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Emma Gerhardy is the Lead Program Officer for South Australia's countering violent extremism intervention program within the Department of Human Services. Drawing on experience across frontline policing, government policy and prevention practice, her work focuses on how societies recognise and respond to vulnerability before violence occurs. Emma is also Secretary of Women in International Security Australia (WIIS-A) and an Industry PhD candidate at the University of Adelaide, where her research brings coercive control scholarship into dialogue with violent extremism prevention to examine how coercive and relational vulnerability are recognised within an increasingly complex digital landscape.

Dr Brendan Walker-Munro is A/Prof (Law) with the Faculty of Business, Law & the Arts at Australia’s Southern Cross University. Brendan’s focus is on “research security”, the use of law and policy to protect university research from national security threats such as espionage, foreign interference, hacking, and technology transfer.

Dr Zahid Sultan is an Independent Researcher based in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. He completed his MPhil on Balochistan Conflict and my Doctoral Research on Rohingya Refugees. He is currently working as lecturer in Government Amar Singh College Srinagar.

Jemma Tan is an Honours student majoring in Finance and Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney, with an interest in how nurturing international ties can capitalise on the advantages of Australia's multicultural society.

Yuting (Alina) He is a doctoral researcher in the Centre for International Security Studies at the University of Sydney. Her doctoral research investigates how livestreaming transforms global security knowledge, practices and power, and the role of (non)human actors in the process of securitisation. Before Sydney, she completed her MPhil at the University of Cambridge, researching gender and digital diplomatic practices. She has contributed to debates on gender, technology and critical approaches to global politics, both within and beyond academia. She was the WIIS-A delegate to the 2nd Australia Space Law and Policy Conference.

Maheen Tanveer is an Erasmus Mundus Master’s Scholar in the Religious Diversity in a Globalized World program. She also holds a master’s degree in Population and Development from HSE University in Moscow, as well as a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the National Defence University in Islamabad.

Muhammad Rauhan Rasheed is an Erasmus Mundus Master’s Scholar in the Religious Diversity in a Globalized World program. He has studied at the University of Groningen, the University of Córdoba, and the University of Bern. He is a frequent contributor to publications including The Diplomat, E-International Relations, and Modern Diplomacy.

Alfin Febrian Basundoro is a junior lecturer in the Department of International Relations at Universitas Airlangga.

Tessa Ballard was an honours student at Australian National University.

Blake Field holds a Master of National Security Policy from the Australian National University and a Bachelor of Security Studies from Macquarie University. His research interests include information warfare, security policy, and Korean Peninsula security. He has also completed an academic exchange at Korea University in Seoul.