Bolarinwa Adediran teaches politics at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. His research interests span humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect, regional organizations, and the United Nations Security Council. bolarinwa.adediran@manchester.ac.uk
Ronald J. Deibert is professor of political science and director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto. The Citizen Lab undertakes interdisciplinary research at the intersection of global security, information and communication technologies, and human rights. Deibert is the author of Black Code: Surveillance, Privacy, and the Dark Side of the Internet (2013), as well as numerous books, chapters, articles, and reports on Internet censorship, surveillance, and cybersecurity. In 2013 he was appointed to the Order of Ontario and awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for being “among the first to recognize and take measures to mitigate growing threats to communications rights, openness, and security worldwide.” r.deibert@utoronto.ca
Martha Finnemore is University Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University. Her research focuses on global governance, international organizations, cybersecurity, ethics, and social theory. She is the co-author (with Michael Barnett) of Rules for the World: International Organizations in Global Politics (2004), which won the International Studies Association's award for Best Book; and is the author of National Interests in International Society (1996) and The Purpose of Intervention (2003), which won the American Political Science Association's Woodrow Wilson Award. Finnemore's most recent books are Back to Basics: State Power in a Contemporary World (2013) and Who Governs the Globe? (2010). Her articles have appeared in International Organization, World Politics, American Journal of International Law, Annual Review of Political Science, Review of International Studies, Review of International Political Economy, Global Governance, Foreign Affairs, and elsewhere. Finnemore is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, has been a visiting research fellow at the Brookings Institution and Stanford University, and has received fellowships or grants from the MacArthur Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Smith Richardson Foundation, and the United States Institute of Peace. finnemor@gwu.edu
Duncan B. Hollis is professor of law at Temple University Law School in Philadelphia. His scholarship engages with issues of international law and cybersecurity, with a particular emphasis on treaties, norms, international organizations, and other forms of international regulation. Hollis is also currently a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, as well as an elected member of both the American Law Institute and the OAS Inter-American Juridical Committee. He studies and participates in global negotiating dynamics on regulating state behavior in cyberspace, and has worked with Microsoft on its recent proposals to create new institutions to improve global cybersecurity. duncan.hollis@temple.edu
Micheline Ishay is professor of international studies and human rights at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. She is the author of The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Era of Globalization (2008) and The Levant Express: The Arab Uprisings and the Future of the Middle East (forthcoming 2019). mishay@du.edu
Tim Maurer is codirector of the Cyber Policy Initiative at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His recent work focuses on cybersecurity, human rights in the digital age, and Internet governance. Prior to joining the Carnegie Endowment, Maurer was the director of the Global Cybersecurity Norms and Resilience Project and head of research of the Cybersecurity Initiative at New America. His recent book, Cyber Mercenaries: The State, Hackers, and Power (2018), is a comprehensive study examining proxy relationships between states and hackers. tmaurer@ceip.org
Jens David Ohlin is vice dean and professor of law at Cornell Law School, where he specializes in international law and all aspects of criminal law, including domestic, comparative, and international criminal law. Ohlin's research also focuses on the laws of war, in particular the impact of new technology on the regulation of warfare and the role of nonstate actors in armed conflicts. In the area of international criminal law, he concentrates on the application of traditional criminal law theory by international tribunals, especially with regard to genocide, torture, joint criminal enterprise and co-perpetration, and the philosophical foundations of collective criminal action more generally. jdo43@cornell.edu
Ş. İlgü Özler is founder and director of the State University of New York's Global Engagement Program in New York City and associate professor of political science and international relations at SUNY New Paltz. Her research focuses on civic engagement as it relates to political parties, nongovernmental organizations, and social movements. She teaches courses on the United Nations and global civil society, and since 2004 she has organized over 360 briefings at the United Nations for her students. She also currently serves as a board member for Amnesty International USA. ozleri@newpaltz.edu
Anne Peters is director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law Heidelberg and holds professorships at Heidelberg, Freie Universität Berlin, Freie Universität Basel, and the University of Michigan, where she serves as a William C. Cook Global Law Professor. She was a member of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) from 2011 to 2015 and served as president of the European Society of International Law from 2010 to 2012. Her current research interests relate to public international law, including its history; global animal law; global governance and global constitutionalism; and the status of humans in international law. apeters-office@mpil.de
Daniel J. Weitzner is founding director of the Internet Policy Research Initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and principal research scientist at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He teaches Internet public policy in MIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. Previously, he was U.S. deputy chief technology officer for Internet policy in the White House, where he led initiatives on privacy, cybersecurity, copyright, and digital trade policies, and was responsible for the Obama administration's Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights and the Internet Policymaking Principles of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Weitzner is a founder of the Center for Democracy and Technology, led the World Wide Web Consortium's public policy activities, and was deputy policy director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He is recipient of the International Association of Privacy Professionals Leadership Award (2013) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award (2016). djweitzner@csail.mit.edu