Helen Thompson is a professor of political economy at Cambridge and one of the two principal voices of the Talking Politics podcast.

Philip Mudd is currently a counterterrorism and national security analyst with CNN. He spent 25 years working at the Central Intelligence Agency, on the NSC staff, and eventually at the FBI.

Ali Hakim is a third-year student at Yale Law School.

Matei Alexianu is a law clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and a graduate of Yale Law School.

Gitanjali Reddy is a student at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service. She is pursuing a B.S. in Science, Technology, and International Affairs with a concentration in Security Studies....

Zoe Darmé is the manager of Facebook's Global Affairs and Governance team and is leading the global outreach efforts in support of the Oversight Board.

Brian Egan is a former legal advisor to the State Department and National Security Council.

Pete Simi is a Professor of Sociology at Chapman University and researcher for the National Counterterrorism, Innovation, Technology & Education Center (NCITE).

JD Work is the Bren Chair for Cyber Conflict and Security at the Marine Corps University.

John Watts is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security.

Tiffany Li is a visiting professor at Boston University and a fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.

Peter Pomerantsev is a research fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University and the author of "This is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality."

John Hudak was deputy director of the Center for Effective Public Management and a senior fellow in Governance Studies.

William A. Galston holds the Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in the Brookings Institution’s Governance Studies Program, where he serves as a Senior Fellow. Prior to January 2006 he was the Saul Stern Professor and ...

Janet Haven is the executive director of Data & Society. She has worked at the intersection of technology policy, governance, and accountability for more than twenty years, both domestically and internat...

Preston Marquis is a J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, where he also completed a master’s degree in the Securit...

Maziar Bahari leads IranWire, a news site that conveys original information from Iran via citizen journalists.

Liza Tobin is senior director for economy at the Special Competitive Studies Project.