Kiril Avramov is a post-doctoral fellow at the Intelligence Studies Project at the University of Texas at Austin. He is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science and former Vice-Rector of the New Bulgarian University in Sofia and a former Senior Fulbright Visiting Researcher at CREEES, UT Austin, Texas.
Ruslan Trad is a freelance journalist and analyst with more than 10 years' experience in covering and analysis of MENA, Balkans, and Turkey regional issues. He is the co-founder of the De Re Militari Journal and the author of The Murder of a Revolution (2017).
Dr Jamie Gaskarth is Deputy Head of the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Birmingham. He is author/editor of three books and numerous articles on British foreign policy and writes and teaches on diplomacy and strategy.
Carol King is an analyst of American politics, history, and culture and a former Procter Fellow at Princeton University.
Matthew Wood is an English teacher in Mexico City and an activist for drug policy reform and harm reduction. He is on Twitter@Mattywood91.
Anoushka Raval, a candidate in International Relations at the University of Birmingham, also writes and edits for The Intelligence Brief. Follow her on Twitter @Anoushka__R
Cherry Miller is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Birmingham and has recently earned her Ph.D. on the performativity of gender within the British House of Commons. She tweets @CherryMMiller.
Umer Karim is a PhD researcher at the University of Birmingham, focusing on Saudi Arabian Foreign Policy and Saudi Politics. He also works on International Relations of the Middle East.
