Daniel E. Esser is Assistant Professor at the School of International Service at American University. He previously taught at Columbia University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chulalongkorn University, and the London School of Economics and Political Science. A former staff member of the United Nations Secretariat and the United Nations Development Programme, he has also worked as a consultant to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the International Labor Organization, and the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development. His research has been published in the Journal of Business Ethics, Environment & Urbanization, and Gesellschaft Wirtschaft Politik. Additional articles are forthcoming in Critical Planning and World Development. He is currently finishing a book manuscript on urban resilience in zones of armed conflict. He blogs at http:\\www.danielesser.org.
Rajan Menon is Monroe J. Rathbone Professor of International Relations at Lehigh University. His latest book is The End of Alliances (2007). He has written widely for academic and popular audiences in such publications as International Security, Foreign Affairs, World Policy Journal, Survival, The National Interest, The Los Angeles Times, The Financial Times, The Boston Globe, and Newsweek. His current book project is Hubris: The Anatomy of Military Disasters.
Darrel Moellendorf is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs at San Diego State University. He is the author of Cosmopolitan Justice (2002) and Global Inequality Matters (2009), and is currently working on a book on climate change and morality. Other recent work appears in the Journal of Political Philosophy, Journal of Social Philosophy, Metaphilosophy, Theoria, and Social Theory and Practice. He is coeditor (with Thomas Pogge) of Global Justice: Seminal Essays (2008).
Thomas Pogge received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University and has published widely on Kant and in moral and political philosophy, including various books on Rawls and global justice. He is Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University, Professorial Fellow at the Australian National University Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, and Research Director at the Oslo University Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature. He is also editor for social and political philosophy for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science. He currently heads a team effort toward developing a complement to the pharmaceutical patent regime that would improve access to advanced medicines for the poor worldwide (http:\\www.healthimpactfund.org).
Mathias Risse is Associate Professor of Public Policy and Philosophy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is currently writing a book, The Grounds of Justice: An Inquiry about the State in Global Perspective, that looks at, among other things, issues of immigration, human rights, and obligations toward future generations. His essay “On the Morality of Immigration” is the subject of an exchange in Ethics & International Affairs 22, no. 3 (2008).
Doris Schroeder, whose background is in philosophy, politics, and economics, is Professor of Moral Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Professional Ethics at the University of Central Lancashire, and Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne. Her main research interests include international justice, human rights, benefit-sharing, and the rights of indigenous peoples. She has led research projects for the Wellcome Trust and the European Commission on benefit-sharing with developing countries, and has been invited to all continents to share her knowledge on the topic.
