HUMAN SECURITY CENTRE - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Member of the Political Board
• Member of Parliament, New Zealand

Denis O'Rourke MP has been a list Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives of New Zealand since 2011, representing New Zealand First. He is currently a member of the Standing Orders Committee and Justice and Electoral Committee, and is the Spokesperson for Justice, Attorney General, Constitutional Review, Transport, Housing, State Services, Civil Defence and Emergency Services, and Christchurch Earthquake Issues. He is also the Associate Spokesperson for Climate Change, Economic Development and Local Government. Formerly, he had been a Christchurch City Councillor for 15 years and had chaired the council's Sustainable Transport and Utilities Committee, while also being a member of the Strategy and Finance Committee and many other council committees. Mr. O'Rourke has also had a distinguished career as a barrister and solicitor, and served as a member of the Legal Aid Review Panel and on the boards of the Christchurch Transport Establishment Board, Board of Christchurch Transport Limited (now Redbus Ltd), Disputes Tribunal in Christchurch, Works Operations Establishment Board, Post Office Bank Limited Establishment Board, Postbank Limited, and Christchurch International Airport Limited. He also served as Chairman of the Recovered Materials Foundation, Meta NZ Limited and Transwaste Canterbury Limited. He is currently chairman of the Central Plains Water Trust, establishing a large community irrigation scheme in Canterbury. Mr. O'Rourke has a strong interest in constitutional issues and in human rights issues.

Job Titles:

• Consultant
• Founder
• Member of the Board of Directors
• Secretary
• Founder and Director of Think - Film Impact Production

Dr Dwayne Ryan Menezes is the Founder and Director of the Human Security Centre (HSC). He is also the Director of the Commonwealth Policy Development Centre (CPDC), previously the ‘Commonwealth Unit' at HSC that was enlarged and launched in the margins of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in London to serve as a full-fledged think-tank dedicated to policy development across the Commonwealth. CPDC continues to be hosted and staffed by HSC. Dr Menezes is also the Founder and Director of Polar Research and Policy Initiative (PRPI), a London-based international think-tank dedicated to Arctic, Nordic, Baltic and Antarctic affairs, as well as energy and environment issues. Dr Menezes has long pursued a career at the intersection of academia, policy, social entrepreneurship and the arts. In his academic career, he is a historian of the British Empire and the Commonwealth, with a focus on the role of indigenous actors in travel and exploration, imperial administration and Christian missions. He read History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and the University of Cambridge, graduating from the latter with a PhD in History. He also served as Research Associate at the Centre of Governance and Human Rights (CGHR) at the University of Cambridge; Visiting Academic at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford; and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Heythrop College, University of London. At present, he serves as Associate Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, and Honorary Fellow at the UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London. In his policy career, besides his various think-tank roles, Dr Menezes has served as Consultant to the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Principal Consultant to the European Parliament Intergroup on Freedom of Religion or Belief, Head of the Secretariats of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Yemen and the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Visas & Immigration in the UK Parliament, and Research Associate to a UN Special Rapporteur. At the Commonwealth, he served as the principal historian for the official 50-year histories and reviews of the Commonwealth Secretariat and the Office of the Commonwealth Secretary-General, and continues to provide research and analysis, as and when requested, to the Commonwealth Secretariat and the wider Commonwealth family. At the European Parliament, he was the lead researcher for the Intergroup's annual reports on the state of religious freedom around the world. Within the UN system, Dr Menezes was a member of the interdisciplinary research team at the Cambridge-based CGHR that prepared the study Unlawful Killings in Africa (Cambridge, 2014) for the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions. Dr Menezes served as the Principal Investigator looking into the use of excessive force in the context of mass demonstrations. Information presented in the study formed the basis of the UN Special Rapporteur's report to the UN Secretary-General and UN General Assembly (A/69/265), and the study served as the founding document for a newly-established unit at the University of Pretoria. Over his tenure as Director at Human Security Centre, he has served as Principal Coordinator of PRISM, a Europe-wide consortium of think-tanks and universities working to address radicalisation within the EU. He has also liaised with various governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental actors in advancing human security and protecting and preserving cultural heritage under threat in the Middle East and North Africa. In 2014, he initiated the widely-publicised letter to Prime Minister David Cameron, calling for urgent action to protect religious and ethnic minorities under threat in Iraq and Syria, that was co-signed by the Prince of the Yazidis and several British Lords, MPs and prominent media figures. In 2015, he was one of the 25 UK delegates at the UK-Egypt High-Level Experts Meeting on ‘Preserving Egypt's Cultural Heritage' in Cairo organised by the AHRC (UK) and STDF (Egypt) to explore ways of combating the looting and illegal trafficking of stolen antiquities. In recent years, he co-authored evidence to the UK House of Commons Defence Select Committee inquiry into humanitarian intervention that featured prominently in the Defence Select Committee report Intervention: Why, When and How? (2014) and contributed to the HSC report aimed at informing the UK Government's National Security Strategy and Strategic Defence and Security Review (2015), He also chaired a panel discussion in the House of Lords - hosted by the APPG on International Religious Freedom - about recognising the atrocities in Iraq and Syria as constituting genocide (2016); chaired sessions at the UN Human Rights Council and UN Business and Human Rights Forum on global supply chains in the electronics industry and human rights, as well as the impact of media on Freedom of Religion or Belief (2017-2018); and moderated sessions in the UK Parliament and the European Parliament on sport and disability in the Commonwealth and EU respectively (2018). Under his leadership, HSC also contributed to the negotiation process and side events at the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris that led to the Paris Agreement, whereafter he was invited by the Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General to attend the Paris Climate Change Agreement Ratification Ceremony at UNGA71 in New York as a Civil Society Observer. Until recently, he also sat on the Management Committee of the UK Polar Network (UKPN) - the UK branch of the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS). In addition, he and his colleagues have been frequently consulted for analysis and commentary by the BBC, Channel 4, Sky News, Al Jazeera, Guardian, Telegraph, Independent, Evening Standard, International Business Times, Spectator, New Statesman, DW, MSNBC, Channel News Asia, Arctic Journal, Arctic Deeply and other media outlets. Formerly, Dr Menezes also served as Researcher at the Westminster-based social policy think-tank ResPublica, as Governor of a Church of England School in London, and as Director of a development NGO in India. Within the arts, Dr Menezes is the Founder and Director of Think-Film Impact Production (TFIP), a film production company which supports established and emerging filmmakers by producing and promoting films that address social and political issues and advance positive social outcomes. He is the Associate Producer of the Oscar-shortlisted, Emmy-nominated Canadian film My Enemy, My Brother (2015, 2017) that deals with refugees from Iraq and Iran in Canada; the American documentary COMPLICIT (2017) that looks at labour rights, global supply chains and occupational health and safety in China; the Italian-Venezuelan film La Soledad (2016) that depicts the economic crisis in Venezuela; and the South African film The Number (2017) that focuses on the numbered prison gangs of South Africa. Apart from academia and politics, Dr Menezes is passionate about travel, exploration, art, museums, heritage conservation, opera, ballet and equestrian sports. He has travelled extensively in over 60 countries in 5 continents, including Greenland and 7 of the 8 Arctic states.

Job Titles:

• Deputy Director
• Member of the Board of Directors

Dr Rowan Allport is a Deputy Director who leads the HSC's Security and Defence team. Rowan holds a PhD in Politics and a MA in Conflict, Governance and Development from the University of York, as well as a BA (Hons) in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Hull. Specialising in strategic analysis and international security, Rowan's primary areas of interest lie in the defence issues in and around the NATO region, interstate conflict and US foreign policy discourse. He is also the lead author of HSC's Fire and Ice: A New Maritime Strategy for NATO's Northern Flank report. Rowan's publication credits include articles and commentary in Foreign Policy, The Diplomat, The Hill, DefenseOne, RealClearDefense, The Strategist, UK Defence Journal, Politics.co.uk and The National Interest. He has previously worked as a lobbyist for the Whitehouse Consultancy in Westminster, and as a Senior Analyst for RAND Europe's Security, Defence and Infrastructure team.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Academic Board
• Non - Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution
• Non - Resident Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Program at Brookings

Dr. Roberta Cohen is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution where she co-founded and for more than a decade co-directed the Brookings Institution Project on Internal Displacement, and served as Senior Adviser to the Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons. Cohen is also a Senior Fellow at Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of International Migration and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at American University's Washington College of Law. She is author of numerous articles and co-author of several books on international protection of displaced persons caught up in conflict within their own countries. Together with Francis Deng, she received the Grawemeyer Award in 2005 for Ideas Improving World Order. Dr. Cohen has served as Public Member of the United States Delegation to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (1998) and Public Member of the United States Delegation to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (2003). During the Carter administration, she served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for human rights in the Department of State's first human rights bureau and as senior adviser to the U.S. Delegation to the UN. She has also been Honorary Secretary of the Parliamentary Human Rights Group (London) and Executive Director of the International League for Human Rights (New York). She is Co-Chair of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea and has published several widely quoted articles on addressing human rights and humanitarian concerns in that country. She will serve as resource on areas of human security, humanitarian assistance and protection, R2P and North Korea.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Political Board
• Political Advisor in the Field of Peace - Building
• Security Advisor

Ferdinand von Habsburg-Lothringen is a political and security advisor in the area of peace-building and conflict transformation, with almost 20 years of practical field- and country-office experience in transitional, conflict and post-conflict relief and recovery environments in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. He has been an advisor, facilitator and trainer to a wide range of actors, from grassroots audiences to heads of government and senior UN and NGO management, and has served as a humanitarian field coordinator and a project coordinator to faith-based bodies in some of the hardest hit zones in Sudan during the second civil war. In recent years, he has served as Advisor to the Committee for National Healing, Peace and Reconciliation in South Sudan; an informal advisor to the Vice President of South Sudan and the Steering Committee guiding the ‘Road Map to Reconciliation and Good Governance in South Sudan'; and as Consultant to UNICEF South Sudan, in which capacity he designed UNICEF and the Ministry of General Education's ‘Peace-building and life skills programme'. Prior to that, Ferdinand served as Strategic Planning Advisor for UNDP to the Sudan Council of Churches peace and reconciliation process in Jonglei State and the Presidential Committee for Peace, Reconciliation and Tolerance in Jonglei State (2011-2012); as Advisor on Social Cohesion and Governance at the UN Resident Coordinator's Office in Maldives (2009-2011); and in various administrative and advisory capacities at UNDP in Southern Sudan from 2003 to 2009. He speaks a handful of languages including 3 European ones and 2 African ones, is married and is based in Nairobi with his family.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Political Board
• Member of Parliament for Stafford
• Member of Parliament for Stafford, UK

Jeremy Lefroy MP has been the Member of Parliament for Stafford (UK) since 2010, representing the Conservative Party. He previously served as Councillor and Cabinet Member for Resources in the Newcastle-under-Lyme Council. He is a member of the All Party Parliamentary Groups on Africa, Energy Studies, Food Security in the Developing World, Fuel Poverty, Global Security and Non-Proliferation, Great Lakes Region of Africa, Guinea-Bissau, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Interfaith, Overseas Development, Penal Reform, Prevention of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, and Zambia, as well as the Britain-Palestine, British-American and British Swiss Parliamentary Groups. He is also a member of the International Development Select Committee and has served on the Health and Social Care Bill Committee.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Political Board
• Member of Parliament for Wairarapa
• Member of Parliament for Wairarapa, New Zealand

John Hayes ONZM MP is the Member of Parliament for Wairarapa in the New Zealand Parliament, representing the New Zealand National Party. Hayes initially worked as an agricultural economist, before joining the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Within the New Zealand Foreign Service, he served as Representative to Singapore, India, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. He then served as New Zealand's High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea (1989-1993) and Ambassador to Iran (1993-1995). He also served as Principal Private Secretary to the Minister of Overseas Trade, Mike Moore. As High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea, Hayes played an active role alongside Don McKinnon, the former New Zealand Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, during the Bougainville conflict in the 1990s. He was involved in negotiations for setting up peace-talks by visiting leaders of the Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA) and of its affiliate the Bougainville Interim Government (BIG). He was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in recognition of his services to the Bougainville peace process.Within Parliament, Hayes currently serves as Parliamentary Private Secretary for Foreign Affairs, reporting to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Murray McCully. He also serves as Chairperson of the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee and a member of the Finance and Expenditure Committee. Formerly, he served as a member of the Government Administration Committee and the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee (where he also served as Chairperson).Outside of Parliament, Hayes is a trustee of the We The Peoples Foundation and the Bridget Nicholls Trust.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Political Board
• Member of Parliament for Barrow

John Woodcock was formally the member of Parliament for Barrow and Furness in Cumbria (UK). Between October 2010 and January 2013, he served as Shadow Minister for Transport; and since 2013, he has been a Member of the Defence Select Committee and a Member of the Public Bill Committee for the Defence Reform Act 2014. Between July 2011 and January 2013, he served as Chair of Labour Friends of Israel, and he is currently Chair of the Labour campaigning organisation Progress, the Vice-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Friends of Syria and a Commissioner of the All-Party Parliamentary Commission on Physical Activity. Previously, John served as a journalist at The Scotsman before serving as Special Adviser to Cabinet Minister, John Hutton MP, and the former Prime Minister, Gordon Brown. Ferdinand von Habsburg-Lothringen, Political advisor in the field of peace-building

Job Titles:

• Member of the Academic Board
• Member of the Advisory Board
• Member of the Political Board

Job Titles:

• Member of the Political Board
• Air Vice Marshal
• Air Vice Marshal ( Retired ), AVSM VSM

Air Vice Marshal Kapil Kak AVSM VSM served in the Indian Air Force for over three decades. He commanded an Operational Air Force Wing; and served as Directing Staff, and later Chief Instructor (Air), at the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington; India's Defence Attaché to Thailand; and Air Advisor to two successive Chiefs of the Indian Air Force. For distinguished service of exceptional order, the President of India awarded him the Ati Vishist Seva Medal and the Vishist Seva Medal. In recent years, Air Marshal Kapil Kak has authored around 50 book chapters and journal articles on a variety of strategic, national security, defence and air power issues, and edited the books India and Pakistan: Pathways Ahead (2007) and Comprehensive Security for an Emerging India (2010). He is a former Deputy Director at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses in New Delhi; Advisor (Strategic Studies) at the University of Jammu; and the Founder and Additional Director (2002-2012) of the Centre for Air Power Studies, New Delhi. He has represented India at a number of Track II conferences on international security and defence issues, and continues to be closely associated with the initiatives of many public policy think tanks on the India-Pakistan peace process and conflict resolution in Jammu and Kashmir. He is the Convener of the Indian delegation for the RAND Corporation-sponsored India-US Track II Biannual Dialogue on International Security and Air Power issues. He is also on the Board of Trustees of the Kashmir-based Centre for Peace and Development Initiatives and on the Board of Directors of the New Delhi-based Healing Minds Foundation.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Political Board

Lord Hannay entered the Foreign Office in 1959, with initial postings in Tehran and Kabul. From 1965 until the early-1970s, he was an official representative of the government in discussions that led to the UK's 1973 entry into the EEC. In the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, he served as the Head of the Middle East Department in 1979 and Assistant Under-Secretary of State for the European Community between 1979 and 1984. Later, he was a Minister at the British Embassy in Washington DC (1984-5), Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the European Economic Community (1985-1990), and Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, as also the UK's representative on the UN Security Council (1990-1995). He then served as the UK's Special Representative for Cyprus between 1996 and 2003, the Prime Minister's Personal Envoy to Turkey in 1998, and a member of the UN Secretary-General's High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change in 2003-2004. Following his admission to the House of Lords in 2001, he has been a member of the Arctic Committee, the Intergovernmental Organisations Committee, and the European Union Committee; and he is currently the Vice-Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group on the EU, Joint Convenor of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Global Security and Non-Proliferation, and Chairman of the UN All Party Parliamentary Group. He is currently a member of the Top Level Group on Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation. He is also a former Chairman of the Board of UNA-UK, a former member of the Council of Britain in Europe, and a former member of the TANGGUH Independent Advisory Panel.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Political Board
• Member of Parliament for Cowan, Australia

Luke Simpkins MP is the Federal Member of Parliament for Cowan in the Australian House of Representatives, representing the Liberal Party. He is in his third term, having been elected in 2007, 2010 and 2013. A former Major in the Australian Regular Army, he also served in the Australian Federal Police and represented Australia in in the sport of rowing. Since his election he has pursued his interests in foreign affairs, national security, immigration, human rights and the freedoms of speech, association and religion.He is the Chairman of the Human Rights Sub-Committee for the Joint Committee for Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade. He is also the Chairman of the Joint Committee for the National Capital & External Territories. He is now the Chair of the Parliamentary Friendship Groups for Australia with the Netherlands, with the Republic of Macedonia and with Poland.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Political Board

Meg Munn MP was formally the Member of Parliament for Sheffield Heeley in the UK Parliament since 2001. Following her election to Parliament, she served on the Education and Skills Select Committee and the Procedure Select Committee. Later, she served as Parliamentary Private Secretary at the Department for Education and Skills (2003-2005) and Minister for Women and Equality (2005-2007). She introduced civil partnerships into the UK in 2005, was responsible for the Equality Act 2006, was involved in the Work and Families Act 2006 and established the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). In 2007, she was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, with responsibility for the Overseas Territories, South East Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and the Caribbean and Central America. After standing down from government in 2008, Munn served as Chair and Vice-Chair of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy. She focused on the Middle East and North Africa, leading workshops and mentoring MPs in Egypt, Iraq Kurdistan, Morocco and Jordan. In Parliament, she is Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, the Child Protection APPG which she established, and the Methodist APPG. She is also Vice-Chair of the Women in Enterprise APPG, the Engineering and Information Technology APPG, the Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire APPG, and the Mexican APPG. She has also served as Chair of the Women's Committee of the Parliamentary Labour Party, Chair of the Parliamentary Co-operative Group, Vice-Chair of Labour Friends of Israel, Vice-Chair of Progress and Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Voice group.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Academic Board
• Professor of Disasters and Health at University College London, Englan
• Professor of Disasters and Health at University College London, England

Ilan Kelman is Professor of Disasters and Health at University College London, England and a Professor II at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway. His overall research interest is linking disasters and health, including the integration of climate change into disaster research and health research. That covers three main areas: (i) disaster diplomacy and health diplomacy; (ii) island sustainability involving safe and healthy communities in isolated locations; and (iii) risk education for health and disasters.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Academic Board
• Professor of International Relations
• Professor of International Relations, American University, Washington

Amitav Acharya is Professor of International Relations and the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance at the School of International Service, American University, Washington, D.C. He has held faculty appointments at York (Canada), Bristol (UK) and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and been awarded numerous fellowships and chairs around the world, most notably at Oxford (UK), Harvard (US), Rhodes (South Africa) and Malaya (Malaysia). During 2014-15, he serves as the President of the International Studies Association. Prof. Acharya is the author or editor of 25 books and over 200 journal or magazine articles, and his op-eds have featured in the Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, Huffington Post, Australian Financial Review, Times of India, Straits Times and numerous other publications. He has also appeared on BBC World, BBC World Service Radio, CNN, NPR, RTV, Al-Jazeera, CNBC, CTV, CBC Radio and Radio Australia.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Academic Board
• Professor in the History of European International Relations
• Professor in the History of European International Relations, University of Cambridge

Brendan Simms is Professor in the History of European International Relations at the University of Cambridge. He is the Director of the Centre of International Studies at Cambridge and a Fellow at Peterhouse. Previously, he served as Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford; Director of Studies in History at Peterhouse; and Lecturer and Reader at the Centre of International Studies, Cambridge. He has co-edited several volumes on foreign policy, including The Primacy of Foreign Policy in British History, 1660-2000 (Palgrave, 2010) and Humanitarian intervention: A History (Cambridge University Press, 2011). He is also the author of several books, including Unfinest hour: Britain and the destruction of Bosnia (Allen Lane, 2001), which was shortlisted for the BBC's Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2002, and Europe: The struggle for supremacy, 1453 to the present (Allen Lane, 2013), which was shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize. Simms has also served as Trustee of the Bosnian Institute (London), on the Executive Committee of the British-Irish Association, as Honorary Treasurer of the German History Society, as Member of the Military Education Committee at Cambridge and on the Academic Advisory Council of the Military-historical Research Institute in Potsdam. He has also been a member of the Strategic Advisory Panel of the Chief of the Defence Staff between 2010 and 2013, a Nobel Fellow in Oslo in 2012 and a Fellow of the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung in Munich in 2012-2013. He has been involved in policy work through the (Conservative) BOW Group and the (Labour) Foreign Policy Centre. He is Co-president of the Henry Jackson Society and founder of the Project for Democratic Union. Simms has spoken on BBC 4, BBC World Service, RTE and numerous Balkan radio programmes and has been interviewed by The Times, Der Spiegel and various Balkan newspapers. He has also written numerous articles and reviews for the Times Higher Educational Supplement, Observer, Sunday Times, Sunday Telegraph, Spectator, The Times, Independent, Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Evening Standard, London Review of Books and Wall Street Journal.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Academic Board
• Assistant Professor of Public Policy in the Department
• Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Northeastern University

Max Abrahms is Assistant Professor of Public Policy in the Department of Political Science at Northeastern University. He is also a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has served as a Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He received his PhD from UCLA and has held fellowships at the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point Military Academy, the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College, the Empirical Studies of Conflict project at Princeton University and the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. Abrahms is a frequent terrorism analyst on Al Jazeera America, BBC, and many other international news outlets.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Academic Board
• Adjunct Professor at the School of International and Public
• Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

Naomi Weinberger, Ph.D., is Adjunct Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) of Columbia University. Her primary academic interests are in international security studies, with expertise in the Middle East. She previously served as Director of the UN Studies program at SIPA, and offers an annual course on global governance at Columbia's Picker Center for Executive Education. Dr. Weinberger is the author of Syrian Intervention in Lebanon (Oxford University Press) and many articles on global peace operations and conflict resolution. Currently, she is pursuing research on Palestinian security sector reform and on the regional implications of the Arab spring. She advocates effective multilateral responses to global challenges, including humanitarian emergencies.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Academic Board
• Chairman of the United States Commission
• McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University

Robert P. George is Chairman of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. He is also McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Founder and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. In 2012-13, he was a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. He previously served on the US President's Council on Bioethics (2002-2009), and as a presidential appointee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights (1993-1998). He has also served on UNESCO's World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology. He is a former Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States, where he received the Justice Tom C. Clark Award. Professor George is author of Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Moralit y (1993), In Defense of Natural Law (1999), The Clash of Orthodoxies (2001) and Conscience and Its Enemies (2013). He has also co-authored and edited numerous volumes, and his articles and review essays have appeared in the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Columbia Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, the Review of Politics, the Review of Metaphysics, and the American Journal of Jurisprudence. He has also written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, National Review, First Things, the Boston Review, City Journal, and the Times Literary Supplement. Among his awards are the United States Presidential Citizens Medal, the Honorific Medal for the Defense of Human Rights of the Republic of Poland, the Bradley Prize for Intellectual and Civic Achievement, the Philip Merrill Award of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, the Sidney Hook Memorial Award of the National Association of Scholars, the Paul Bator Award of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy, a Silver Gavel Award of the American Bar Association, and the Stanley Kelley, Jr. Teaching Award in Politics at Princeton. He was the 2007 John Dewey Lecturer in Philosophy of Law at Harvard, the 2008 Judge Guido Calabresi Lecturer at Yale, the 2008 Sir Malcolm Knox Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and the 2010 Frank Irvine Lecturer in Law at Cornell.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Academic Board
• Professor of Political Science at the National University
• Professor of Political Science, the National University of Singapore

Terry Nardin is Professor of Political Science at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of Law, Morality, and the Relations of States (Princeton, 1983) and The Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott (Penn State, 2001), and editor or co-editor of many volumes including Traditions of International Ethics (Cambridge, 1992), The Ethics of War and Peace (Princeton, 1996), International Relations in Political Thought (Cambridge, 2002), Humanitarian Intervention (Nomos, 2006), and Michael Oakeshott's Cold War Liberalism (Asan Institute). He has contributed to The Oxford Handbook of International Relations (2008), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Political Philosophy (2011), and The Oxford Handbook of Classics in Contemporary Political Theory (2015), as well as The Cambridge Companion to Oakeshott (2012) and Theories of International Relations, 5th edition (Palgrave 2013). His most recent articles have appeared in History of European Ideas, Ethics and International Affairs, Review of International Studies, European Journal of International Law, and other journals. He has been a Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellow, a Visiting Scholar in the Center for European Studies at Harvard, a Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and a Visiting Canterbury Fellow at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch. He is a member of the editorial boards of American Political Science Review, Ethics and International Affairs, International Studies Review, Journal of International Political Theory, and Global Discourse.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Academic Board
• Professor at the Joseph Korbel School of International Studies
• Professor of International Studies, University of Denver

Tom Farer is University Professor at the Joseph Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, where he served as Dean prior. He previously served as President of the University of New Mexico and as a two-term member and two-term President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States, the first U.S. citizen ever to be elected to head a principal organ of the OAS. In the U.S. Government, he has worked in the Departments of State and Defense. He also served as legal consultant for the 1993 UN operation in Somalia. He has taught law at Columbia, Rutgers, Tulane, Harvard and American Universities and foreign policy or international relations at Cambridge, Princeton and Johns Hopkins. He is on the editorial boards of the American Journal of International Law and the Human Rights Quarterly, on the editorial advisory boards of the Chinese Journal of International Law and The International Spectator, and formerly served as co-editor of Global Governance. He has published twelve books and monographs and has contributed to the New York Review of Books, London Review of Books, World Politics, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The International Spectator, Harvard and Columbia Law Reviews, Human Rights Quarterly and the Oxford Manual of Diplomacy. His recent books include Transnational Crime in the Americas (1999) and Confronting Global Terrorism and American Neo-Conservatism: The Framework of a Liberal Grand Strategy (2008).

Job Titles:

• Member of the Board of Directors
• Deputy Director of the HSC

Simon Schofield is a Deputy Director of the HSC. Simon is a Conservative activist with extensive experience working both in Parliament for an MP and also as a political adviser in local government, having graduated with First Class Honours in British Politics and Legislative Studies at the University of Hull. A veteran campaigner, Simon has been a part of several successful campaign teams including Matthew Grove's successful bid for Humberside Police and Crime Commissioner. His main research interests lie in the fields of national security, intelligence and counterterrorism, having carried out research into drone attacks and targeted killing as counterterrorism policies and completing a dissertation on nuclear terrorism.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Political Board
• Member of Parliament for Melbourne Ports, Australia