Hugh Breakey is a Research Fellow at Griffith University’s Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law. His work stretches across the philosophical subdisciplines of political philosophy, normative ethics, moral psychology, governance studies and applied philosophy. He is the author of 'Intellectual Liberty: Natural Rights and Intellectual Property' (Ashgate) and the co-author (alongside Charles Sampford and Ramesh Thakur) of 'Enhancing Protection Capacity: Policy Guide to the Responsibility to Protect and the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflicts'. His works explore the ethical challenges arising in such diverse fields as peacekeeping, institutional governance, climate change, sustainable tourism, private property, medicine, and international law, published in journals including The Philosophical Quarterly, The Modern Law Review and Political Studies. He has taught philosophy and ethics at the University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology and Bond University. Since 2013, Hugh has served as President of the Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics. He is currently working on two federally funded research projects, one on professionalization of the financial services industry, and the other on the integrity of the global climate regime.
Hans Westerbeek is Professor of Sport Business and Dean of the College of Sport and Exercise Science, incorporating the Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living (ISEAL) at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia. He also holds an appointment as Chair of Sport Management at the Free University of Brussels (Belgium) and as Professor of Sport Business as the Real Madrid Graduate School (Spain). Previously he was Head of the School of Sport, Tourism and Hospitality Management and Professor of Sport Management at La Trobe University in Melbourne. Prior to his academic appointments he worked as an academic and consultant in the fields of international marketing and sport business. Hans has consulted to professional sport organisations, (inter)national and state sport associations, and local and state government in multiple countries, such as FIFA, IMG, Giro d'Italia, Sport Business Group, the governments of the United Arab Emirates, New Zealand, Australia and the Netherlands and Saujana Limited Group (Malaysia). He has written 23 books on sport management, sport marketing and sport business related topics and he frequently consulted by the international media as a sport business expert.
Dr Humeira Iqtidar joined King's College London in 2011. She has studied at the University of Cambridge (UK), McGill University (Canada) and Quaid-e-Azam University (Pakistan). Before joining King's, Humeira was based at the University of Cambridge as a fellow of King’s College and the Centre of South Asian Studies. Humeira is a Lecturer in Politics of South Asia. She is also the Principal Investigator on the Tolerance in Contemporary Muslim Politics: Political Theory beyond the West project and Co-Convenor for the London Comparative Political Theory Workshop. Research Humeira’s research is concerned with exploring the contours of social and political theory particularly in the South Asian context. She is interested in the shifting demarcations of state and market, society and economy, secularism and secularization. She has carried out ethnographic research with two Islamist parties in Pakistan, Jamaat-e-Islami and Jamaat-ud-Dawa for her previous research project. Currently her research has two key strands. One explores ideas and practices related to tolerance within the Pakistani context. The other engages with the relationship between liberalization and piety in both UK and Pakistan. Humeira's research has featured in interviews and articles in The Guardian, BBC World Service, Voice of America, Der Spiegel, Social Science Research Council Online, The Dawn, Express Tribune and Open Democracy.
Dr Hugh Hunt is a Reader in Cambridge University's Engineering Department and recipient of the Royal Academy of Engineering Rooke Award for the public promotion of engineering. His research interests include railway noise and vibration, gyroscopes and boomerangs, wave power, vibration of bell towers, and renewable energy. He is Keeper of the Clock at Trinity College Cambridge. His television documentaries on Channel 4 (UK), PBS Nova (USA), Discovery, History Channel, SBS (Australia) include: 2011 Dambusters, building the Bouncing bomb (Bombing Hitler's Dams) 2012 Escape from Colditz (Escape from Nazi Alcatraz) 2012 Digging the Great Escape 2013 Zeppelin Terror Attack 2014 D-day 360 2015 Building Hitler's Supergun: The Plot to Destroy London.
Dr. Hans (J.P.) Vollaard is a lecturer of Dutch and European Politics at the Institute of Political Science since 2007. Before that he studied Political Science and was a PhD candidate at the same institute. His PhD research project explored changing political territoriality in the European Union. His other fields of interests are Euroscepticism in the Netherlands and Christians in (Dutch) politics.
