Karin Aggestam is professor of political science at Lund University, Sweden; honorary professor at Queensland University; and visiting professor at Monash University (2016–2018), Australia. She has been director of Peace & Conflict Studies, Lund University, and senior associate member at St Antony's College, Oxford University. She is currently lead author for the International Panel on Social Progress. Her interdisciplinary research interests include conflict analysis, gender, peacebuilding, international negotiation, and hydropolitics. Among her most recent books are Gendering Diplomacy and International Negotiation (forthcoming with Ann Towns) and Rethinking Peacebuilding: The Quest for a Just Peace in the Middle East and the Western Balkans (2013, with Annika Björkdahl). karin.aggestam@svet.lu.se
Jens Bartelson is professor of political science at Lund University, Sweden. His fields of interest include international political theory, the history of political thought, political philosophy, and social theory. Bartelson, who has written mainly about the concept of the sovereign state and the philosophy of world community, is the author of Visions of World Community (2009), The Critique of the State (2001), and A Genealogy of Sovereignty (1995). jens.bartelson@svet.lu.se
Annika Bergman-Rosamond is senior lecturer in international relations at the department of political science, Lund University, Sweden. She has also held lecturing and research posts in the United Kingdom and Denmark, where she received her D.Phil. Her research interests include the nexus of communitarianism and cosmopolitanism in international theory, feminism, gender cosmopolitanism, celebrity and world politics, as well as security studies. Her publications include War, Ethics and Justice: New Perspectives on a Post-9/11 World (2012, co-edited with Mark Phythian), Women, Peace and Security – and Denmark (Danish Institute for International Studies report 2014:32, Copenhagen), as well as book chapters and articles in Global Society and Cooperation and Conflict. annika.bergman_rosamond@svet.lu.se
Nicholas Chan holds a D.Phil in international relations from St Antony's College, University of Oxford. He participated in the UN climate change negotiations from 2011 to 2015 as an advisor to the delegations of Vanuatu and Palau, and has consulted for the UN Economic Commission for Africa. He has also recently published in the Review of European, Comparative, and International Environmental Law and tweets at @nickdotchan. nickchan@hotmail.com
James K. Galbraith holds the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations and a professorship of Government at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin. He has served in several positions on the staff of the U.S. Congress, including executive director of the Joint Economic Committee. He directed the LBJ School's PhD Program in Public Policy from 1995 to 1997, and currently directs the University of Texas Inequality Project, an informal research group based at the LBJ School. Galbraith's books include Inequality: What Everyone Needs to Know (forthcoming), Inequality and Instability: A Study of the World Economy Just Before the Great Crisis (2012), The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too (2008), and Created Unequal: The Crisis in American Pay (1998). He is a managing editor of Structural Change and Economic Dynamics. galbraith@mail.utexas.edu
Luke Glanville is a fellow in the department of international relations at the Australian National University. He is the author of Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect: A New History (2014) and has published in various journals, including International Studies Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, and Millennium. Glanville is co-editor of the quarterly journal Global Responsibility to Protect (with Alex Bellamy and Sara Davies). luke.glanville@anu.edu.au
Ryan Jenkins is assistant professor of philosophy and senior fellow at the Ethics and Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. His interests include normative and applied ethics, especially consequentialism, military ethics, and the ethics of emerging technologies. His work has appeared in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Journal of Military Ethics, and the Journal of Philosophical Research. He is currently co-editing a collection for Oxford University Press on liability to harm. ryjenkin@calpoly.edu
Silje Aambø Langvatn is a postdoctoral fellow at the PluriCourts – Centre for the Study of the Legitimate Roles of the International Judiciary, University of Oslo. Her research is in political and legal philosophy, with a current focus on the legitimacy of international courts and tribunals. She is currently working on a book manuscript based on her dissertation on John Rawls's idea of public reason. Her most recent article is “Legitimate, But Unjust; Just, But Illegitimate: Rawls on Political Legitimacy,” in Philosophy and Social Criticism. During the fall of 2016 Langvatn will be a Law and Philosophy Fellow at Yale University. s.a.langvatn@jus.uio.no
Duncan Purves is a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Bioethics and the environmental studies department at New York University. His areas of research include ethical theory, bioethics, and environmental ethics, focusing especially on the issues of death, the nature of wellbeing, and our obligations to future generations. His work has appeared in, among others, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Bioethics, and Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. duncan.purves@nyu.edu
Robert Sparrow is a professor in the philosophy program, a chief investigator in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science, and an adjunct professor in the Centre for Human Bioethics at Monash University, where he works on ethical issues raised by new technologies. He is the author of some seventy-five refereed papers and book chapters on topics as diverse as the ethics of military robotics, aged-care robotics, just war theory, human enhancement, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, and nanotechnology. He is a co-chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Robot Ethics and was one of the founding members of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control. robert.sparrow@monash.edu