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Ali Rizk

Ali Rizk is a security analyst and holds a master’s degree in Counterterrorism from Macquarie University, Sydney.

Lauren Lowe

Lauren Lowe is a PhD candidate in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University, Australia, examining gender and Kosovo’s peace process. She is also a research officer at the Monash Global Peace and Security (GPS) Centre researching women’s participation in peacebuilding and peacekeeping.

Daniel Garnett

Daniel Garnett holds a Master of International Security from Massey University. He is a former board member of the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs in Palmerston North, and a serving member of the New Zealand Defence Force. He is currently on an exchange with the Royal Australian Air Force in Canberra.

Dr Eka Nugraha Putra

Dr Eka Nugraha Putra is a research fellow at the Centre for Trusted Internet and Community, National University of Singapore. His research interests include criminal law, human rights and cyber law.

Mr Richard Neumann FCPA

Mr Richard Neumann is Chair of the Smart Energy Council Pacific Working Group and a member of the Advisory Council of the Franco-Australian Centre for Energy Transition at Swinburne University. Richard is a former diplomat who served overseas in Beijing, Seoul, and Taipei, and was Director of the Climate Mitigation and Investment Section in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade from 2019 to 2024. He has a Master's Degree in Foreign Affairs and Trade from Monash University, co-designed a Grid Integration of Renewable Energy Course with the Australian National University, and managed the Australia-Germany Hydrogen from Renewable Energy Supply Chain Feasibility Study with the University of New South Wales.

Nabeela Siddiqui

Nabeela Siddiqui is an Assistant Professor at the Vinayaka Mission’s Law School, VMRF-DU, Chennai.

Stefano Gujon

Stefano Gujon is an independent analyst and writer focused on geopolitical risk, information operations, and Indo-Pacific strategy.

Dr Sean Andrews CSC

Dr Sean Andrews, CSC, is a retired Royal Australian Navy officer and maritime strategist, currently Senior Fellow at the Strategy, Statecraft and Technology - Changing Character of War Centre, Pembroke College, Oxford University. He has led Australia’s Sea Power Centre, commanded ADF operations in the Middle East, and publishes widely on Indo-Pacific sea power, maritime security, and the global oceanic order.

Seda Çolakoğlu

Seda Çolakoğlu is a PhD researcher in the Department of International Security at the Institute of Security Sciences, Turkish National Police Academy. Her research focuses on critical perspectives related to security, (counter) terrorism, and political violence, as well as various aspects of gender within the contexts of international security and (counter) terrorism.

Azira Ahimsa

Azira Ahimsa is the 2025 Rising Expert on Technology at Young Professionals in Foreign Policy (YPFP). She holds an MSc in Defence, Development and Diplomacy from Durham University (2016), is ASEAN Co-Chair of the US ASEAN Young Professionals Association, and has served in digital trade roles at the Australian Trade and Investment Commission and the UK Department for Business and Trade in Jakarta.

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Ali Rizk

Lauren Lowe

Daniel Garnett

Dr Eka Nugraha Putra

Mr Richard Neumann FCPA

Nabeela Siddiqui

Stefano Gujon

Dr Sean Andrews CSC

Seda Çolakoğlu

Azira Ahimsa

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