Janine di Giovanni is a Senior Fellow at the Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, has reported on some of the world’s most violent conflicts and wars for more than three decades, investigating and documenting human rights abuses in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. She currently directs Enabling Witnesses, a project sponsored by…
DetailsFrancis J. Gavin is the Giovanni Agnelli Distinguished Professor and the inaugural director of the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at SAIS-Johns Hopkins University. In 2013, Gavin was appointed the first Frank Stanton Chair in Nuclear Security Policy Studies and Professor of Political Science at MIT. Before joining MIT, he was the Tom Slick…
Her Excellency Mrs. Janice Charette (London, UK) is High Commissioner for Canada in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Permanent Representative of Canada to the International Maritime Organization. She assumed her responsibilities as High Commissioner on September 7, 2016. Prior to this, Mrs. Charette served as Clerk of the Privy Council…
For more than 40 years, Jeffrey Simpson (Ottawa, Canada) wrote for The Globe and Mail, 32 of which were as national affairs columnist. He wrote seven books, one of which won the Governor-General’s award, another the $50,000 Donner Prize for the best book on public policy. He won the National Newspaper award twice, and the…
Kishore Mahbubani (Singapore) is a Distinguished Fellow at the National University of Singapore’s Asia Research Institute. A veteran diplomat, student of philosophy and celebrated author, his career has taken him from Singapore’s Chargé d’Affaires to wartime Cambodia (1973 – 1974) and President of the UN Security Council (Jan 2001, May 2002) to the Founding Dean…
Margaret MacMillan (Toronto and Oxford) is professor of History at the University of Toronto and an emeritus professor of International History at Oxford University. She was Provost of Trinity College, Toronto from 2002 – 2007 and Warden of St Antony’s College, Oxford from 2007 – 2017. She is currently a trustee of the Central European…
Sir Lawrence Freedman (London, England) was Professor of War Studies at King’s College London between 1982 and 2014 and Vice-Principal of the College from 2003 to 2013. He now holds the position of ‘Emeritus Professor’ in the Department of War Studies. Before joining King’s, Sir Lawrence held research positions at Nuffield College Oxford, IISS and…
Cameron Abadi (Berlin, Germany) is a deputy editor at Foreign Policy. He previously worked at the New Republic and Foreign Affairs and as a correspondent in Germany and Iran. His writing has appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek, the New Yorker, the New Republic, and Der Spiegel.
Daniel W. Drezner is professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and a contributing editor at Foreign Policy. Prior to Fletcher, he taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has previously held positions with Civic Education Project, the RAND Corporation…