Timothy Garton Ash
Timothy Garton Ash – Isaiah Berlin Professional Fellow, Professor of European Studies at Oxford University. He became a Fellow at St. Anthony’s College in 1989, a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He has written a weekly column in The Guardian since 2004 and is a long-time contributor to the New York Review of…
Christya Freeland
A journalist, a politician, and a writer. She is the author of Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else which won the Lionel Gelber Prize in 2013.Prof. Antje Wiener
Professor Antje Wiener holds the Chair of Political Science, especially Global Governance at the University of Hamburg. She is currently on leave with a two year Opus Magnum Fellowship awarded by the Volkswagen Foundation. She was made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom in 2011. A founding editor of the interdisciplinary journal Global Constitutionalism: Democracy,…
Dr. Astrid S. Tuminez
Dr. Astrid S. Tuminez joined Microsoft in 2012 as Regional Director for Corporate, External and Legal Affairs (Southeast Asia). She is the former Vice-Dean (Research) and Assistant Dean (Executive Education) of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. Her previous positions include senior consultant to the U.S. Institute of Peace, Director…
Prof. Allison Stanger
Professor Allison Stanger is the Russell Leng ’60 Professor of International Politics and Economics and founding director of the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs at Middlebury College. She is the author of One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy and the forthcoming Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Leaks:…
Scott Shane
Scott Shane, winner of the 2016 Lionel Gelber Prize for his book Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone, is a reporter in the Washington bureau of The New York Times, where he has covered national security since 2004. He has written on recruiting by the Islamic State; the debate…
Matias Spektor
Matias Specktor is a professor of International Relations at the Getulio Vargas and he writes a foreign-policy column for Folha de S. Paulo, Brazil’s leading newspaper. He graduated in International Relations from the University of Brasilia where he also completed a master’s degree and worked for the United Nations. He followed soon after to the University…

