Chandra Muzaffar
Chandra Muzaffar, Former Professor of Global Studies, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang; President of the International Movement for a Just World (JUST)
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar is a Convenor of Saving Humanity and Planet Earth (SHAPE) and the President of the International Movement for a Just World (JUST). Chandra was Professor and Director of the Centre for Civilisational Dialogue, University of Malaya (1997-1999) and Professor of Global Studies at Universiti Sains Malaysia (2007-2012).
Tasneem Chopra
As CEO of The Culture Lens, Tasneem Chopra OAM highlights issues of equity and belonging through an intersectional lens within leadership of government, corporate, arts and community sectors.She assists clients communicate, work with and lead across different cultures for greater impact, dissecting the breadth of inclusion. Tasneem has developed diversity, equity and inclusion policies, managed projects, curated exhibitions, facilitated leadership program and engagement strategies for a breadth of clients for two decades.For her efforts she was appointed the inaugural Ambassador for Women of Colour, Australia was an Anti-Racism Champion for the Australian Human Rights Commission and awarded an OAM.
Tiarna Williams
Tiarna is a Awabakal-Dharawal woman from Wollongong, NSW who has a deep commitment to justice, equity and driving positive change, particularly for marginalised First Nations communities. She is currently studying a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of International Studies at the University of Wollongong and has international exchange experience in the United Kingdom and Singapore. Tiarna’s commitment to advancing human rights is reflected in her roles with the Evonne Goolagong Foundation, the School of Law and Outreach and Future Students Division at UOW and currently at the National Justice Project. She also serves on advisory groups with Tennis NSW and the U.S. Consulate, where she continues to advocate for the inclusion of Indigenous perspectives. With a future goal of working for the United Nations in human rights law and humanitarian aid, she strives to give voices to the voiceless and promote Indigenous justice both here in Australia and abroad. Tiarna is travelling to the United Nations General Assembly’s Sixth Committee as part of the Global Voices Policy Fellowship. Her Fellowship is supported by the Menzie’s Leadership Foundation.
James R. Merikangas
James R. Merikangas, M.D. is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at George Washington University and a research consultant for the National Institute of Mental Health. In addition, he is co-founder of the American Neuropsychiatric Association and former president of the American Academy of Clinical Psychiatrists.
Steve Posselt
Steve Posselt FIE Aust Immediate past chair of Sustainable Engineering Society, Civil Engineer specialising in Climate Change and how it relates to Engineering Risk, Sustainability Educator, adventurer and author of two books furthering education on climate change.
Madison Cartwright
Madison Cartwright is a Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy and the convenor for the Politics and International Relations undergraduate programme at UNSW. My research interests include the political economy of intellectual property, trade, and the economic-security nexus.
Prudence L. Gourguechon
Prudence L. Gourguechon, M.D. is the former president of the American Psychoanalytic Association and former vice president of the World Mental Health Coalition.
James Gilligan
James Gilligan is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York University, who has specialized in studying the causes and prevention of violence. For 35 years he taught at the Harvard Medical School, where he became Director of the Institute of Law and Psychiatry, and became director of mental health services for the Massachusetts prisons. From 1999 to 2001 he was President of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy.
Jo Case
Jo Case has been associate publisher at Wakefield Press, program manager of Melbourne Writers Festival, deputy editor of Australian Book Review, senior writer/editor at the Wheeler Centre, books editor of The Big Issue and associate editor of Kill Your Darlings. Jo was a founding board member of the Stella Prize. She has been published in the Age/SMH, Guardian, ABC, the Monthly and more. Her books are a memoir, Boomer and Me (Hardie Grant, 2013) and Someone Like Me: An anthology of non-fiction…
Robert Hinkley
Robert C. Hinkley is a former corporate partner in one of America’s largest law firms and the author of “Time to Change Corporations: Closing the Citizenship Gap.” He was also the principal advisor to the US Department of Justice in its investigation of the fraud in the residential mortgage backed securities that caused the global financial crisis of 2008. He now resides in Berry, NSW.
Bandy X. Lee
Dr. Bandy Lee is a forensic and social psychiatrist and a world expert on violence who taught at Yale Law School for 17 years while on the faculty of Yale School of Medicine, before joining the Harvard Medical School faculty, where she remained until 2024. She is currently devoting her time to a number of policy-oriented think tanks, both domestically and abroad.
Vaughan Cruickshank
Vaughan Cruickshank Senior Lecturer in Health and Physical Education, University of Tasmania
Christopher Robertson
I’m a British citizen who has worked in China but currently resident in Thailand. Over the years I’ve come to understand that all is not what it seems and I’ve noticed that the way China is portrayed in the West is wrong
Steven Roberts
Steve is Professor of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, Monash University. His research centres two key strands: changes and continuities in contemporary masculinities, and also transitions from youth to young adulthood. Steve has published widely on these subjects in various international journals, and he is author of several books.
James Ley
James Ley is a former editor of the Sydney Review of Books. He has more than twenty years experience as a freelance essayist and literary critic. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, Australian Book Review, The Times Literary Supplement and Public Books. In 2014, he was awarded the Geraldine Pascall Prize for Australian Critic of the Year.
Tim Buckley
Tim Buckley is director of leading independent think tank Climate Energy Finance (CEF) and a former MD of global investment bank Citigroup.
Jersey Lee
Jersey Lee is an international affairs analyst, founder of the Indo-Pacific geopolitics dialogue platform Pacific Polarity, and regional research associate at the Indo-Pacific Studies Center. He worked in China as a journalist and on track two diplomacy. He has written on Chinese, Australian and American domestic and foreign policies in international publications including Lowy Institute’s The Interpreter, South China Morning Post, Canberra Times, Australian Outlook and UK National Committee on China.
Geoffrey Whitehead
Geoffrey Whitehead was the first Managing Director and Board member of the ABC under its 1983 Act, from 1984-86. He has a Diploma in International Affairs (London) and a Masters Degree (merit) in International Relations (University of Victoria, Wellington). He is the author of ‘Inside the ABC’ (Penguin 1988) and of ‘Tending the flame of democracy’ (iUniverse 2004).
Ming Gao
Ming Gao is Researcher of East Asian Studies in the Department of History at Lund University, Sweden.
Ingrid Burfurd
Ingrid Burfurd is a Senior Associate in Grattan Institute’s Cities and Transport Program. Ingrid has a background in public policy and academic research, with experience in environmental, transport, and procurement policy.
Ingrid previously worked as a Senior Economist in the Victorian Public Service. She served as a Senior Expert Advisor on the UNFCCC’s High-Level Panel reviewing the Clean Development Mechanism.
Ingrid has a PhD in Economics and an honours degree in Arts and Commerce (Economics), both from the University of Melbourne. Her research has been published in highly-ranked journals including Experimental Economics and the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.
David Marr
Over the years David Marr has written about politics, society and the arts for the National Times, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age and the Guardian. At the ABC he reported for Four Corners in the 1980s, presented Arts Today on Radio National in the 1990s, presented Media Watch in the early 2000s and for years appeared regularly on Q&A and Insiders.
His books include Patrick White, A Life (1991) and Dark Victory written with Marian Wilkinson (2003) plus half a dozen Quarterly Essays on political leaders from John Howard via Bill Shorten to George Pell. Lately his essays, stories and speeches exploring Australia over the last 45 years have been collected in My Country.
Jeffrey Braithwaite
Jeffrey Braithwaite is Founding Director of the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University. He is an international member of the World Health Organisation Global Patient Safety Network. He publishes in the leading health and medical research journals and expresses his work at a unique intersection of organisational studies, health services research, and clinical care.
Richard Falk
Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University, Chair of Global law, Queen Mary University London, and Research Associate, Orfalea Center of Global Studies, UCSB.
Angela Glindemann
Angela Glindemann is a writer (often as Ange Crawford), editor, educator and PhD candidate living on unceded Wurundjeri land in Australia. In her doctoral research at RMIT, she is developing an ambient writing practice inspired by intersections between creative writing and architecture. Her debut YA novel, How to Be Normal, won the inaugural Walker Books Manuscript Prize and was released in March 2025. She has a background in educational publishing.
Andrew Singleton
Andrew is a professor of sociology and social research at Deakin School of Humanities and Social Sciences. His research interests include spirituality, young people, new religious movements (including Spiritualism), global Christianity, secularisation, non-religion, religious change, and contemporary survey methods.
David Lowe
Professor David Lowe is Chair in Contemporary History at Deakin University, and a co-founder of the Australian Policy and History network.
Mara Kronenfeld
Mara Kronenfeld is Executive Director of the UNRWA USA National Committee (online at unrwausa.org), a separate but affiliated nonprofit to UNRWA that mobilises U.S. support for the agency’s mission
Anne E. McLaren
Anne E. McLaren is Honorary Professorial Fellow at the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne
Peter Hibbert
Peter Hibbert Honorary Professor, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University
Peter Sprivulis
Harkness fellow, geeky doc, Expertise in Health policy/strategy, digital health & emergency medicine. Trying to understand complex interplay between geopolitics, economics, climate and the environment. Blog these topics at www.thisnannuplife.net