Contributors

Timothy Gould

Lecturer in Physics, Griffith University Computational quantum physicist interested in hard problems like dispersion forces and strong correlation. Especially interested in the intersection of mathematics, chemistry and physics, and the practical role played by formal theory.

Lucas Davis

Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley Lucas Davis is an Associate Professor at the Haas School of Business and Faculty Director at the Energy Institute at Haas. Prior to joining Haas in 2009, he was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on energy and environmental markets, and in particular, on electricity and natural gas regulation, pricing in competitive and non-competitive markets, and the economic and business impacts of environmental policy. His work appears in leading academic journals including the American Economic Review, the RAND Journal of Economics, and the Journal of Political Economy.

Nick Fischer

Adjunct Research Fellow, Monash University Nick Fischer is Adjunct Research Fellow in the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies at Monash University, and the author of "Spider Web: The Birth of American Anticommunism", published by University of Illinois Press (2016)

Jennifer Mercieca

Associate Professor of Communication and Director of the Aggie Agora, Texas A&M University Jennifer Mercieca is an historian of American political discourse, especially discourses about citizenship, democracy, and the presidency. Her scholarship combines American history with rhetorical and political theory in an effort to understand democratic practices. She argues that current views of citizenship rely upon the tragic and ironic views, which do not enable citizens to act to control their government. Her presidency research argues that we have heroic expectations for the presidency that are both unrealistic and unconstitutional and that these expectations burden the presidency. She is the author of Founding Fictions and the co-Editor of The Rhetoric of Heroic Expectations: Establishing the Obama Presidency. Her essays have appeared in scholarly journals like Rhetoric & Public Affairs, The Quarterly Journal of Speech, and Presidential Studies Quarterly. Dr. Mercieca teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on Political Communication, Presidential Rhetoric, Activism, Citizenship & the Public Sphere, Social Movements, Rhetorical Theory, and the History of American Public Discourse. Dr. Mercieca frequently appears as an expert commentator and as a consultant for news stories.

Phelim Kine

Adjunct professor, Roosevelt Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, City University of New York Phelim Kine is an adjunct faculty member in the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College at the City University of New York. He lectures on human rights developments and challenges in Asia. Mr. Kine is also Deputy Asia Director at Human Rights Watch in New York where he supervises the organization’s work on Indonesia, Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Philippines.

Gabriele Suder

Principal Fellow, Faculty of Business & Economics/Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne Prof Gabriele Suder is Principal Fellow at FBE/Melbourne Business School. She is expert at the European Union, UNCTAD and JETRO (IDE). She has also served as professor of International Business at SKEMA Business School and as visiting fellow or expert at other leading business schools including the Australian National University (ANU/ANUCES) and Aalto University, and for ESCP Europe, GGS and other leading universities. Gabriele is Director, International Relations, at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her work has been presented at venues reaching from Harvard Kennedy School to the United States Congress, UNCTAD, OECD, WEF and the European Commission. She has been working with and advising multinationals (in particular, in the IT, automobile and engineering sectors) as well as numerous SMEs in this field, from the USA to India and China, from Finland to Japan and Australia. She is author of ten international business books, that have won several book awards. She is also author of award-winning case studies, media and research articles, and of the YouTube/DailyMotion video series 'Doing Business in Europe' and the iTunes series 'Multicultural Management'. Her main research interests focus on internationalisation, regionalisation/market integration impacts on corporate location strategy, LoF and public affairs management. She has published in media including Le Figaro, Business Week, The Japan Times and The Hindu, and speaks at live TV debates such as "Ce Soir ou jamais" (France 3). Professor Suder is known for her avant-gardist research into the impact of global crisis on international business strategy. She has conducted research projects studying the impact of terrorism, in Europe, the USA and Afghanistan.