Kevin Esterling is a professor of public policy and political science, chair of political science, and the Director of the Laboratory for Technology, Communication and Democracy at the University of Cali...

David Lazer is a political science and computer sciences professor at Northeastern University and co-director of the NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science.

Tom Ellison is Deputy Director of the Center for Climate and Security (CCS). Prior to joining CCS, he spent a decade in the US intelligence community, where he helped expand analysis of the security and ...

Gordon Lubold is the White House and national security reporter at The Wall Street Journal.

Courtney Kube is a correspondent covering national security and the military for the NBC News Investigative Unit.

Raphael Parens is a Templeton Fellow in the Eurasia and Africa programs at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He studies conflicts in Africa, Russian military policy, and paramilitary groups.

Larry D. Johnson served at United Nations headquarters as the Assistant-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs. He formerly served as the legal adviser of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna an...

Arne Westad is the Elihu Professor of History at Yale, where he specializes in the Cold War and contemporary East Asian history.

Samuel Woolley, PhD, is an associate professor of Journalism and Media and the Program Director of the Propaganda Research Lab in the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin. Woo...

Inga Kristina Trauthig is the head of Research of the Propaganda Research Lab at the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her PhD in Security Studies from King’s...

Andrew O’Donohue is the Carl J. Friedrich Fellow in Harvard University’s Department of Government and co-editor of “Democracies Divided: The Global Challenge of Political Polarization” (Brookings Institu...

Steven Katz served as a defense and intelligence advisor to Congressman Jason Crow who sits on the House Intelligence and Foreign Affairs Committees. Previously, he served as an Army officer and intellig...

Dr. Chris Kempshall is a historian and author. His most recent book is "The History and Politics of Star Wars: Death Stars and Democracy."

Mary Ellen Callahan is an American attorney serving as the Assistant Secretary for the DHS Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office

Sam Bresnick is a research fellow at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), focused on AI applications and Chinese technology policy.

Harold Figueroa is co-founder of the Berryville Institute of Machine Learning. Previously he has directed machine intelligence research efforts for intelligence applications leading efforts to integrate ...

Gary McGraw is co-founder of the Berryville Institute of Machine Learning, where his work focuses on machine learning security. He is a globally recognized authority on software security and the author o...

Jennifer Kavanagh is a senior fellow and director of military analysis at Defense Priorities. She is also an adjunct professor in the Center for Security Studies at Georgetown University.

Kelly A. Grieco is a senior fellow with the Reimagining US Grand Strategy Program at the Stimson Center and an adjunct professor in the Center for Security Studies at Georgetown University.