Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat
Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat is a researcher at the Center of Economic and Law Studies, Jakarta. His research focuses on China-Indonesia-Middle East relations.
Rosemary Sheehan
Professor Rosemary Sheehan was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2014 for her significant contribution to child welfare and the law. In 2021 She was elected as a Fellow to the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia in recognition of her research prominence. She is a Member of the Australian Research Council’s College of Experts.
Ivan Lidarev
Ivan Lidarev is an expert on Asian security and international relations, specialising in China–India relations. He was recently the Mladena and Dianko Sotirov Visiting Fellow at LSE IDEAS.
Joshua Frank
Joshua Frank is the managing editor of CounterPunch. He is the author of the new book, Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America, published by Haymarket Books. He can be reached at joshua@counterpunch.org. You can troll him on Twitter @joshua__frank.
Robert Cribb
Robert Cribb is Emeritus Professor of Asian History at the Australian National University. He has written widely on Indonesian history and the history of mass atrocity. He is currently researching Japanese war crimes in Southeast Asia during the Second World War.
Ren Yan
Ren Yan is a Beijing-based current affairs commentator. She writes on a wide range of topics on China, international politics and cross-culture communications.
Belinda Bardsley
Belinda Bardsley is an MS Specialist Nurse with 30 years’ experience in clinical research and Manager of the Neuro-Immunology Clinical Research, Education and Support Service (N-CRESS) at Austin Health, Melbourne. She is immediate-past President of MS Nurses Australasia, an author of the MS Nurse Care in Australia report, past President of the MS Health Professionals Network, and an Honorary Research Associate at the Florey Neurosciences Institute. Belinda has a keen interest in service delivery improvement in clinical trials. She is also passionate about the need for equitable access to MS Nurses for all people with MS.
Al Gore
Al Gore former Vice President Al Gore. Chair and co-founder of Generation Investment Management, @ClimateReality founder & co-founder @ClimateTRACE
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Clinton Fernandes
Clinton Fernandes is a professor at the University of New South Wales. He is a member of the Future Operations Research Group at UNSW.
Ken Heydon
Ken Heydon is a former Australian government and OECD official, and Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics. His latest book is The Trade Weapon (Financial Times Best Books on Economics, 2023).
Beth Doherty
Beth Doherty is a journalist, author, teacher and musician living in Canberra. She is the Diocesan Director for Caritas Australia in the Archdiocese of Canberra Goulburn and author of the 2020 book “All the beautiful things: finding truth, beauty and goodness in a fractured church”.
Jiao Wang
Dr Jiao Wang is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Sussex Business School. Her research spans monetary policy, macro-prudential policy, macroeconomics and the Chinese economy. She has published in journals including the Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of International Economics and Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. Prior to joining Sussex, she worked at the University of Melbourne (2016–2024) and holds a PhD from The Australian National University and two bachelor’s degrees (Economics and Physics) from Peking University.
Leia Greenslade
Dr. Leia Greenslade is a Jewish Australian academic at Griffith University and sits on the Advisory Board for the Jewish Council of Australia. Leia is a fervent advocate for diverse identities, striving for equitable representation and rights. Leia has a background as a social worker and over 30 years’ experience as a committed activist for the promotion of social justice.
William Zheng
Senior Correspondent, China William Zheng is a veteran journalist who has served and led major Hong Kong and Singaporean media organisations in his 20-year career, covering greater China. He is now a senior correspondent on the China desk at the Post.
Helen McCue
Dr Helen McCue AM is a former United Nations consultant, working in the Middle East with refugees and displaced. Dr McCue has been a strong advocate for Palestinian human rights including the rights of Palestinian refugees for over 40 years. She is co-founder of Union Aid Abroad APHEDA and co-founder of Rural Australia for Refugees (RAR). Dr McCue is the 2024 recipient of the Jerusalem Peace Prize.
Jane Caro
Jane Caro is an author, columnist, broadcaster, advertising writer, documentary maker and social commentator. She has published ten books, including a memoir, Plain-Speaking Jane, as well as Just a Girl and Just a Queen, the first two novels in the Elizabeth Tudor trilogy. Just Flesh & Blood is the third and final book in the series. Jane appears frequently on Q&A, The Drum, Sunrise and Weekend Sunrise. She has created and presented three documentary series for the ABC’s Compass, with another in production. A frequent ad hoc columnist, she writes regular columns for Sunday Life and Leadership Matters. Jane divides her time between Sydney and a cattle property in the Upper Hunter. She is married, with two daughters, a grandson and a granddaughter. In 2018, Jane won the Walkley Award – Walkley Foundation’s Women’s Leadership in Media Award for a Non-Fiction Book Editing for her bestseller, Unbreakable: Women Share Stories of Resilience and Hope.
Jessica Morrison
Jessica is the Quakers Australia peaceworker. She was formerly the Executive Officer of the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network.
Prue Licht
Prue Licht a retired Social Worker, I used to work with children and Families. Since I retired i have been an active member of Grandmothers for Refugees, currently a coordinator of a local group. I am also actively involved in the Palestinian struggle for human and land rights. I visited Palestine in July 2023, staying in East Jerusalem and the Old City and visiting Ramallah, Bethlehem, Hebron and other areas of the West Bank. My interests include reading, music, cinema, politics, art, my garden and life in general. I spend time with family and friends and am also in the local U3A.
Yan Islam
Yan Islam is an Adjunct Professor at the Griffith Asia Institute and former Branch Chief, International Labour Office, Geneva. He writes in a strictly personal capacity.
Lam Ka Sing
Lam Ka Sing joined SCMP as a journalist at the South China Morning Post (SCMP) and has won numerous awards. These include Business Reporter of the Year and Best Property Market News Reporting at the 7th Business Journalism Awards of The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, Excellence in Business Reporting at The Sopa 2020 Awards for Editorial Excellence as well as Merit Award at The 21st Consumer Rights Reporting Awards from the Consumer Council. He has a Master of Science degree in real estate from the University of Hong Kong and a bachelor’s degree in international journalism from Hong Kong Baptist University. He is a student member in the general practice division of The Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors.
Seymour Hersh
Seymour Hersh is an American investigative journalist and political writer. He gained recognition in 1969 for exposing the My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.
Rebecca Sta Maria
Rebecca Sta Maria is former Executive Director of the APEC Secretariat, Singapore.
Virginia Lee
Virginia Lee is a solicitor, a Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area lawyer, and a China-appointed attesting officer.
Margaret Cassar
Margaret Cassar Executive Member of the Australian Friends of Palestine Association Convenor of Adelaide BDS movement
James Ricketson
Filmmaker/Journalist with 30 years of experience in Cambodia, including 15 months in a maximum security prison on espionage charges.
Jane Cai
Bureau Chief, Beijing Jane Cai, CFA, is the Beijing Bureau Chief of the Post. She has been covering China’s economic, financial, business and political news since the early 2000s.
Derek Wilding
Co-Director, Centre for Media Transition, University of Technology Sydney I have a law degree from UQ and a PhD in media studies from QUT. Previous positions include Executive Director of the Australian Press Council, Manager at the Australian Communications and Media Authority, and Director of the Communications Law Centre at UNSW.
Bill Hayton
Bill Hayton is an Associate Fellow in the Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House, United Kingdom. This is an adapted excerpt of ISEAS Perspective 2025/79 published on October 23. The paper and its references can be accessed at this link.
Hani Qarmoot
Hani Qarmoot is a journalist and storyteller from Gaza, focusing on resilience, dignity, and life under siege.
Editorial Board, ANU Canberra
The EAF Editorial Board is located in the Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University.
REN Ke
Ren Ke is a senior journalist with Xinhua News Agency. Before returning to China in September 2023, Ren worked in Europe for more than six years. From 2017 to 2021, he was a Xinhua correspondent in Berlin, focusing on Germany’s domestic politics and foreign policies. From 2021 to 2023, Ren was deputy editor-in-chief of Xinhua’s Europe Regional Bureau in Brussels and correspondent of EU institutions. In February 2022, Ren was one of the first Chinese correspondents who went to Ukraine to report the Russia-Ukraine War.
Zohran Mamdani
Zorhan K. Mamdani is a Democratic member of the New York State Assembly and on Tuesday, November 4, 2025, was elected mayor of New York City.