Marco Carnelos
Marco Carnelos is a former Italian diplomat. He has been assigned to Somalia, Australia and the United Nations. He served in the foreign policy staff of three Italian prime ministers between 1995 and 2011. More recently he has been Middle East peace process coordinator special envoy for Syria for the Italian government and, until November 2017, Italy’s ambassador to Iraq.
Geraldine Doogue
Geraldine Frances Doogue AO is an Australian journalist and radio and television presenter.
Anne Delaney
Anne Delaney is the host of the SwitchedOn podcast and our Electrification Editor, She has had a successful career in journalism (the ABC and SBS), as a documentary film maker, and as an artist and sculptor.
Rainer Chlanda
Rainer Chlanda is an Alice Springs-born youth worker and winner of the Fitzgerald Youth Award – NT Human Rights Awards 2018. He currently works supporting young people with disabilities who are in contact with the Justice System.
Marina Yue Zhang
Dr. Marina Yue Zhang is an associate professor at the Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney (UTS: ACRI). Prior to this position, Marina worked for UNSW in Australia and Tsinghua University in China. Marina holds a bachelor’s degree in biological science from Peking University, an MBA and a PhD from Australian National University. Marina’s research interests cover China’s innovation policy and practice, latecomers’ catch-up, emerging and disruptive technologies, and network effects in digital transformation. She focuses on industrial such as semiconductors, biotechnology and biopharmaceuticals, and clean energy transition. She is the author of three books, including “Demystifying China’s Innovation Machine: Chaotic Order,” co-authored with Mark Dodgson and David Gann (Oxford University Press, 2022). In addition to academic publications in technology and innovation, Marina also writes analysis pieces on the intersection of technology and international relations in The National Interest, The Diplomat, The Conversation, The Interpreter by Lowy Institute, East Asia Forum, and comments on science and technology issues on BBC News, Bloomberg TV and other news outlets.
Zichen Wang
Zichen Wang Research Fellow & Director for Int’l Comms at Center for China and Globalisation (CCG), after 11 years at Xinhua News Agency. Founder & Editor: Pekingnology & The East is Read. Salzburg Global Fellow (2024-).
Christian Slattery
Christian Slattery is a Senior Campaigner at the Australian Democracy Network, focusing on how political donations and lobbying shape government decision-making and stall widely supported reforms. He has worked across national advocacy organisations, including in the conservation movement, and holds degrees in law and environmental studies.
Asa Winstanley
Asa Winstanley is an investigative journalist and Ali Abunimah is executive director of The Electronic Intifada.
John White
John White was raised in Mount Barker, Western Australia, in a traditional working family, and attended the local state school. He worked as a farmer, singer and radio broadcaster before training and working as a secondary school teacher. Later John retrained, and has worked and taught for the past forty years in psychotherapy, counselling, group dynamics, restorative justice, spiritual direction and clinical supervision. John is the author of three books – No Bars Hold (Xlibris, 2010), Uncommon Sense: Reclaiming Humanity (Coventry Press, Melbourne (2019) and Making Australia Fair: Challenging Privilege, Wealth and power (Coventry Press, 2021).
John is married to Jennifer. They have two adult children and four grandsons. John and Jennifer live in Toodyay, WA, and are active advocates for truth and justice.
Nicholas Mulder
Nicholas Mulder is Assistant Professor of History and Milstein Faculty Fellow at Cornell University. He is the author of ‘The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War’ (2022).
Rod Sims
Rod Sims is Enterprise Professor at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne, and Chair of The Superpower Institute.
Louise Katz
Louise Katz a retired academic who until recently taught critical thinking skills at Sydney University. I’ve published articles previously on Israel and Palestine, as well as other subjects, plus novels and short stories.
David Robie
David Robie is a journalist and editor of Asia Pacific Report and Café Pacific. He is former Professor of Communication Studies and Pacific Journalism, and founding Director of the Pacific Media Centre at Auckland University of Technology.
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.