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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.

Abdul Moiz Khan works as a Research officer at Center for International Strategic Studies, Islamabad. His works has been published at different platforms including Carnegie Endowment, South China Morning Post, The Diplomat, and South Asian Voices among others. He can be reached at kmoiz768@gmail.com.

Serena Nardi Ford is a PhD Candidate at the Global Peace and Security Centre and the Herb Feith Indonesia Engagement Centre at Monash University. She is also an affiliate at the Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (CEVAW) and was a Euan Crone Scholar with the AIIA in 2024.

Moniruzzaman is a PhD scholar at the Australian National University (ANU). His research focuses on financial technology (FinTech), with particular interest in the application of blockchain technology to the management and delivery of social finance. His broader research interests include digital finance, financial innovation, and technology-enabled approaches to inclusive and sustainable finance.

Dr Dilnoza Ubaydullaeva is a Lecturer at the ANU National Security College (NSC). Prior to joining NSC, she was a Lecturer in Government at Flinders University and an Honorary Research Fellow at the ANU Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (Middle East and Central Asia). Dilnoza’s research interests include securitisation theory, the geopolitics of Central Eurasia, radicalisation, Russian foreign policy in Central Asia and the nexus of security and policymaking.