Professor of Economics, Skidmore College I grew up in Hamburg, northern Germany, and have studied and worked in six countries, including South Africa, Italy, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Before and during my studies of economics at three different universities I gathered a number of years of work experience in the financial services industry (insurance, pension fund, and banking). Degrees B. Com. Hons. (Econ), University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa 1991 Diplom-Volkswirt, University of Hamburg, Germany 1992 M. Phil. (Econ), University of Cambridge, United Kingdom 1993 Ph. D. (Econ), University of Cambridge, United Kingdom 1996 Habilitation, University of Hamburg, Germany 2004 Previous teaching positions Undergraduate supervisor, various Cambridge Colleges, U.K. 1993-96 Temporary Lecturer, University of Cambridge, U.K. 1995-96 Assistant Professor, University of Hamburg, Germany 1996-2004 Guest Professor, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy 2003 Assistant Professor, Franklin College, Switzerland 2004-2006
Doctoral Candidate, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford Josh Ettinger is a doctoral candidate at the University of Oxford's School of Geography and the Environment, where his interdisciplinary research focuses on extreme weather events and climate change communication. He has previously worked at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Stockholm Environment Institute, Global Canopy, and on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. He holds an MSc in Environmental Change and Management from Oxford’s School of Geography and the Environment and a BA in Global Studies, Geography, and Philosophy from Hofstra University Honors College in New York. He also previously worked as a production intern at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and is passionate about the role of storytelling in engaging audiences about societal issues.
Professor of Law, University of Virginia Julia D. Mahoney teaches courses in property, government finance, constitutional law and nonprofit organizations. A graduate of Yale Law School, she joined the University of Virginia faculty as an associate professor in 1999 and is now John S. Battle Professor of Law. She has also taught at the University of Southern California Law School and the University of Chicago Law School, and before entering the legal academy, practiced law at the New York firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Her scholarly articles include works on land preservation, eminent domain, health care reform and property rights in human biological materials. The courses she teaches include Property, Constitutional Law, Feminism and the Free Market, and Nonprofit Organizations.
Associate Professor, Asia-Pacific security, University of Sydney Associate Professor Yuan specializes in Asia-Pacific security, Chinese defence and foreign policy, and global and regional arms control and non-proliferation issues. A graduate of the Xi'an Foreign Language University, People's Republic of China (1982), he received his Ph.D. in political science from Queen's University in 1995 and has had research and teaching appointments at Queen's University, York University, the University of Toronto, and the University of British Columbia, where he was a recipient of the prestigious Iaazk Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. He is the co-author of China and India: Cooperation or Conflict? (Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003) and his publications have appeared in Asian Survey, Contemporary Security Studies, Far Eastern Economic Review, The Hindu, Japan Times, International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Nonproliferation Review, South China Morning Post, Washington Quarterly, among others. He is currently working on a book manuscript on post-Cold War Chinese security policy. Prior to joining CISS, Dr. Yuan served as Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program, and was Associate Professor of International Policy Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, a graduate school of Middlebury College. In July-August 2009, he was a visiting senior research fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore.
PhD candidate in Communication Studies, Concordia University BA Political Science from Free University Berlin, 2011 MA Political Science from Free University Berlin, 2014 Communication strategist and copywriter/editor at FLMH Labor für Politik und Kommunikation, Berlin PhD student at Concordia University, Montreal (since 2019, candidacy since November 2022)
PhD researcher, University of Southern Queensland Jessica Heim is currently undertaking PhD studies on light pollution, megaconstellations, and ethics.
