Professor Liam Kennedy is Director of the Clinton Institute for American Studies at University College Dublin.
Patrick Hilsman is a New York-based journalist covering the Middle East and North Africa with a focus on the Syrian conflict, international weapons traffic, and refugee rights. Hilsman has written for numerous outlets and appeared on BBC World, MSNBC, and Huffington Post Live. He has written extensively on state-funded propaganda, fake news, and cyber attacks, and has also covered cases of police misconduct in New York and racism in US politics.
Daniele Albertazzi is Professor of Politics at the Department of Politics of the University of Surrey. He was the Principal Investigator of the project “The Survival of the Mass Party: Evaluating Activism and Participation Among Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe” (aka “Populism In Action”), funded by the ESRC (ES/R011540/1) and hosted on EA WorldView.
Daniele has published widely on European politics in international journals such as West European Politics, Party Politics and Government & Opposition. He is the co-editor (with Duncan McDonnell) of Twenty-First Century Populism: The Spectre of Western European Democracy and the co-author (with Duncan McDonnell) of Populists in Power.
Daniele is on Twitter at @DrAlbertazziUK.
Andrew Dryhurst is a graduate of the University of Birmingham and the Erasmus Mundus Masters Program in Public Policy. He can be reached on Twitter at @AMDryhurst.
Ellis Palmer Babe is EA WorldView's Digital Media Editor and a post-graduate student at Barcelona's Pompeu Fabra University. A recent graduate of the University of Birmingham, he researches and writes about contemporary Spain and the Catalan situation. He's a season ticket holder at Manchester City and a keen fan of Gaelic sports too.
Dr Balsam Mustafa is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Warwick. She earned her doctorate at the University of Birmingham, working with EA's Scott Lucas.
Lars Hauch studied International Development and is currently undertaking his Masters degree in Political Science at the University of Vienna. He is the lead editor at MENA Roundup, a weekly publication. Before that, he was Head of Editorial at German media outlet Commentarist and worked with various NGOs on political issues.
