• Ashley Merryman is an author and attorney. With Po Bronson, she’s written two New York Times bestsellers, NurtureShock and Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing, bylines for many national publicati...
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  • Dr. Alexandra Paulus is Project Director for Cybersecurity Policy and Resilience at Stiftung Neue Verantwortung, the Berlin-based tech policy think tank. Her expertise covers cyber diplomacy, German and ...
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  • Dr. Andreas Kuehn is a Senior Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation America. His research on cybersecurity policy, supply chain security, and emerging technology focuses on new risks and challenges ...
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  • Frédéric Mégret is Professor and Dawson Scholar, Faculty of Law, at McGill University. He is the co-editor with Philip Alston of “The United Nations and Human Rights: A Critical Appraisal”; with Immi Tal...
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  • Kuzi Charamba is a postdoctoral fellow, Faculty of Law, at the University of Hong Kong. Charamba is the author of “Hired Guns and Human Rights: Global Governance and Access to Remedies in the Private Mil...
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  • David Priess is Director of Intelligence at Bedrock Learning, Inc. and a Senior Fellow at the Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security. He served during the Clinton a...
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  • Jim Dempsey is a lecturer at the UC Berkeley Law School and a senior policy advisor at the Stanford Program on Geopolitics, Technology and Governance. From 2012-2017, he served as a member of the Privacy...
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  • Brian L. Cox is a doctoral candidate lecturer and J.S.D. candidate at Cornell Law School. He retired in 2018 from the U.S. Army after 22 years of military service as an airborne infantry soldier, combat ...
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  • Jordan Schneider is the host of the ChinaTalk podcast and newsletter. He previously worked at Kwai, Bridgewater and the Eurasia Group. His Chinese landscape paintings "show promise."
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  • John A. Emmons is an intern at Lawfare and Chinese and political science undergraduate at St. Olaf College, where he is managing editor of the Olaf Messenger.
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  • Rose McDermott is the David and Mariana Fisher University Professor of International Relations at Brown University and a fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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    Jen Patja is the editor and producer of the Lawfare Podcast and Rational Security. She currently serves as the Co-Executive Director of Virginia Civics, a nonprofit organization that empowers the next ge...
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  • Ashley Deeks is the Class of 1948 Professor of Scholarly Research in Law at the University of Virginia Law School and a Faculty Senior Fellow at the Miller Center. She serves on the State Department’s Ad...
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  • Hannah Bloch-Wehba is an Associate Professor of Law at Texas A&M University School of Law who writes on law and technology. She is also an Affiliated Fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Proje...
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  • Katherine Pompilio is an associate editor of Lawfare. She holds a B.A. with honors in political science from Skidmore College.
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  • Hadley Baker was an Assistant Editor of Lawfare. She is a recent graduate from the University of St Andrews, studying English literature and Spanish. She was previously an intern at Lawfare.
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  • Avery Schmitz is a freelance researcher, covering violent extremism along the U.S.-Mexico border. In May of 2023, he graduated from the George Washington University with a B.A. in Middle Eastern Studies....
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  • Anna Lenhart is a Policy Fellow at the Institute for Data Democracy and Politics at The George Washington University. Most recently she served as a Technology Policy Advisor in the US House of Representa...
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  • Capt. William “Stone” Holden is a Marine Officer currently assigned to United States Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM), where he has held billets insecurity cooperation and collections management, as well as...
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  • Sana Tariq is a research fellow for mediation at the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies in Doha. She has worked on the Afghan file since 2020 on political and humanitarian dialogue tracks. Her ...
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