Professor of Law, Wake Forest University Christine Nero Coughlin is a Professor of at the Wake Forest University School of Law. She also has faculty appointments at the Wake Forest University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Wake Forest University School of Medicine's Translational Science Institute. In addition, she is a core faculty member in the Wake Forest University Center for Bioethics, Health and Society. She is the recipient of the Legal Writing Institute's Mary S. Lawrence Award, the Wake Forest University Teaching and Learning Center's Teaching Innovation Award, the Joseph Branch Award for Excellence in Teaching, and a multi-time recipient of the Graham Award for Excellence in Teaching Legal Research and Writing. Her teaching and scholarship are concentrated in the areas of legal analysis and writing, bioethics, and health care law. She has written over a dozen law review articles and essays, is the co-author of several leading law school textbooks, and frequently pens op-eds and guest blog posts. She is a member of the American Law Institute (ALI).
Energy Economist, University of Surrey Dr Nakhle is an internationally recognised authority on the interplay between economics, energy, governance and geopolitics. With a unique breadth of experience gained from working across a wide spectrum of stakeholders, Dr Nakhle worked with major energy companies (Eni and Statoil) at the executive level, governments and policy makers (including Special Parliamentary Advisor in the UK), international organisations (Commonwealth Secretariat, IMF, United Nations and World Bank), as well as academic institutions and specialised think tanks on a global scale. Dr Nakhle is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Crystol Energy, an advisory, research and training firm, which received several awards including Best Independent Energy Consultancy in the UK in 2018 and again in 2021. She also sits on the Governing Board of the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) and is a Member of its Audit and Finance Committee. She is also Member of the Advisory Boards of the Middle East Institute and Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines. She is a program advisor to the Washington based International Tax and Investment Centre and Lead Energy Expert with the Geopolitical Intelligence Services. Dr Nakhle has played an integral part in the OECD Policy Dialogue on Natural Resource-based Development and has contributed to the development of the organisation’s Principles for Durable Extractive Contracts. She has lectured at leading academic institutions, including: the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University, University of Surrey in the UK, The Graduate Institute in Geneva, Saint Joseph University in Lebanon, The National Defense University in the USA and Nato Strategic Direction South Hub in Italy. Her views are highly regarded. She has published extensively in academic journals, newspapers and magazines and acts as a Reviewer to leading academic journals. She is an avid commentator on energy in the international media and at major conferences and industry gatherings. She has appeared on Al Arabiyya, Al Jazeera, BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, CNN, Africa News, France 24, and Sky News to name but a few, and was quoted in leading newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal. She is also the author of two widely acclaimed books: Petroleum Taxation: Sharing the Wealth published in 2008 and re-printed in 2012 and used as primary reference in leading universities and industry training courses; and Out of the Energy Labyrinth (2007), co-authored with Lord David Howell, former Secretary of State for Energy in the UK. Dr Nakhle has worked on projects in many countries, collaborating closely with host governments, ministries, and parliaments, in addition to the private sector and civic society. She has also been on exploratory visits to the Arctic (organised by the Norwegian Government) and the North Sea. She is fluent in Arabic, English and French. In 2017, she gave evidence to the International Relations Committee at the UK Parliament on the transformation of power in the Middle East and implications for UK policy. An avid supporter of gender balance, in 2007, she founded the not-for-profit organisation ‘Access for Women in Energy’, with the aim of promoting the development of women in the energy sector. She has also supported the development of similar initiatives in Ghana, Tunisia and the UAE, where she sits on ADIPEC’s Advisory Board for Inclusion and Diversity. In 2022, Dr Nakhle featured in the ‘Top 22 Outstanding Women CEOs of 2022’ published by the New York based The Women Leaders. A year earlier, she was selected ‘CEO of the Year’ in the UK, by CEO Monthly Magazine. In 2020, she was awarded the prestigious Fellowship of the Energy Institute and featured on the Energy Council’s list of Top Female Executives in the global energy industry. In 2017, she received the Honorary Professional Recognition Award from the Tunisian Minister of Energy, Mines & Renewable Energy.
Assistant Professor, Research Centre for Business in Society, Coventry University I am an experienced researcher, whose interests include adoption and use of data by organisations and individuals, business ethics and policy analysis. My passion is to understand complex phenomena and to distil them into nuanced strategic insights for organisations. My current focus is on the role of data as a mechanism for addressing interlocking social, environmental and health challenges. I have a background in Social Psychology and Economics, and in the past I worked in the Marketing Research industry. I have led cross-European consortia in extensive policy analysis projects, with a focus on learning best practice and knowledge transfer across countries. My research has informed decision-making for organisations such as large NGOs, a large UK supermarket chain, the UK’s jewellery industry and Coventry City Council. I have also consulted with the Estonian and Latvian governments on how to promote cooperation in their respective regional policies. I have been invited to present my findings to the European Committee of Regions, and have produced briefing papers for the European Commission in preparation for the European Union’s post-2020 Regional Policy.
Senior Pathologist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases Caroline Maluleka is a senior pathologist at the Centre for Healthcare-Associated Infections, Antimicrobial Resistance and Mycoses (CHARM) at South Africa' National Institute for communicable diseases.
Senior Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University Caroline Light is a Senior Lecturer and the Director of Undergraduate Studies in WGS. Her research explores histories of citizenship and belonging, and the ways in which white supremacy, (hetero)sexism, and classism shape collective (mis)memory and archival silence. Light's first book, That Pride of Race and Character: the Roots of Jewish Benevolence in the Jim Crow South (NYU Press, 2014) illuminates the experience of southern Jewish assimilation through the lens of benevolent uplift. She illuminates the gendered and racialized performances of elite, white cultural capital as a critical mode of survival for a racially liminal community of southerners. Stand Your Ground: A History of America’s Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense (Beacon Press, 2017) provides a critical genealogy of our nation’s ideals of armed citizenship. Beginning with the centuries-old adage “a man’s home is his castle,” she tracks the history of our nation’s relationship to lethal self-defense, from the duty to retreat to the “shoot first, ask questions later” ethos that prevails in many jurisdictions today. Ultimately, she contends that the contemporary appeal to “stand your ground” masks its exclusionary commitment to security for the few at the expense of the many.
Senior Academic Associate, Africa Center for Strategic Studies Carl Pilgram is a Senior Academic Associate at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies in the National Defense University, where he has worked since 2017. In this capacity he supports the design and delivery of programs to improve the provision of security in African partners at the executive education and strategic level. He is currently supporting the Counter-Terrorism and Countering Violent Extremism portfolios, and has previously worked the Countering Transnational Organized Crime, Maritime Safety and Security, and National Security Strategy Development lines. He is a passionate and longtime researcher of African politics and security, as well as intrastate conflict and authoritarian dynamics. He has lived and worked in Kenya. He holds an MA in Security Studies from the Georgetown Security Studies Program and a BA from Washington University in St. Louis. The views expressed are those of the authors alone and not those of the US Government or the Department of Defense.
