Amitav Acharya is the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance and Distinguished Professor at the School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC. Previously he was a Professor at York University, Toronto and the University of Bristol. He is currently Honorary Professor at Rhodes University, and Guest Professor at Nankai University. He was the inaugural Boeing Company Chair in International Relations at the Schwarzman Scholars Program at Tsinghua University, Fellow of Harvard’s Asia Center and John F. Kennedy School of Government, and Christensen Fellow at Oxford. His recent books include Re-imagining International Relations (Cambridge, 2022, with Barry Buzan), The Making of Global International Relations (Cambridge, 2019, with Barry Buzan), Constructing Global Order (Cambridge, 2018); and The End of American World Order (Polity, 2014, 2018).
Philippe De Lombaerde is Director of the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS) and Lecturer at the Brussels School of Governance (VUB). Previously, he worked at Neoma Business School (Rouen), Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Bogotá), University of Antwerp, and National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA) (Bangkok). His recent edited books include: Indicator-Based Monitoring of Regional Economic Integration (Springer, 2017), The Political Economy of New Regionalisms in the Pacific Rim (Routledge, 2019), and the Handbook of Regional Cooperation and Integration (Edward Elgar, 2024).
Beatrix Futák-Campbell is Assistant Professor of International Relations (IR) at Leiden University College, based at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs, and a co-convenor of the Leiden University Centre for International Relations (LUCIR). She is a Marie Curie fellow at Aberystwyth University. Previously she worked at the University of Hamburg, University of Oxford, Vienna School of International Studies, University of Edinburgh and St Andrews, as well as at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the German Marshall Fund, and the British Civil Service. She has published Practising EU Foreign Policy: Russia and the Eastern Neighbours (Manchester University Press), and Globalizing Regionalism and International Relations (Bristol University Press).
Lynda Chinenye Iroulo is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Georgetown University in Qatar. Her upcoming book project is: Institution Building in a Multi-actor Postcolonial Region: How the African Union Navigates Diverse Demands. Before joining GU-Q, Lynda was a research fellow and is now an associate at the GIGA Institute of African Affairs, Hamburg. She was also part of the Global Governance unit at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), Berlin. She co-founded the African Policy Initiative (API).
Juliana Peixoto Batista is a Professor and researcher in the International Relations Area of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), Argentina, where she also works as coordinator of the LATN Network and as a member of the WTO/FLACSO Chair. She teaches at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and the National University of San Martin (UNSAM).