Alexander Betts is director of the Refugee Studies Centre and Leopold Muller Professor of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies at the University of Oxford. His research is on the politics and political economy of refugees, migration, and humanitarianism, with a geographical focus on Africa. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including (most recently) Global Migration Governance (2011), UNHCR: The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection (2012), Survival Migration: Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement (2013), Implementation in World Politics: How International Norms Change Practice (2014), and the forthcoming The Animators: How Diasporas Mobilize to Contest Authoritarianism (2016). Betts has worked for UNHCR and as a consultant to UNDP, UNICEF, IOM, OCHA, and the Council of Europe. His work has been funded by, among others, the MacArthur Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, and the Economic and Social Research Council. He sits on UNHCR's “i Circle,” is a member of the World Humanitarian Summit's Thematic Working Group on Transformation Through Innovation, and is founding director of the Humanitarian Innovation Project. He can be followed on Twitter at @alexander_betts.

Michael Garcia Bochenek is senior counsel to the Children's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch, focusing on juvenile justice and refugee and migrant children. He has researched and reported on criminal and juvenile justice systems and prison conditions; the protection of refugees and internally displaced persons, the exploitation of migrant workers and other labor rights issues; the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons; and rights violations in armed conflict, including the use of children as soldiers. From December 2006 to February 2015 he was director of policy and then director of law and policy for Amnesty International's secretariat in London, where he oversaw their strategic litigation, among other responsibilities. Earlier, he worked as counsel, senior researcher, and then deputy director of Human Rights Watch's Children's Rights Division in New York, directed a nonprofit immigration legal services office in Washington State's Yakima Valley, and was the Leonard Sandler Fellow with Human Rights Watch's Americas Division in Washington, D.C. bochenm@hrw.org

Deen Chatterjee is Senior Fellow in the S. J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah, a Global Ethics Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, and a member of the editorial advisory board of Ethics & International Affairs. His publications include The Ethics of Preventive War (2013), Democracy in a Global World: Human Rights and Political Participation in the 21st Century (2008), Ethics of Assistance: Morality and the Distant Needy (2004), and Ethics and Foreign Intervention (with Don E. Scheid, 2003). His research interests include justice and global initiative, ethics of war and peace, and philosophy of human rights. Currently he is working on a monograph on just war and just peace. deen.chatterjee@law.utah.edu

Craig N. Murphy is Betty Freyhof Johnson '44 Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College and Distinguished Research Professor of Global Governance and Human Security at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is past chair of the Academic Council on the UN System and past president of the International Studies Association. In 2013 he received the ISA's Distinguished Senior Scholar in International Political Economy Award for his historical studies of global governance and economic development. His most recent books include a Portuguese translation of International Organization and Industrial Change: Global Governance since 1850 (2014) and a Japanese translation of UNDP: A Better Way? (2014). He is currently working with JoAnne Yates of MIT's Sloan School on a history of voluntary consensus standard setting and its impact on the global economy. Craig.Murphy@umb.edu

Roland Paris is University Research Chair in International Security and Governance, and associate professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa. He is also founding director of the Centre for International Policy Studies. He has won several awards for his research, teaching, and public service. His latest book, co-edited with Taylor Owen, is the forthcoming The World Won't Wait: Why Canada Needs to Rethink Its International Policies. rparis@uottawa.ca

Susan Park is associate professor of international relations at the University of Sydney. Her research focuses on how actors make the multilateral development banks green and accountable. She has published in Pacific Review, Third World Quarterly, Global Governance, and Global Environmental Politics. She is the author of The World Bank Group and Environmentalists (2010) and has co-edited two volumes: Owning Development (2010, with Antje Vetterlein) and the forthcoming Global Economic Governance and the Development Practices of the Multilateral Development Banks (with Jonathan Strand). susan.park@sydney.edu.au

James Pattison is professor of politics at the University of Manchester. He is the author of Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect: Who Should Intervene? (2010), which was awarded a Notable Book Award in 2011 by the International Studies Association (International Ethics Section), and The Morality of Private War: The Challenge of Private Military and Security Companies (2014). His current project considers the ethical case for alternatives to war, such as economic sanctions, diplomacy, and nonviolent resistance, and their relation to just war theory and the responsibility to protect. The primary output will be a monograph, provisionally entitled Just and Unjust Alternatives to War. He also co-edits a book series for Routledge on “War, Conflict and Ethics” and has published various articles on the ethics of force, including in the British Journal of Political Science, European Journal of International Relations, International Theory, Journal of Political Philosophy, and Review of International Studies. james.pattison@manchester.ac.uk

Catherine Weaver is associate professor of public affairs at the University of Texas at Austin where she co-directs Innovations for Peace and Development and is a Distinguished Scholar at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law. Weaver is the author of several books and articles, including Hypocrisy Trap: The World Bank and the Poverty of Reform (2008) and Handbook of Global Economic Governance: Players, Power and Paradigms (2014, with Manuella Moschella). ceweaver@austin.utexas.edu

Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science at the City University of New York's Graduate Center and Director Emeritus of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies. Past president of the International Studies Association and recipient of its 2016 Distinguished IO Scholar Award, he is also past editor of the journal Global Governance and has written extensively about multilateral approaches to international peace and security, humanitarian action, and sustainable development. His latest single-authored volumes include: Governing the World? Addressing “Problems without Passports” (2014); Global Governance: Why? What? Whither? (2013); What's Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix It (2012); and Thinking about Global Governance: People and Ideas Matter (2011). He and Rorden Wilkinson are editors of Routledge's “Global Institutions” series and of International Organization and Global Governance (2014). TWeiss@gc.cuny.edu

Rorden Wilkinson is professor of global political economy and chair of the Department of International Relations at the University of Sussex, as well as a Professorial Fellow at the Brooks World Poverty Institute at the University of Manchester. He has written widely on global governance, trade, and development. His most recent single authored book is What's Wrong with the WTO and How to Fix it (2014). Other volumes with pertinence for this roundtable include: The Millennium Development Goals and Beyond: Global Development after 2015 (2012); Global Governance, Poverty and Inequality (2010); and Global Governance: Critical Perspectives (2002). He and Thomas G. Weiss are editors of Routledge's “Global Institutions” series and of International Organization and Global Governance (2014). rorden.wilkinson@sussex.ac.uk

Andrej Zwitter is professor of international relations and head of the Department of Political Science at the University of Groningen, Netherlands, as well as an honorary senior research fellow at Liverpool Hope University. His research interests include ethics and international affairs, Big Data ethics and governance, state of emergency politics, as well as law and politics of humanitarian action. Among his recent publications are the co-edited volume Humanitarian Action: Global, Regional and Domestic Legal Responses (2014) and the article “Big Data Ethics” (2014) in the journal Big Data and Society. a.zwitter@rug.nl