Fritz Allhoff is professor of philosophy at Western Michigan University and adjunct professor of philosophy at University of Alaska Anchorage. He received his PhD in philosophy from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his JD from the University of Michigan Law School. Following law school, he clerked for the Honorable Chief Justice Craig F. Stowers of the Alaska Supreme Court. He has been a fellow at the Center for Law and the Biosciences at Stanford Law School and a Fulbright specialist in the faculty of political science at the University of Iceland. He is co-founder of the Asia-Pacific chapter of the International Society for Military Ethics and has done extensive volunteer work in indigenous Alaskan villages. fritz.allhoff@wmich.edu
Sarah-Vaughan Brakman is associate professor of philosophy at Villanova University. She has served as an ethics consultant for health systems, behavioral healthcare providers, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She has written scholarly articles and book chapters in the areas of bioethics, applied ethics, and social philosophy. Brakman is co-editor of The Ethics of Embryo Adoption and the Catholic Tradition: Moral Arguments, Economic Reality and Social Analysis (2007) and is currently writing a book to be titled Of Blood and Love and the Ties That Bind: An Ethical Analysis of Adoption Practices. sarah.vaughan.brakman@villanova.edu
Sara E. Davies is associate professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University. She is also adjunct associate professor at the Monash Gender, Peace, and Security Centre, School of Social Sciences, Monash University, and at the Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology. Her most recent book, Containing Contagion: The Politics of Disease Outbreaks in Southeast Asia (2019), charts Southeast-Asian states’ political cooperation in response to a wave of emerging and endemic infectious disease outbreaks between 1998 and 2015. sara.davies@griffith.edu.au
Amandeep Singh Gill is executive director and co-lead of the secretariat of the UN Secretary-General's High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation. He co-chairs the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Values, Ethics, and Innovation, and is a member of the Council on Extended Intelligence, launched by the IEEE Standards Association and the MIT Media Lab. Previously, he was India's ambassador and permanent representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva and chair of the 2017–2018 meetings of the Group of Governmental Experts of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons on emerging technologies in the area of lethal autonomous weapon systems. learningfuturespro@gmail.com
Kimberly Hutchings is professor of politics and international relations and head of school at Queen Mary University of London. She has published widely in the fields of international political theory, feminist ethics, and global ethics. Her key works include International Political Theory: Rethinking Ethics in a Global Era (1999); Time and World Politics: Thinking the Present (2008); and Global Ethics: An Introduction (2018). k.hutchings@qmul.ac.uk
Patrick Lin is director of the Ethics+Emerging Sciences Group based at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where he is a professor of philosophy. His current affiliations include Stanford Law School, University of Notre Dame, the World Economic Forum, and Stanford University's “One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence.” His previous affiliations include University of Iceland's Centre for Arctic Policy Studies at the Arctic Circle, Stanford Engineering, the U.S. Naval Academy, Dartmouth College, the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research expert group on autonomous weapons, and the Emerging Technologies of National Security and Intelligence initiative at the University of Notre Dame. Lin has published extensively on technology ethics, including the co-edited volumes Robot Ethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Robotics (2012) and Robot Ethics 2.0: From Autonomous Cars to Artificial Intelligence (2017), as well as several policy reports on military robotics, cyber warfare, and enhanced warfighters. palin@calpoly.edu
Steven Livingston is professor of media and public affairs and of international affairs at the George Washington University and a senior fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He studies the role of digital technology in politics and policy processes, including human rights monitoring, disinformation campaigns, governance, and the provisioning of public goods. Among other publications, he has co-authored (with W. Lance Bennett and Regina Lawrence) When the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina (2007) and co-edited Bits and Atoms: Information and Communication Technology in Areas of Limited Statehood (2014). His research and consulting activities have taken him to over fifty countries since 2006. sliv@gwu.edu
Inderjeet Parmar is professor of international politics and head of department at City, University of London, a coordinator of the World Order Watch Network of scholars, and past president and chair of the British International Studies Association. He has published several books, including Foundations of the American Century: The Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Foundations in the Rise of American Power (2012). His current major long-term book project is titled Presidents and Prime Ministers at War: Race, Empire, and Elitism in Anglo-American Wars from Korea to the Wars on Terror. inderjeet.parmar.1@city.ac.uk
Mathias Risse is the Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Administration as well as director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is the author of On Global Justice (2012) and Global Political Philosophy (2012), as well as the forthcoming On Trade Justice: A Philosophical Plea for a New Global Deal (with Gabriel Wollner) and On Justice: Philosophy, History, Foundations. mathias_risse@harvard.edu
Heather Roff is senior research analyst at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, nonresident fellow in foreign policy at Brookings Institution, and associate fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge. Her prior positions include senior research scientist at DeepMind; senior research fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford; research scientist at the Global Security Initiative at Arizona State University; and faculty appointments at the University of Denver, the University of Waterloo, and the United States Air Force Academy. heather.roff@jhuapl.edu
Jeffrey D. Sachs is university professor and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he directed the Earth Institute from 2002 until 2016. He is also director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and a commissioner of the UN Broadband Commission for Development. He has been special advisor to three UN secretaries-general and currently serves as a Sustainable Development Goals Advocate under UN Secretary-General António Guterres. TIME magazine twice named him among its one hundred most influential people, and the Economist ranked him among the top three most influential living economists. The author of many books and articles, his most recent work is A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism (2018). sachs@columbia.edu