Justine Bell-James
Justine Bell-James Professor, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland
Hannah Dickinson
Hannah Dickinson is the principal solicitor at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre in Melbourne.
Edward Hurcombe
Edward Hurcombe is a Senior Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow in the School of Media and Communication, RMIT. Edward researches how news and journalistic practice are transforming in relation to the technologies, economies, and user cultures of social media platforms. He is interested in both the challenges and possibilities emerging from these transformations: from tackling malicious actors on platforms, to locating new kinds of socially-positive digital journalism.
KJ Noh
K.J. Noh is a political analyst, educator and journalist focusing on the geopolitics and political economy of the Asia-Pacific. He has written for Dissident Voice, Black Agenda Report, Asia Times, Counterpunch, LA Progressive, MR Online, and People’s Daily. He also does frequent commentary and analysis on various news programs, including The Critical Hour, The Backstory, By Any Means Necessary and Breakthrough News. He recently co-authored a study on the military transmission of infectious diseases and its implications for Covid transmission.
Alan S Alexandroff
Alan Alexandroff is Director of the Global Summitry Project and Co-Chair, along with Brookings’ Colin Bradford, of the CWD, originally the China-West Dialogue and now the Changing World Dialogue. His weekly Substack posts can be found at Alan’s Newsletter.
Anthea Hancocks
Anthea is the CEO of the Scanlon Foundation Research Institute. The Institute is an independent, research organisation dedicated to social cohesion. They publish the Mapping Social Cohesion Report which is acknowledged as the foremost survey into social cohesion anywhere in the world. Anthea is also a PhD candidate with Monash University.
Adrian Lipscomb
Adrian Lipscomb OAM is a retired lawyer, travel-writer, academic, and political observer. During the 1980s he worked in policy areas with the Australian Department of Defence in Canberra and with the Joint Intelligence Organisation (JIO, later renamed as the Defence Intelligence Organisation [DIO]). In the mid-1990s he volunteered in the Solomon Islands, and was the co-ordinating author of the 1998 edition of the Lonely Planet Guide to PNG
Maria O'Sullivan
Associate Professor of Law, Member of Deakin Cyber and the Centre for Law as Protection, Deakin University, Deakin University
Grace McQuilten
Grace McQuilten is a published art historian, curator and artist with expertise in art and health, public art, social practice, social enterprise and community development. Grace’s research challenges and transforms conventional understandings of the relationship between margin and centre in relation to the cultural economy, contemporary art practice and art history. She has pioneered work on the field of art-based social enterprise in Australia, with particular expertise in migrant and refugee settlement.
Kate McGeorge
Kate McGeorge is a Melbourne based clinical psychologist and PhD researcher undertaking a socio-analytic study of the relationship between psychology, neoliberalism and societal mental health.
Jiang Jiang
Jiang Jiang (JJ) is a journalist with Xinhua News Agency based in Beijing. He has served as a Xinhua correspondent in Islamabad, Pakistan, from 2022 to 2023. Jiang Jiang is the founder of “Ginger River Review” (GRR), a personal newsletter that focuses on China’s policies. He also hosts “Inside the China Room”, a podcast about China. Jiang Jiang holds an MBA from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.
Bashar Lakkis
Bashar Lakkis is a Lebanese writer who writes in several Lebanese newspapers and is the author of the book ‘Critique of Islamic Knowledge’ (نقد اسلامية المعرفة).
Fiona McGaughey
Fiona McGaugheyis an Associate Professor of international human rights law at the University of Western Australia and a Fellow of the UWA Public Policy Institute.
Jepke Goudsmit
Jepke Goudsmit is a theatre maker. Since 1985 she has been co-director of Kinetic Energy Theatre Company. Since 2004 the company has focused on social justice and human rights issues through theatre-in-education.
Evelyn Goh
Evelyn Goh is the Shedden Professor of Strategic Policy Studies and Director of the Southeast Asia Institute at The Australian National University.
Richard Holden
Richard Holden is Scientia Professor of Economics at UNSW Business School, Director of the Manos Innovation Lab in Education, and President Emeritus of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. He is also a regular columnist for the Australian Financial Review. Previously he was on the faculty at the University of Chicago and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received an AM and a PhD in economics from Harvard University. Prior to graduate school he worked in private equity for several years, and he continues to advise in the corporate sector. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, and the Royal Society of New South Wales.
His most recent books are Money in the Twenty-First Century: Cheap, Mobile, Digital (University of California Press), and Australia’s Pandemic Exceptionalism: How we crushed the curve but lost the race (UNSW Press).
Stefan Moore
Stefan Moore is an award-winning American-Australian documentary filmmaker. In New York, he was a series producer for WNET and a producer for the prime-time CBS News magazine program 48 HOURS. In the U.K. he worked as a series producer at the BBC, and in Australia he was an executive producer for Film Australia and the national broadcaster ABC-TV. His articles have appeared in Consortium News, Counterpunch and Pearls and Irritations.
Eleanor Buckley
Eleanor Buckley is a media and communications professional, specialising in environmental research. Previously she has worked in communications roles at the University of New South Wales in climate justice research and the University of Oxford in energy research. Currently, she works with Community Power Agency, working towards improving outcomes for communities in the shift to clean energy.
Graham Pitts
Graham Pitts is a researcher and playwright whose best known plays are “Emma— Celebrazione!” And “Tour of Duty”.
Yara Hawari
Yara Hawari is Al-Shabaka’s co-director. She previously served as the Palestine policy fellow and senior analyst. Yara completed her PhD in Middle East Politics at the University of Exeter, where she taught various undergraduate courses and continues to be an honorary research fellow. In addition to her academic work, which focused on indigenous studies and oral history, she is a frequent political commentator writing for various media outlets including The Guardian, Foreign Policy, and Al Jazeera English.
Fred Gao
CGTN reporter in Beijing and worked for Guancha Net in Shanghai. My view doesn’t represent the CGTN standpoint. Feel free to contact me by email: gaoyingshi@gmail.com
Li Xing
Li Xing is a distinguished professor at the Guangdong Institute for International Strategies and a professor at the Department of Politics and Society of Aalborg University. The authors contributed this article to China Watch, a think tank powered by China Daily.