Gordon Arlen is a visiting assistant professor at Swarthmore College. Previously he held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Amsterdam and at the Justitia Center for Advanced Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt. He is currently completing a book project on the problem of oligarchy as it has manifested both in contemporary democratic theory and in the history of political thought since antiquity. His research is published or forthcoming in journals such as the American Political Science Review, Political Theory, the European Journal of Political Theory, Polity, Moral Philosophy and Politics, and Inquiry. garlen1@swarthmore.edu
Carlo Burelli is a research fellow in political philosophy at the Department of Antiquity, Philosophy and History at the University of Genoa. His research lies at the junction between political philosophy and political science, as he is interested in clarifying what holds together today's large and conflictual societies. This vast question led him to cross various debates: realism vs. moralism, justice vs. legitimacy, and solidarity vs. equality. On these subjects, he has published in international journals, such as the Journal of Common Market Studies, the European Journal of Political Theory, and Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. carlo.burelli@edu.unige.it
Morten Fibieger Byskov is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. His research focuses on ethical issues at the intersection between socioeconomic development and climate change, with a particular focus on climate adaptation. He is coauthor of the entry on the capability approach in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and author of The Capability Approach in Practice: A New Ethics in Setting Development Agendas (2018). Morten.Byskov@warwick.ac.uk
Simon Caney is professor of political theory at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Justice beyond Borders: Which Political Principles Should Govern Global Politics? (2005). He has published in philosophy, politics, law, and climate change journals on global justice, justice and climate change, and responsibilities to future generations. He is currently completing two books—one defending a cosmopolitan conception of global justice (titled, On Cosmopolitanism: Equality, Ecology and Emancipation) and the second focused on how to design democratic institutions to best enable them to govern for the long term (provisionally titled, “Democracy and the Future: Addressing the Problem of Harmful Short-Termism”). S.Caney@warwick.ac.uk
Stephen M. Gardiner is professor of philosophy and Ben Rabinowitz Endowed Professor of Human Dimensions of the Environment at the University of Washington in Seattle. His research focuses on global environmental problems and future generations. He is the author of A Perfect Moral Storm: the Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change (2011), and coauthor of Debating Climate Ethics (2016) and Dialogues on Climate Justice (2022). He is also the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Intergenerational Ethics (in press), and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics (2015) and The Ethics of “Geoengineering” the Global Climate: Justice, Legitimacy and Governance (2020). smgard@uw.edu
Marco Grix was born and raised behind the Iron Curtain in former East Germany. He is a lecturer in philosophy at Massey University in Aotearoa (New Zealand). His primary research interests concern normative and applied moral, political, and environmental philosophy, with a particular focus on social practices, human flourishing and needs, virtue, and human consumption. He holds a BPhil from the University of Oxford and a PhD in philosophy from the University of Auckland. M.Grix@massey.ac.nz
Colin Hickey is a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University in the University Center for Human Values and the High Meadows Environmental Institute. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Utrecht University with the Fair Limits Project. He received his PhD in philosophy from Georgetown University. His work focuses on moral and political philosophy, especially issues of climate justice and responsibility. colin.hickey@princeton.edu
Eva Hilberg is a research associate in the Department of Sociological Studies at the University of Sheffield, and an honorary research fellow at the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex. Her PhD in international relations focused on the global biopolitics of gene patents. Her current work analyzes the role of new technologies and intellectual property rights in the definition of global health priorities, the political economies of rare disease, and the use of creative methods for research. e.hilberg@sheffield.ac.uk
Keith Hyams is professor of political theory and ethics in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. His current research focusses on the role of motivation in democratic design, and on the ethics of climate change and international development. K.D.Hyams@warwick.ac.uk
Theresa Reinold is junior professor of global and transnational cooperation research at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Her research interests lie at the intersection of politics and law. theresa.reinold@uni-due.de
Krushil Watene is a member of the Ngāti Manu, Te Hikutu, and Ngāti Whātua o Orākei Māori tribal communities, and of the Pacific nation of Tonga. She is associate professor in philosophy at Massey University in Aotearoa (New Zealand). Her research addresses fundamental questions in ethics, politics, and Indigenous philosophy. In particular, her work contributes to high-level theorizing about Indigenous well-being and justice, grounded in the central role of local Indigenous communities. She holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of St Andrews in Scotland and is a Rutherford Discovery Fellow undertaking research on intergenerational justice. K.Watene@massey.ac.nz
