Andrew Bacevich
Andrew Bacevich, a _TomDispatch_ regular, is chairman and co-founder of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. His new Dispatch book, _On Shedding an Obsolete Past: Bidding Farewell to the American Century_, has just been published_._ He is the author of America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History, which has just been published by Random House_._
Mark Dodgson
Mark Dodgson is Emeritus Professor at the University of Queensland, Executive-in-Residence at the University of Oxford and Visiting Professor at Imperial College London.
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.
David Salter
David Salter has been a journalist, broadcaster and author for more than 50 years. He was a member of the team that founded “This Day Tonight”, Australia’s first nightly current affairs program. He worked in the Canberra gallery, at the BBC, and for the Nine and Seven networks. Salter was Executive Producer of “Media Watch” for 200 episodes with Stuart Littlemore QC.
Phil Miller
Phil Miller is Declassified UK’s chief reporter. He is the author of Keenie Meenie: The British Mercenaries Who Got Away With War Crimes. Follow him on Twitter at @pmillerinfo
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.
Sybil Fares
Sybil Fares is a specialist and advisor in Middle East policy and sustainable development at SDSN
Shojaa al-Safadi
Shojaa al-Safadi is a Palestinian writer and poet, a member of the Palestinian Writers Union, and a founder and director of the Friendship Cultural Forum from 2004 to 2014.
Brenda Fitzpatrick
With a PhD in global Politics Brenda Fitzpatrick writes to bring attention to the plight of victims of sexual violenc e in war and conflict. She works with humanitarian and UN agencies and has had experience in refugee camps and war zones. Her book, ‘Tactical Rape in War and Conflict ’ was deemed ground breaking and her novel, ‘Gwennie’s Girl ’ visceral and engaging’.
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
Edith Lin
Edith joined the Post as a reporter in 2022 and covers Hong Kong’s housing, land and development. Prior to joining the Post, she was a reporter at Radio Television Hong Kong.
Phillip Adams
Phillip Adams is a prolific and sometimes controversial broadcaster, writer and film-maker. As presenter of Late Night Live, he has interviewed thousands of the world’s most influential politicians, historians, archaeologists, novelists, theologians, economists, philosophers and sundry conversationalists. ‘It’s a privilege to present Late Night Live,’ he says. ‘No radio program, anywhere on earth, casts a wider net.’ Phillip’s laid-back approach has become a trade-mark for Late Night Live, as has his humour, curiosity, his ability to flesh out rare insights from his guests, and his amazing store of anecdotal knowledge.
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.
Karl Friedhoff
Karl Friedhoff is the Marshall M Bouton Fellow for Asia Studies at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
Ibrahim Quraishi
Ibrahim Quraishi is a conceptual artist and writer dividing his time between Berlin and Amsterdam. His work has been exhibited extensively across Europe, South/East Asia and the Middle East. He is a regular cultural-political contributor to the German newspaper TAZ : die tageszeitung. His first historical novel, “being everywhere, being no where” (part I of a trilogy), is forthcoming from Seven Stories Press, NY.<
Anna Sande
Anna Sande is a Victorian painter, photographer, curator and writer. With qualifications in art history and political science from the University of Melbourne.
Steve Hanley
Steve Hanley writes about the interface between technology and sustainability from his home in Florida or anywhere else The Force may lead him. He is proud to be “woke” and doesn’t really give a damn why the glass broke. He believes passionately in what Socrates said 3000 years ago: “The secret to change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.” You can follow him on Substack and LinkedIn but not on Fakebook or any social media platforms controlled by narcissistic yahoos.
Gagan Hitkari
Gagan Hitkari is a PhD candidate at the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi, India. He is also a non-resident James A. Kelly Korea fellow at Pacific Forum, Hawaii, US.
Judith Mackay
Dr Judith Mackay is the Director of the Asian Consultancy on Tobacco Control, based in Hong Kong.
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.
Waleed Aly
Waleed Aly is a broadcaster, author and academic. He is a lecturer in politics at Monash University and co-host of Channel Ten’s The Project.
John V. Whitbeck
John V. Whitbeck is an international lawyer and an energetic commentator, based in Paris. He has published widely on Middle Eastern affairs since the late-1980s, his work appearing in many Western, Arab, and Israeli publications. As an attorney he has advised the Palestinians on numerous occasions. A collection of his essays, The World According to Whitbeck (Five and Ten Press), appeared in 2005.
Amandine Denis-Ryan
Amandine Denis-Ryan is chief executive of IEEFA Australia. Joshua Runciman is a lead analyst, Australian Gas, with IEEFA
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.
Anne O’Brien
Anne O’Brien is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of New South Wales. She has written widely on the history of poverty, welfare, gender, religion and Indigenous rights. She is currently completing a history of homelessness and people experiencing homelessness in Australia, 1900 to the present.