• Daniel Ziblatt is an American political scientist and a professor at Harvard University with a research focus on comparative politics, democracy and democratization as well as the politics and political ...
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  • Steven Levitsky is an American political scientist and Professor of Government at Harvard University.
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  • Mark Jia is an associate professor of law at Georgetown and a Fellow (2023-24) with the Wilson Center. He specializes in comparative and transnational law, with special focus on the United States and Chi...
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  • Darius Kazemi is an American computer programmer and artist. He is a co-founder of the technology collective Feel Train.
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  • David Shimer is an expert on election security, U.S.-Russian relations, and covert action. He is the author of “Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference."
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  • Christian Brose is the former staff director of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and John McCain's former senior policy adviser.
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  • Brandi Collins-Dexter is the senior campaign director at the advocacy organization Color of Change and a visiting fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kenn...
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  • Mona Yacoubian is the director of the Middle East Program at CSIS.
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  • David Rohde is a writer for The New Yorker and author of "In Deep: The FBI, the CIA, and the Truth about America's 'Deep State.'"
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  • Maya Wang is a senior China researcher for Human Rights Watch, who has written extensively on the use of biometrics, artificial intelligence and big data in mass surveillance in China.
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  • Darren Byler is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Colorado at Boulder whose research focuses on Uighur dispossession.
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  • Jessica Batke is ChinaFile’s Senior Editor for Investigations. She researches China’s domestic political and social affairs, and served the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence as a Research Analyst.
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  • Jane Lytvynenko is a senior reporter at BuzzFeed News who focuses on disinformation.
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  • Katharine Moon is a professor of political science at Wellesley College and a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution Center for East Asia Policy Studies.
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  • Yuen Yuen Ang is an associate professor of political science at the University of Michigan and author of "China's Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption."
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  • Anne Applebaum is a columnist, historian, and the author of "Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lore of Authoritarianism."
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  • Jillian York is the director for International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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  • Christina Bouri is a Middle East fellow at the Office of Government Relations at The Episcopal Church. She was formerly a research associate in Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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  • Kenneth L. Wainstein is a senior partner at Mayer Brown and was the former Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis at the Department of Homeland Security. The Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I...
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  • Elizabeth Roper is a partner at Baker McKenzie. Prior to joining the firm, Liz served in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office as Bureau Chief of the Cybercrime and Identity Theft Bureau.
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