Bashar Malkawi is Global Professor of Practice in Law at University of Arizona. He received his S.J.D from American University, Washington College of Law, and LLM in International Trade Law from University of Arizona. He is well-versed in teaching and providing legal advice with 20+ years' experience in private and public sectors. His interests include asylum, movement of people, international trade, and economic integration and development. He has written over seventy articles for law reviews and professional publications, which have appeared in such top-tier journals Harvard Negotiation Law Review and American Journal of Comparative Law.He also sits on editorial board of a good number of journals published by Brill, Elsevier, Emerald, Wiley, Springer and several other publishers and universities.Prof. Malkawi has received numerous awards for his work. In addition to his scholarship, Prof. Malkawi frequently consults for a wide array of international organizations, governments, and international law firms.

Ikechukwu Obiaya is affiliated to the School of Media and Communication (SMC) of the Pan-Atlantic University in Lagos, Nigeria, where he lectures. He is also the director of the Nollywood Studies Centre, a unit of the SMC. His first and second degrees are in English Language. His Ph.D. thesis is a study of the impact of state intervention, through the National Film and Video Census Board, a government parastatal, on distribution in the Nigerian film industry. Obiaya’s research interest lies in the creative industries. He is also interested in audience analysis and has carried out some studies on the audience of the Nigerian film as well as on technical workers in the industry.

Aisling Swaine is Professor of Gender Studies in the School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice. She was named by A-Political as one of the world's 100 Most Influential People in Gender Policy 2021. Prior to joining UCD, Aisling was Associate Professor of Gender and Security at the Department of Gender Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science, and Associate Professor of International Affairs at The George Washington University, Washington DC. Aisling holds a PhD in law from the Transitional Justice Institute, School of Law, Ulster University. Her research is interdisciplinary engaging with the fields of feminist legal theory, transitional justice, conflict-related violence against women, gender peace and security and gender in global governance. Prior to her academic roles, Aisling worked with the United Nations and international NGOs in humanitarian and post-conflict recovery settings, including Kosovo, Burundi, Timor-Leste and Darfur, Sudan and has undertaken consultancy work in a broad range of development and peacebuilding contexts globally.

Arkadiusz Wiśniowski is a Senior Lecturer in Social Statistics, University of Manchester, UK. He holds a PhD in Economics. His interests are in integrating traditional and new forms of data to better measure populations, especially international migration. He also has general interest in statistical modelling and forecasting.