maritime industry, public transport, cancer medicine and the Council for the Arts amongst others.
Ryan Manuel
Dr Ryan Manuel Bilby is Managing Director of Bilby, a HK-based company that uses AI to analyse policy.
Justin Catanoso
Justin Catanoso is a regular contributor to Mongabay and a professor of journalism at Wake Forest University in the United States.
Roger McKenzie
Roger McKenzie is a reporter for the Morning Star. He is the general secretary of Liberation, one of the oldest UK human rights organisations.
Joh-Janusz Ebel
John-Janusz Ebel is the son of Holocaust survivors. Soon after coming to Australia from Poland, Ebel chose to be a draft resister and activist against the Vietnam War; he also participated in Aboriginal struggles against continued oppression and genocide of Aboriginal people. Ebel has practised as a radical existentialist psychotherapist.
John-Janusz Ebel
John-Janusz Ebel is the son of Holocaust survivors. Soon after coming to Australia from Poland, Ebel chose to be a draft resister and activist against the Vietnam War; he also participated in Aboriginal struggles against continued oppression and genocide of Aboriginal people. Ebel has practised as a radical existentialist psychotherapist.
Yose Rizal Damuri
Yose Rizal Damuri is Executive Director of the Centre for Strategic and Economic Studies (CSIS) Indonesia.
Quinta Jurecic
Quinta Jurecic is a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a senior editor at Lawfare. She previously served as Lawfare’s managing editor and as an editorial writer for the Washington Post.
Alan MacLeod
Alan MacLeod is Senior Staff Writer for MintPress News. He completed his PhD in 2017 and has since authored two acclaimed books: Bad News From Venezuela: Twenty Years of Fake News and Misreporting and Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent, as well as a number of academic articles. He has also contributed to FAIR.org, The Guardian, Salon, The Grayzone, Jacobin Magazine, and Common Dreams. Follow Alan on Twitter for more of his work and commentary: @AlanRMacLeod.
Ian Anderson
Professor Ian Anderson is Palawa & Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic) for the University of Tasmania.
Joseph Gerson
Joseph Gerson is President of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security, Co-founder of the Committee for a SANE U.S. China Policy and Vice President of the International Peace Bureau. His books include Empire and the Bomb, and With Hiroshima Eyes.
Lincoln Booth
Lincoln Booth has a Masters Degree in International Commercial Law and a Master of Arts (Laws) degree. He is a legal academic with research interests including international commercial law and constitutional law. He is also a candidate in the Executive MBA programme, Judge Business School, Cambridge University.
Ricardo Vaz
Ricardo Vaz grew up in Mozambique. With very strong political leanings from an early age, and a clear anti-imperialist outlook, he always felt a very strong affinity towards the Bolivarian Revolution and Chavismo, and has closely followed political developments in Venezuela. After living in different countries and continents, he moved to Venezuela in 2019.
Sarah Kendall
Sarah Kendall is a PhD candidate and Sessional Academic at the University of Queensland. She is an interdisciplinary scholar with expertise in criminal law and procedure, evidence law, and national security. Currently, she is researching the nature, effectiveness and appropriateness of measures used to prevent emerging (often cyber) national security threats, including espionage, sabotage and foreign interference. She is also researching domestic violence law and trials, with a focus on the treatment of vulnerable victim-witnesses.
Douglas Newton
Douglas Newton is a retired academic and historian. His latest book is Private Ryan and the Lost Peace: A Defiant Soldier and the Struggle Against the Great War (Sydney: Longueville Media, 2021).
Peter Tregear
Peter Tregear is an academic, performer, and arts commentator. He is a Principal Fellow of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and an Adjunct Professor of the University of Adelaide and was Professor and Head of the School of Music at the Australian National University from 2012–2015.
Rod Taylor
Rod Taylor Co-editor of Sustainability and the New Economics. And radio broadcaster and science columnist with ACM newspapers and author of Ten Journeys on a Fragile Planet (Odyssey, 2020).
Robert Clancy
I am a Clinical Immunologist with a research focus on mucosal immunology and host-parasite relationships at mucosal surfaces, with over 300 publications and the award of a DSc and AM for this work. I developed clinical services in Immunology at MacMaster University, RPAH Sydney, and the Hunter region. With two others I developed the specialty of Clinical Immunology in Australia, serving as Chief Examiner for 5 years. My research defined the immunology of airway protection, communication with the gut, the idea of airway resilience, and strategic development of products optimising airway protection, I was Foundation Professor of Pathology in the Newcastle Medical School. Current practise focusses on vaccine-damaged subjects.
Ali Reza Yunespour
Ali Reza works as an academic at the University of Melbourne. He holds a PhD from UNSW Canberra, where his thesis examined how market economy impacted admission practices in Afghanistan’s higher education. His current research interests are on education in fragile contexts and refugee education in Australia. Ali Reza has extensive experience in community development in conflict-affected areas. Since 2007, through his volunteer work with Indigo Foundation Australia, he has been supporting around 11,000 students across 60 rural schools and mosques in Afghanistan.
Mary Garden
Mary Garden is a freelance journalist with a PhD in Journalism (USC). Her writing has appeared in a range of publications, including Australian Financial Review, The Guardian, Meanjin and The Guardian. She has written extensively about “The Palmist and the Catwoman case, where Andrew Fitzherbert became the first person in Australia to be convicted on the basis of DNA evidence alone. She is an award-winning author of four books: The Serpent Rising, Coming Together, Sundowner of the Skies, and My Father’s Suitcase, a memoir on her sister, which has won multiple awards including the National Indie Excellence Award for autobiography.
A J Brown
A J Brown is professor of public policy and law, and program leader, integrity, leadership and public trust in the Centre for Governance & Public Policy, Griffith University. He is also a former senior investigator for the Commonwealth Ombudsman, Associate to Justice Tony Fitzgerald AC QC, ministerial advisor in the first Beattie Government, and current member of the board of Transparency International Australia: http://www.transparency.org.au
Michael Sfard
Michael Sfard is an Israeli human rights lawyer and the author of “The Wall and the Gate: Israel, Palestine and the Legal Battle for Human Rights” (Metropolitan Books). He also wrote the Yesh Din report “The Israeli Occupation of the West Bank and the Crime of Apartheid”
Wei Yu
Wei Yu works at CODEPINK as the China Is Not Our Enemy campaign coordinator. She was born in Tianjin, China and has lived in the US since her high school years. Prior to joining CODEPINK, Wei was a student researcher on neocolonialism and has worked with several nonprofit organisations serving women, racial minorities, and other progressive causes.
Esther Linder
Esther Linder is an Australian photojournalist covering social affairs, gender issues, food security and more. Her work has appeared in The Saturday Paper, The Monthly and The Age. She tweets and grams @estherlinder_.
Hena Prince
Hena Prince is a Doctoral Candidate and policing researcher at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland.