Robert M. Schaible
Robert M. Schaible is Professor Emeritus in the Arts & Humanities Department at the University of Southern Maine.
Doug Bandow
Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, specializing in foreign policy and civil liberties. He worked as special assistant to President Ronald Reagan and editor of the political magazine Inquiry. He writes regularly for leading publications such as Fortune magazine, National Interest, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Times.
Annette Alexander-Fliegner
Annette Alexander-Fliegner is a retired Child Adolescent and Family psychotherapist.
Peter Doherty
Peter Charles Doherty AC FRS FAA FMedSci is an Australian immunologist and Nobel laureate. He received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1995, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with Rolf M. Zinkernagel in 1996 and was named Australian of the Year in 1997.
Edward Hunt
Edward Hunt writes about war and empire. He has a PhD in American Studies from the College of William & Mary.
Dale Webster
Dale Webster received a grant from the Public Fund for Journalism to investigate regional bank closures in Australia and for this work was named Freelance Journalist of the Year by the Walkley Foundation in 2022. These stories were also recognised by the Melbourne Press Club with a Quill Award. Her data was the trigger for the 2023-24 Senate inquiry looking at the issue and her reporting and research was referenced 17 times in the final report.
Kambale Musavuli
Kambale Musavuli, a native of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is a leading political and cultural Congolese voice. Based in Accra, Ghana, he is a policy analyst with the Center for Research on the Congo-Kinshasa.
Matthew Ehret
Matthew Ehret is a journalist, Senior Fellow at the American University of Moscow, and BRI Expert for Tactical Talk. He is a regular author on several political/cultural websites including Los Angeles Review of Books: China Channel, Strategic Culture, and Oriental Review. He has also authored three books from the series the Untold History of Canada.
Pearls and Irritations guest Jian Zhang
Jian Zhang is an Associate Professor in International and Political Studies at the School of Humanities & Social Sciences, UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy, the University of New South Wales, Australia
RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service
RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service is an award-winning, multimedia source of independent news and informed debate, covering major stories and underreported topics, including women, minority rights, high-level corruption, and religious radicalism.
Jonathan Wilson Hartgrove
Rev. Jonathan Wilson Hartgrove is the author of Revolution of Values: Reclaiming Public Faith for the Common Good.
Mike Callanan
Michael Callanan is a retired teacher of Logic and History, with an interest in international relations and contemporary history.
Imran Khalid
Imran Khalid is an international affairs commentator and freelancer based in Karachi, Pakistan.
Marty Hirst
Marty Hirst is a founding member of Socialists in MEAA and a long-term socialist activist in Melbourne.
Michael D. Breen
Michael Breen, twenty years a Jesuit, then educational psychologist (Boston College) and researcher, (Ireland) student counsellor,(Bathurst and Wollongong Unis) organisational psychologist,(private practice, mostly in W.A.) Zen practitioner Dai Boku.
Monique Taylor
Monique Taylor is University Lecturer and Docent (the Finnish honorary title of Associate Professor) in World Politics at the University of Helsinki. She is currently co-coordinator of the Horizon Europe project The EU in the Volatile Indo-Pacific Region (2023–2025). Her recent research explores the internationalisation of the renminbi, central bank digital currencies, and the impact of Sino-Russian alignment across various strategic theatres. She holds a PhD in International Political Economy from the University of Queensland.
Jude Conway
Dr Jude Conway is a Novocastrian historian, who edited Step by Step: Women of East Timor, stories of Resistance and Survival (2010) and whose 2022 PhD thesis is on the Newcastle women’s movement. Jude was a fellow activist for the self determination of East Timor, who first met Vacy Vlazna in 1997 and remained friends since that time.
James A. Millward
James A. Millward is a professor of history at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, where he teaches Qing, Chinese, Central Asian and world history.
Dermot O’Gorman
Dermot O’Gorman is a global champion for a future-focused, purpose-driven mindset. His aim is to catalyse a regenerative revolution for nature, communities and climate. At this critical moment in time for our planet, Dermot is leading environmentalists, philanthropists, businesses and governments in envisioning a regenerative future. With over 23 years of experience as a CEO, Dermot has worked across Europe, China, the US, and the Pacific region. His expertise spans human development, environmentalism, social justice, philanthropy, public funding, private equity, and innovation.
Sophie Vorrath
Sophie is editor of One Step Off The Grid and deputy editor of its sister site, Renew Economy. She is the co-host of the Solar Insiders Podcast. Sophie has been writing about clean energy for more than a decade.
William J. Barber II
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II is president and senior lecturer of Repairers of the Breach, and co-chair of the the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. His books include: “The Third Reconstruction: How A Moral Movement is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear” (2016), “Revive Us Again: Vision and Action in Moral Organising” (2018) and “We Are Called to Be a Movement” (2020). Follow him on Twitter @RevDrBarber.
Coco Yixin Yin
Coco Yixin Yin, a master’s student at Nanjing University, is an intern at the Centre for China and Globalisation (CCG) contributing to its Pekingnology and https://www.eastisread.com/The East is Read newsletters.
Mike McIntire
Mike McIntire is an investigative reporter, author and editor. As a member of the investigations unit at The New York Times, he shared Pulitzer Prizes in 2022 for reporting on the hidden financial incentives behind police traffic stops, and in 2017 for reporting on covert Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election
Vivienne Porzsolt
Vivienne Porzsolt is a a secular Jew whose parents were refugees from the Nazis. She is a longtime activist for a range of social justice issues. She is spokesperson for Jews against the Occupation in Sydney and has been an advocate for justice and equality in Palestine/Israel for many years.
Robert Wood
Dr. Robert Wood has been a Benjamin Franklin Fellow at University of Pennsylvania and an Endeavour Research Fellow at Columbia University. The author of more than 300 articles and five books, Robert serves as a Director at Centre for Stories. He has a fortnightly interview on politics on community radio station RTR FM. Robert lives in Perth.
Jesse MacKinnon
Jesse MacKinnon is a high school history teacher running for Congress in California’s 10th District. He is challenging a sitting Democratic incumbent in the primary because of congressional Democrats’ unwillingness to meaningfully oppose the Trump administration.
Josephine Ma
Josephine Ma is China news editor and has covered China news for the Post for more than 20 years. As a correspondent in Beijing, she reported on everything from the 2003 Sars outbreak to the riots in Lhasa and the Beijing Olympics in 2008. She has been based in Hong Kong since 2009. She has a master’s degree in development studies from the London School of Economics and a bachelor’s degree in English language from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Nader Hashemi
Nader Hashemi is the director of the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and an associate professor of Middle East and Islamic politics at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is also a non-resident fellow at DAWN.
Amy La Porte
Amy is an Emmy-nominated writer, producer, and former CNN television reporter. She now leads a nonprofit organisation and has taught journalism and communications theory at several universities in Australia and the United States.
Ruby Walter
Ruby Walter is Assistant Associate Dean, Nursing, and Associate Professor, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University, Melbourne.
Samuel Cairnduff
Dr Samuel Cairnduff is a lecturer in media and communications in the School of Culture & Communication at the University of Melbourne, where he teaches across arts and cultural management, strategic communications, and public relations. His research examines cultural leadership, institutional ethics, and the role of cultural organisations in social change.
Mukhtar Amanbaiuly
Mukhtar Amanbaiuly Undergraduate Student at Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities Political Science and International Relations.
Asma Khalid
Asma Khalid is an independent researcher and former visiting fellow at the Stimson Center. Her areas of interest are nuclear politics and security issues of South Asia. Twitter: @AsmaKhalid_11
Elizabeth Finkel
Dr Elizabeth Finkel holds a PhD in biochemistry and was a research scientist at the University of California, before becoming an award winning Melbourne based writer. Her work has appeared in publications ranging from the US journal Science to ABC radio’s Science Show. She is the author of two books. Stem Cells: Controversy on the Frontiers of Science published in 2005, won a Queensland Premier’s Literary Award. The Genome Generation, published in 2012, was described by The Canberra Times as “science writing of the highest order.” The Weekend Australian described her as a “scientist with a journalist’s genes.”