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Hannah Zhang (hezhang@taftschool.org) is a Dutch student at The Taft School in Connecticut, U.S. Her research interests include international relations, U.S.-China competition, and the strategic choices facing smaller states. Her work has been published by Pacific Forum and Global Policy.

Sow Yi Wen is a PhD candidate at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests include Malaysian politics, Malaysian Chinese politics, China–Taiwan relations, and Southeast Asian foreign policy.

Mohd. Yunus is a researcher from Riau Province, Indonesia. He holds a master’s degree in biological sciences from Khon Kaen University, Thailand. His expertise includes ecology, environmental economics, conservation, and sustainability.

Maheen Butt is a Lahore-based researcher and strategic communications professional who writes primarily on foreign affairs. An MPhil graduate of International Relations from Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore, her work focuses on global affairs, policy-making, emerging technologies, and defence studies.

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.

Abdulla Saeed Alhebsi is a UAE-based security, risk and leadership practitioner, independent researcher, and author. His work focuses on security governance, institutional resilience, risk management, leadership, heritage security, and the implications of emerging technologies for national and organisational security.

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.