David Reese is a career intelligence professional who served as Director of the U.S. Army Asian Studies Detachment, the oldest and largest OSINT activity in the Department of Defense, and as senior polic...

Dr. Beka Kobakhidze is a professor and co-chair of MA Program in Modern History of Georgia at Ilia State University

Stefan Bakumenko is an independent researcher based in Washington D.C., focused on climate change, peace operations, protection of civilians, and the political economy of conflict. He has worked with the...

Halnya Yanchenko is a member of the Ukranian parliament.

Dr. Ben Talls is the director of the Democratic Strategy Intiative in Berlin.

Glenn Fine is the former principal deputy Inspector General of the Department of Defense and former Acting IG of the Department of Defense, and author of the new book, “Watchdogs: Inspectors General and ...

Kevin Xu is the author of Interconnected, a bilingual newsletter exploring the intersections of tech, business, money, geopolitics, and U.S.-China relations.

Francis Farrell is a reporter at the Kyiv Independent

Luke Baumgartner is a research fellow at the George Washington University Program on Extremism, specializing in domestic extremism and far-right movements.

David Kirichenko is an associate research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society. His work on warfare has been featured in the Atlantic Council, Center for European Policy Analysis, and The Economist, among...

Donald Sherman is the executive direct and chief counsel at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).

Karl Lockhart is an assistant professor of law at DePaul University. He focuses his research and teaching on the intersections of corporate law and other business-related topics. His scholarship has been...

Francesca Lockhart is the Cybersecurity Clinic Program Lead at the Strauss Center for International Security and Law. Before joining the Strauss Center, she managed the Homeland Security Unit at the Texa...

Andrew Koppelman, the John Paul Stevens Professor of Law at Northwestern University, is the author of “Burning Down the House: How Libertarian Philosophy Was Corrupted by Delusion and Greed.”

Rachel Shelden is a professor of history and director of the Richards Civil War Era Center at Pennsylvania State University.

Daniel Podair is an associate in Steptoe’s Investigations and White Collar Group, specializing in matters involving cybersecurity and data privacy.

Andrew C. Adams is a partner in the Investigations and White Collar Group of Steptoe LLP, and previously served as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General (Acting) for the National Security Division, the i...

Omid Ghaffari-Tabrizi is Head of U.S. Federal Civilian Policy at Google, focused on bringing innovative technologies into the government. Prior to Google, he worked for the U.S. government and was a liti...

Megan Thomas is a JD candidate at Georgetown University Law Center specializing in National Security and International Law. She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and sociology from Pepperdin...