Rama Salla Dieng

Associate Professor, Gender, International Relations and Political Science; Co-Director of the Gender Centre
PhD, SOAS University of London

Rama Salla Dieng is a political scientist and an international development specialist whose research focuses on feminist international relations, African politics, and feminist political economy analyses of large-scale land acquisitions in export horticulture, labour in global value chains, social reproduction, and food in Africa and Western Europe. She regularly advises governments, international development agencies, and civil society organisations on gender-transformative and feminist policies, intersectionality, and decolonisation.

Sean Flynn

Professor of Practice, Master in International and Development Studies ; Director of the Centre on Knowledge Governance
PhD, Harvard Law School

Sean Flynn researches and teaches on the intersection of intellectual property, international law, and human rights. As Director of the Centre on Knowledge Governance, he designs and manages a wide variety of research, convening and technical assistance projects that promote the public interest in intellectual property and information law. He chairs the Global Expert Network on Copyright User Rights and is a founding member of the Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest.

Stella Ghervas

Professor, International History and Politics; Pierre du Bois Chair Europe and the World ;
Professor and Eugen Weber Chair in Modern European History, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
PhD, University of Geneva ; PhD, University of Bucharest

Stella Ghervas is a historian of Europe whose research focuses on intellectual and international history, with particular attention to peace and peacemaking, ideas in politics, diplomacy, and international (dis)order. Her work explores Europe’s engagement with the wider world, Russia and Eurasia, including maritime and oceanic history, and transnational political communities formed within and beyond empires. She has held teaching, research, and visiting positions on four continents, from Australia to the United Kingdom and Russia.

Awet Weldemichael

Professor, International History and Politics
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
 

Awet Weldemichael has worked on contemporary history and comparative politics of the Horn of Africa and island Southeast Asia. More recently, he has focused on the conflict dynamics in the countries of the Horn of Africa and their adjoining waters. His research focuses on Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia and Sudan, the Red Sea and the western Indian Ocean. His current projects include “Somalia and the Western Indian Ocean after Piracy” and “Unending Cycles? Eritrea and Ethiopia on the Cusp of Another Conflict”.