Senior Lecturer in International Politics, City, University of London. Specialist on NGOs, social movements, internationalism and transnational history.

Camilla Rocca is Head of Research at the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, where she leads on the Foundation’s analysis and publications on African governance. Her main interest is the African political, economic and social landscape, with a focus on the nexus between fragility, development and state-society relations. She has worked extensively on these issues as independent analyst as well as political officer for the European Union in Central Africa. With a background in International Relations, she holds two MAs from the College of Europe and the University of Padua, and professional certifications including in political analysis and mediation.

Emerson is a Senior Manager and Head of Model Building and Analysis Section, Research Department, Bank of Sierra Leone. Operational role include: (I) managing the development of suite of macro-models for forecasting inflation and its surrounding risks (short, medium and long-term); (ii) coordination of technical and empirical research agenda activities that addresses core mandates pertaining to price and financial stability; and (iii) liaison of ad-hoc assignments in partnership with local and international institutions. He is in the penultimate stage of a PhD study in the Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham, UK. The research focuses on the exploration of livelihood diversification in Goderich (Freetown, Sierra Leone) and risk to the environment on account of the voracious activities people are engaged in to address their livelihood needs.

Geoffrey Swenson is an Associate Professor of International Politics at City, University of London, an External Affiliate of Ostrom Workshop at the University of Indiana, Bloomington, and a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Geoffrey's current research focuses on issues related to post-conflict reconstruction, democracy and the rule of law, legal pluralism, and foreign aid. Geoffrey's research has been published in leading journals including International Security, World Development, International Studies Review, Third World Quarterly, PS: Political Science & Politics, Disasters, and the Columbia Human Rights Law Review. He has also managed in-country initiatives in various countries, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Namibia, Nepal, and Timor-Leste. Geoffrey is currently a Fellow-in-Residence with the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford. He has also held fellowships at the London School of Economics, Stanford University, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Previously, he was an in-country program manager for the Asia Foundation in Timor-Leste and Nepal, the founder and in-country director of Stanford Law School's Timor-Leste Legal Education Project, and a global political party development specialist with the National Democratic Institute. Geoffrey completed a DPhil in International Relations at Oxford as a Clarendon Scholar and won the Bapsybanoo Marchioness of Winchester Prize for most outstanding thesis. He holds an MA in Comparative Ethnic Conflict from Queen's University Belfast as a Mitchell Scholar, and a JD from Stanford Law School.