Susan A. Thornton is a U.S. diplomat with almost 30 years of experience with the U.S. State Department in Eurasia and East Asia. She is currently a senior fellow and research scholar at the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale University Law School; director of the Forum on Asia-Pacific Security at the National Committee on American Foreign Policy; and a non resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Andrea Teti is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Aberdeen, Associate Editor of Middle East Critique, co-founder of the Critical Middle East Studies (CMES) group, and Trustee of the British Society for Middle East Studies (BRISMES). Previously Visiting Professor at the universities of Bologna (2020), Cagliari (2018), Ghent (2017/18) and Amsterdam (2015), he was Consortium Lead for the EU-funded Arab Transformations Project (2015-16).
Antonio Talia has spent 7 years in Beijing working as correspondent for an Italian news agency. He has authored reportages and features stories about jihadism in Indonesia, matchfixing in Singapore, protests in Hong Kong and money laundering between Europe and Asia. In 2012 he published I Giorni del Dragone (Informant), an ebook about the struggle for power within the CCP.
He coauthors Nessun Luogo è Lontano, a radio program about international affairs on air on Radio24.
Lucia Tajoli is Full Professor of Economic Policy at the Department of Management Engineering of the Politecnico di Milano. Previously she was a Lecturer at Bocconi University and then an Associate Professor at the Polytechnic University of Milan. She received her degree in Political Economy in 1988 and a PhD in Economics from Bocconi University in 1994.
Dr. Niklas Swanström is the Executive Director of the Institute for Security and Development Policy, and one of its co-founders. He is a Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
Emma Soubrier is a visiting scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington.
Michele Sorice is a Full Professor at Luiss University, Rome, where he teaches Democratic Innovation and Political Sociology. At Luiss University, Michele is also director of the Centre for Conflict and Participation Studies (CCPS), member of the Scientific Committee of the international PhD in Political Theory and Political Sociology and of the Scientific Board of the School of Government. Member of several national and international scientific societies, Michele has been Honorary Professor at University of Stirling, Scotland, UK.
Andrea Sommariva is Associate Professor of Practice and director of the multidisciplinary research laboratory on the evolution of the space economy (SEE Lab) at the SDA Bocconi School of Management. He is an international economist specializing in international finance, the markets for oil and raw materials, renewable energy, and development of the space economy. He is a member of the study group "Space Mineral Resources - Challenges and Opportunities" of the International Academy of Astronautics.
