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Nilza Amaral is a programme manager with the International Security programme at Chatham House. Along with experience in strategic planning and policy engagement, her areas of expertise include the conduct of war, including ethics and the transformation of warfare, with a particular focus on armed drones. She has examined the relationship between drone technology and the use of force, and, more widely, the sociology of war.
Nilza holds an MSc in International Security and Global Governance, and a a BA in Politics and Society, both from Birkbeck, University of London.
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Director of the Creative Arts Research Institute - a values informed institute researching in, through and about creative arts and design practices.
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Asanka Wijesinghe is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka (IPS) with research interests in macroeconomic policy and international trade. He is also interested in the impact of adjustment costs of trade, gravity modelling in trade, econometrics and the trade origins of populist politics. He has undertaken efficiency analyses, particularly public spending efficiency, using parametric and non-parametric efficiency analysis approaches.
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Historian of market morality and corporate social responisibility. PhD Harvard University; currently professor and chair at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
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Associate Professor (Practice), Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. Twenty years of public sector experience.
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Advocate Ntombi Mnyikiso B.Proc, LLB is an expert Legislative Drafter for the Government of the Republic of South Africa, with more than 20 years' experience. She is a member of the Commonwealth Association of Legislative Counsel. Adv Mnyikiso is the drafter of many complex laws, including banking, taxation, finance, mining, the National Council on Gender Based Violence and Femicide legislation and other related women empowerment laws. She was part of the first group of Prosecutors to receive specialised training to prosecute in the Specialised Sexual Offences Court when they were launched.
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Joy Nyokabi is a graduate student from Kenya with interests in Africa in governance, development and international affairs. She
is currently working on her MA in Pan African studies at Syracuse University. She also holds a B.A in International Relations and a DALF C1
diploma in French. She is the founder of a Afrika Yangu, an organization which does research and advocacy.on
issues to do with social justice, race & equality and African development. She is currently working as a Teaching Assistant in the African American
Studies department of Syracuse University.
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Dr Lilija Alijeva is Presidential Fellow at the City Law School, University of London. Her research focuses on the human rights of national, ethnic, linguistic, and religious minorities. Her current research projects focus on the way international justice institutions and International Organisations protect minorities and their rights. She is part of the Minority Rights Solidarity Network steering group, which is a network of academics and practitioners working in the field of minority rights protection.
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Joel P. Trachtman is Professor of International Law and Henry J. Braker Professor of Commercial Law at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. An expert on international economic law, he is the author of ten books, including The Future of International Law: Global Government, and over a hundred scholarly articles and book chapters. Professor Trachtman has served as a member of the Boards of the American Journal of International Law, the European Journal of International Law, and the Journal of International Economic Law.
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Professor of Education, School of Education and Social Work, Faculty of Arts and Social Science, University of Sydney. Tony specialises in national and international policy and practice,principally in education, and cross-cultural analysis and research. He has extensive experience in many countries, including in the Asia Pacific, and has published widely, contributing numerous analyses of issues such as cross-cultural interactions; rural education, comparative research methods in education; and practical reform affecting multiculturalism, indigenous minorities, international students, higher education reforms, internationalisation of higher education in the Asia Pacific, and changes to the academic profession.