• Belinda Archibong — Assistant Professor of Economics at Barnard College, Columbia University | Areas of research: development economics, political economy, economic history and environmental economics | Website
• Louise Fox — Nonresident Senior Fellow, Africa Growth Initiative, Brookings | Focuses: youth employment, inclusive growth and poverty reduction | Website
• Aleksandra Gadzala Tirziu — Nonresident Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council | Head of research with The Singularity Group | Author, Africa and China: How Africans and Their Governments are Shaping Relations with China | Website
• Christina Golubski — Associate Director of the Africa Growth Initiative, Brookings | Website
• Aubrey Hruby — Nonresident Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council’s Africa Center | Co-founder of Insider and the Africa Expert Network | Investor in African start-ups | Website
• Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala — Director-General of the WTO | Website

• Jess Auerbach — Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, North-West University in South Africa | Author, From Water to Wine: Becoming Middle Class in Angola and Archive of Kindness: stories from the other side of the South African pandemic | Website
• Emily Bridger — Senior Lecturer in Global and Imperial History, University of Exeter | Author, Young Women against Apartheid: Gender, Youth and South Africa’s Liberation Struggle | Website
• Jendayi E. Frazer — Adjunct Senior Fellow for African Studies, Council on Foreign Relations | Author, Enhancing the Conflict Prevention Role of Elections in Africa | Website

• Michelle Gavin — Senior fellow for African Studies, Council on Foreign Relations | Expertise: Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Democracy, Sub-Saharan Africa, Kenya and Sudan | United States ambassador to Botswana (2011-2014) | Website 
• Anita Powell — Southern Africa correspondent for Voice of America | Website

• Winnie Atieno — Broadcast and Print Journalist based in Mombasa | Website
• Adjoa Anyimadu — Research Associate, Chatham House | Website 
• Andrea Dijkstra — Journalist based in Nairobi | Website 

• Jendayi E. Frazer — Adjunct Senior Fellow for African Studies, Council on Foreign Relations | Author, Enhancing the Conflict Prevention Role of Elections in Africa | Website
• Tabitha Kanogo — Associate Professor of History, University of California Berkeley | Author, Squatters and the Roots of Mau Mau, African Womanhood in Colonial Kenya, and Wangari Maathai | Website
• Julie MacArthur — Associate Professor of Historical Studies, University of Toronto | Author, Cartography and the Political Imagination: Mapping Community in Colonial Kenya and Dedan Kimathi on Trial: Colonial Justice and Popular Memory in Kenya’s Mau Mau Rebellion | Website
• Ambreena Manji — Professor of Land Law and Development at Cardiff School of Law and Politics | Author, The Struggle for Land and Justice in Kenya | Website 
• Scheaffer Okore — Writer and Policy Analyst, Nation | Website
• Victoria Rubadiri — Journalist | Senior News Anchor, Citizen TV
• Samira Sawlani — Journalist and Analyst focused on East Africa | Website
• Susan Thomson — | Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, Colgate University | Rwanda: From Genocide to Precarious Peace | Website  
• Rasna Warah — Journalist | Author of two books on Somalia, War Crimes and Mogadishu Then and Now | Website

• Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley – Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer for the Department of State | Staff Profile

• Bunmi Akinnusotu – Deputy Director of the Rangel Fellowship at Howard University, Creator & Producer of What in the World podcast | Staff Profile

• Adjoa Anyimadu – Senior Policy Associate, Open Data Insitute (FPI fellow) | Staff Profile | LinkedIn
• Elana Aquino – US Executive Director, Peace Direct, Board Chair, Women of Color Advancing Peace, Security and Conflict Transformation (WCAPS) | LinkedIn | Staff Profile

• Heather Ashby – Senior Program Officer, United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (FPI Fellow) | LinkedIn
• Karen Attiah – Columnist, The Washington Post, focusing on issues relating to race, gender and international politics, with a special interest in Africa | Staff Profile

• Nicole Bibbins Sedaca – Executive Vice President of Freedom House | Staff Profile
• Yolande Bouka – Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University (FPI fellow) | Staff Profile | Website
• Sundaa Bridgett-Jones – Chief Partnerships & Advocacy Officer, The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet, The Rockefeller Foundation | Staff Profile | LinkedIn
• Kamissa Camara – Director of External Affairs and Africa Policy, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, Senior Visiting Expert for the Sahel, United States Institute of Peace (USIP) | LinkedIn | Staff Profile

• Asha Castleberry-Hernandez – Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Founder of Diversity in National Security Network (DINSN) (FPI Fellow) | Staff Profile
• Ajenai Clemmons – Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of Denver | LinkedIn
• Mari Faines – Director of Communications and Outreach, Physicians for Social Responsibility | Staff Profile | LinkedIn
• Naima Green-Riley – PhD Candidate, Department of Government at Harvard University, Nonresident fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab | Website | Staff Profile | LinkedIn

• Nola Haynes – Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Pepperdine University, Director at Women of Color Advancing Peace and Security (WCAPS), West Coast Chapter | LinkedIn

• Bonnie Jenkins – Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, Founder of Women of Color Advancing Peace and Security (WCAPS) | Staff Profile
• M. Tia Johnson – Visiting Professor and Director, National Security Law LL.M Program, Georgetown University | LinkedIn | Staff Profile
• Beverly Kirk ­– Executive Director, JOURNEY | LinkedIn | Staff Profile

• Laura Kupe – Senior Advisor to the Deputy Secretary of Defense | LinkedIn

• Wanida Lewis – Chief Executive Officer, Crescendo Foods Ghana | LinkedIn

• Nanja Njyabola – Writer, Researcher, Political Analyst (FPI fellow) | Website
• Hodan Osman – Founder and Executive Director at Center for East African Studies at IASZNU, Associate Professor, Zhejiang Normal University (FPI fellow) | LinkedIn
• Ibilola Oweyele – Project Manager at Chemonics International | LinkedIn | Staff Profile
• Shannon Paige – Policy Associate, Peace Direct | LinkedIn | Staff Profile
• Susan Rice – Domestic Policy Advisor, Biden Administration, Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow at American University’s School of International Service | Staff Profile

• Mareena Robinson Snowden – Senior Engineer at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory researching nuclear weapon systems, nuclear crisis issues, and new technology for surface warfare | Website | LinkedIn
• Shalonda Spencer: Executive Director, Women of Color Advancing Peace and Security (WCAPS) | Staff Profile | LinkedIn
• Camille Stewart – Nonresident Fellow, Cyber Project, Belfer Center, Nonresident Fellow, Digital Forensics Research Lab, Atlantic Council | Staff Profile | Website

• Audrey Kawire Wabwire – Media Manager, Human Rights Watch (HRW), Co-produces the HRW podcast Power of the Streets, oversees the Nairobi Human Rights Watch Film Festival (FPI Fellow) | Staff Profile | LinkedIn

• Romina Bandura: Senior Fellow, Project on Prosperity and Development, Project on U.S. Leadership in Development, Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) | Staff Profile
• Anar Bata: Coordinator, US and the Americas Program, Chatham House | Staff Profile
• Célia Belin: Visiting Fellow – Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, Brookings Institution | Staff Profile
• Jane Harman: Distinguished Fellow and President Emerita, Wilson Center | Staff Profile
• Sarah (Holewinski) Yager: Washington Director, Human Rights Watch | Staff Profile
• Jaclyn Kerr: Nonresident Fellow ­– Foreign Policy, Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology and the Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology Initiative, Brookings Institution | Staff Profile
• Sarah Kreps: Nonresident Senior Fellow – Foreign Policy, Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology Initiative, Brookings Institution | Staff Profile
• Kathryn C. Lavelle: Global Fellow, Wilson Center | Staff Profile
• Tanvi Madan: Senior Fellow – Foreign Policy, Project on International Order and Strategy, Brookings Institution | Staff Profile
• Laura Pitter: Deputy Director, US Program, Human Rights Watch | Staff Profile
• Elizabeth Saunders: Nonresident Senior Fellow – Foreign Policy, Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Project on International Order and Strategy, Brookings Institution | Staff Profile
• Marianne Schneider-Petsinger: Senior Research Fellow, US and the Americas Program, Chatham House | Staff Profile
• Philippa Strum: Global Fellow, Wilson Center | Staff Profile
• Caitlin Talmadge: Nonresident Senior Fellow – Foreign Policy, Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Brookings Institution | Staff Profile
• Letta Tayler: Associate Director, Crisis and Conflict Division, Human Rights Watch | Staff Profile
• Leslie Vinjamuri: Director, US and the Americas Program, Chatham House | Staff Profile
• Kate Weine: Coordinator, Washington Advocacy, Human Rights Watch | Staff Profile

• Rona Ambrose: Global Fellow, Wilson Center Canada Institute | Staff Profile
• Maureen Boyd: Fellow, Diplomacy & Global Governance, Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI) | Staff Profile
• Luiza Ch. Savage: Executive Director for POLITICO Canada, Fellow, Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI) | Staff Profile
• Julie Clark: Defense/Defense Policy Fellow, Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI) | Staff Profile
• Kristen Csenkey: Security/Cyber & Tech Fellow, Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI) | Staff Profile
• Farida Deif: Canada Director, Human Rights Watch | Staff Profile
• Charlotte Duval-Lantoine: Defense Fellow, Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI) | Staff Profile
• Judit Fabian: Economics/Diplomacy & Global Governance Fellow, Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI) | Staff Profile
• Patricia Fortier: Western Hemisphere/ Diplomacy & Global Governance Fellow, Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI) | Staff Profile
• Kathryn Friedman: Global Fellow, Wilson Center Canada Institute | Staff Profile
• Allison Gifford: Western Hemisphere/Canada Fellow, Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI) | Staff Profile
• Monica Gattinger: Director of the Institute for Science, Society and Policy, Universtiy of Ottowa, Western Hemisphere/Security Fellow, Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI) | Staff Profile
• Emily Gilfillan: Security/Food & Water Fellow, Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI) | Staff Profile
• Sarah Goldfeder: Diplomacy & Global Governance Fellow, Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI) | Staff Profile
• Deanna Horton: Diplomacy & Global Governance Fellow, Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI), Senior Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy | Staff Profile
• Fawn Jackson: International Trade Fellow, Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI) | Staff Profile
• Amy Karam: Economics/International Trade Fellow, Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI) | Staff Profile
• Elizabeth Kingston: Western Hemisphere Fellow, Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI) | Staff Profile
• Marta Leardi-Anderson: Global Fellow, Wilson Center Canada Institute | Staff Profile
• Meredith Lilly: Global/Canada Fellow, Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI) | Staff Profile
• Natalia Loukacheva: Diplomacy & Global Governance/Human Rights Fellow, Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI) | Staff Profile
• Barbara Martin: Western Hemisphere Fellow, Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI) | Staff Profile
• Marcia Mills: Western Hemisphere/Canada Fellow, Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI) | Staff Profile
• Lisa Raitt: Global Fellow, Wilson Center Canada Institute | Staff Profile
• Lindsay Rodman: Western Hemisphere Fellow, Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI) | Staff Profile
• Elinor Sloan: Defense/Security Fellow, Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI) | Staff Profile
• Sarah E.K. Smith: Diplomacy & Global Governance Fellow, Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI) | Staff Profile
• Laurie Trautman: Global Fellow, Wilson Center Canada Institute | Staff Profile
• Adriana Vega: International Trade/Canada Fellow, Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI) | Staff Profile
• Stéfanie von Hlatky: Western Hemisphere/Canada Fellow, , Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI) | Staff Profile
• Charity Weeden: Western Hemisphere/Canada Fellow, , Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI) | Staff Profile

• Bassima Alghussein – Executive Director and Member of the Board of Directors at Middle East Policy Institute  | Managing Partner of Alghussein Global Strategies |  Staff Profile 
• Michele Dunne – Nonresident Scholar in Carnegie’s Middle East Program | Previously Founding Director of the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East at the Atlantic Council | Staff Profile
• Julia Elyachar – Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, and Arabic language at Princeton University | Author, “Markets of Dispossession: NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo” | Staff Profile | Book 
• Intissar Fakir – Senior Fellow and Director of Program on North Africa and the Sahel |  Staff Profile
• Dina Fakoussa – Associate fellow of DGAP | Previously served as head of its Middle East and North Africa Program | Formerly the EU-Middle East Forum Associate Fellow | Staff Profile  
• Federica Saini Fasanotti – Nonresident Fellow in the Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution | Staff Profile  
• Rebecca Hersman– Director, Project on Nuclear Issues, and Senior Adviser, International Security Program at CSIS | Staff Profile 
• Allison Holle – Program Assistant at the Atlantic Council’s empowerME initiative Program Assistant | Previously CASA fellow at the American University in Cairo | Staff Profile
• Sally Khalifa Isaac –  Former Mediterranean-Dialogue Research Fellow at the NATO Defense College | Former Visiting Scholar at the Center for Middle East Politics at the Freie Universitaet Berlin | Staff Profile 
• Alessia Melcangi – Tenure Track Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Sciences and Economics (DiSSE) of La Sapienza University of Rome | Nonresident Senior Fellow at Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East programs | Staff Profile 
• Alissa Pavia – Assistant Director for the North Africa Program within the Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East Programs at the Atlantic Council |  Staff Profile  
• Jo-Anne Prud’homme – Danish Institute Against Torture | Legal and investigative researcher focusing on international human rights law and practice | Staff Profile
• Caitlin Welsh –  Director of the Global Food Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies | Previously served in the National Security Council and National Economic Council | Staff Profile
• Sarah Yerkes – Senior Fellow in Carnegie’s Middle East Program | Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs | Staff Profile

• Noha Aboueldahab – Nonresident Fellow in the Foreign Policy Program at Brookings | Previously Fellow at the Brookings Doha Center | Staff Profile | Book
• Aslı Bâli – Professor at UCLA School of Law | Faculty Director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights  | Staff Profile 
• Benedetta Berti – Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Program on the Middle East and Senior Advisor | Acting Head of the Policy Planning Division of the Office of Secretary General of NATO | Staff Profile | Book 
• Sarah Bush – Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Program on the Middle East | Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University | Research Fellow at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies | Staff Profile 
• Melani Cammett – Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs | Harvard University Acting Director | Weatherhead Center for International Affairs | Faculty Affiliate, MiddleEast Initiative | Staff Profile  | Book
• Irina A. China  – Political Scientist with the RAND Corporation | Staff Profile 
• Janine A. Clark – Professor in Religious Institutions in the Middle East at University of Guelph | Staff Profile 
• Paula J. Dobriansky – Senior Fellow in the Future of Diplomacy Project at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs | Vice-Chair of the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council | Staff Profile
• Laura DuLaura Dugan – Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice |  Member of the National Center for the Study of Terrorism and the Response to Terrorism | Staff Profile 
• Rebecca Earnhardt – Research Associate with the Nuclear Security program at the Stimson Center | Staff Profile    
• Kristin E. Fabbe – Faculty Affiliate at the Belfer Center’s Middle East Initiative | Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Business, Government, and International Economy Unit, Harvard Business School | Staff Profile | Book
• Alia Fakhry – External Consultant Supporting DGAP’s Migration Program | Migration Program | Staff Profile 
• Kirsten Fontenrose – Director of the Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative in the Atlantic Council’s Middle East Program | Previously Senior Director for the Gulf at the National Security Council, leading the development of U.S. policy | Staff Profile 
• Courtney Freer – Nonresident Fellow in the Foreign Policy Program at Brookings | Assistant Research Fellow at the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science | Author, “Rentier Islamism: The Influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in Gulf Monarchies”  Staff Profile | Book 
• Lucia Garcia Rico – Fellow at Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs | Rafael del Pino-Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Fellow, Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship |  Staff Profile  
• Erica Gaston –  Nonresident Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | Senior Policy Advisor and Head of Conflict Prevention and Sustaining Peace Program at the United Nations University Centre for Policy Research | Staff Profile
• Beth Grill – Senior Policy Analyst at the RAND Corporation | Served as a Presidential Management Fellow and as a policy analyst at the US Department of Commerce | Staff Profile 
• Julia Groeblacher – Millennium Fellow at the Atlantic Council | Currently Serves as a Special Assistant to US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman | Staff Profile 
• Ms. Anne Joyce –  Vice-president and Member of the Board of Directors Middle East Policy Institute | Staff Profile  
• Azzurra Meringolo – Journalist at the Foreign Desk of the Giornale Radio Rai | Adjunct Professor at the Università Roma Tre | Staff Profile
• Haideh Moghissi – Founder of the Iranian National Union of Women | Professor at York University | Author,  “Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism: The Limits of Postmodern Analysis” | Staff Profile |  Book
• Danielle Ngo – Military Assistant to the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee | Staff Profile
• Hanna Notte – Senior Research Associate with the VCDNP | Previously Senior Political Officer with The Shaikh Group |  Staff Profile   
• Farah Pandith – Senior Fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government | Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations |  Senior Advisor at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue | Staff Profile | Book
• Afreen Siddiqi – Visiting scholar with the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs | Adjunct lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School | Staff Profile
• Alexandra Siegel – Nonresident fellow in the Foreign Policy Program at Brookings affiliated with the Center for Middle East Policy and the Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology Initiative | Staff Profile  
• Jessica Tuchman Mathews –  Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | Served as Carnegie’s president for 18 years | Staff Profile  
• Maha Yahya – Director of the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center | Research on Citizenship, Pluralism, and Social Justice in the Aftermath of the Arab Uprisings | Staff Profile  

• Yasmina Abouzzohour – Visiting fellow with North Africa and the Middle East program at the European Council on Foreign Relations | Previously Political Risk Analyst at Oxford Analytica | Staff Profile 
• Laurie Brand –  Robert Grandford Wright Professor of International Relations and Middle East Studies at the University of Southern California | Author, “Jordan’s Inter-Arab Relations: The Political Economy of Alliance Making”| Staff Profile | Book  
• Tuqa Nusairat – Director for Strategy, Operations, and Finance at Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East Programs | Previously worked at Project on Middle East Democracy and the National Endowment for Democracy | Staff Profile

• Léa Bodossian: Secretary General and Executive Director, EuroGeographics | Staff Profile
• Lotta Bjoerklund Larsen: Research Fellow, Linkoeping University, Sweden | LinkedIn
• Ingebjørg Finnbakk: Engagement and Dialogue Officer, European Institute of Peace (EIP), Member of Nordic Women Mediators Network | Staff Profile
• Hilde F. Johnson: Senior Advisor, European Institute of Peace (EIP) | Staff Profile
• Luísa Laranjo: Compliance & Ethics Counsel Manager, Accenture | LinkedIn
• Stine Lehmann-Larsen: Director for Engagement, Dialogue and Process Design, and Deputy Executive Director and the European Institute of Peace (EIP) | Staff Profile
• Ingrid Magnusson: European Affairs Manager, European Institute of Peace (EIP) | Staff Profile
• Mechthild Ross: Lecturer in Comparative Politics at Augsburg University | Website