Amit Gupta is Associate Professor at USAF Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama.

"James Lee" is the pseudonym of a political analyst who has been based in London and Tehran.

David O'Mahoney is a teacher of history and geography and a Master’s graduate in geopolitics at University College Dublin.

Etfa Khurshid Mirza is a researcher at the Centre for Aerospace & Security Studies (CASS), Pakistan, specializing in emerging technologies and their impact on warfare and in nuclear safety and security. She can be reached at @sky_limiter.

Aidan O'Driscoll is a MA student at UCD Clinton Institute. He is a member of The Last Hurrah project.

John Adalah is the pseudonym of a citizen journalist who has covered the Syrian conflict since 2011.

Marta Lorimer is a Fellow in European Politics at the London School of Economics. Prior to joining the European Institute, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Exeter. She has also held visiting positions at Forum MIDEM at TU Dresden and at the Centre d’Etudes Européennes in Sciences Po Paris.

Joseph Supple is a final-year undergraduate candidate at the University of Birmingham, studying International Relations with Spanish including a year at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Isabelle Ingledew is a candidate in Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences at the University of Birmingham, focusing on Psychology and Political Science.