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Tahmid Tazwar Khan is a freelance writer based in Copenhagen, Denmark. A former student at the University of Dhaka, he is recognized for his active participation in the 2018 and 2025 movements.

Sam Fricker is an Assistant Curator in the Military Heraldry and Technology section at the Australian War Memorial. With a background in art history, Sam has an enduring love for the work of Francisco Goya and a strong interest in how material culture shapes history. He holds a degree in Art History and Curatorship (Hon) from the Australian National University.

Glenn Dunbier ONZM is the former Deputy Commissioner of New Zealand Police and the former Deputy Executive Director of the Australian Civil-Military Centre. He was awarded Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his services to NZ policing and the community. His views are entirely his own.

The Honourable Bill Shorten is the vice chancellor of the University of Canberra and former leader of the opposition.

Dr. Daniel Abankwa is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Affairs at Western Carolina University. He specialises in International Political Economy (with a regional focus on Africa). More specifically, he is interested in China-Africa economic relations, neoliberalism, and state capitalism. He can be reached via dabankwa@email.wcu.edu

Diane Stone is Chair of Global Policy in the Florence School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute.

Gavin Bridge is Professor of Economic Geography at Durham University and Fellow of the Durham Energy Institute. His research focuses on the political economy of extractive industries. Gavin’s long-term engagement with the extractive sector has led to work on the geographies and geopolitics of energy transition, including co-founding the Royal Geographical Society’s Energy Geographies Research Group. He recently led a large collaborative project on transformation in the UK oil sector funded by UK Research and Innovation; and he is currently working with the UK Energy Research Centre on low carbon supply chains and the geopolitics of energy security & net zero. His previous research on resources, infrastructures and decarbonisation has been funded by the US National Science Foundation, National Geographic Society, Leverhulme Trust, British Academy, Swedish Research Council, the Economic and Social Research Council, Newton Fund and EU’s Horizon 2020 programme. Books include Oil, the Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology, and Energy and Society: A Critical Perspective.

Llani Jayne Kennealy is a Monash University’s Global Peace and Security (Monash GPS) Affiliate, retired Wing Commander, international consultant on Women, Peace and Security, and team member of Monash GPS’s project ‘Advancing the Meaningful Participation of Women in UN Peace Operations by Supporting Personnel with Caring Responsibilities' (2023-26), funded by Global Affairs Canada as part of the Elsie Initiative for Women in Peace Operations.