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Anti-Corruption, Accountability & Field-Based Inquiry Andrea De Tommaso is a Senior International Consultant and multilingual investigator with over 17 years of experience leading complex inquiries into corruption, fraud, organized crime, and financial misconduct. A former senior officer in the Italian Financial Police (Guardia di Finanza), he directed anti-mafia, counter-terrorism financing, and financial crime units, collaborating […]
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International Security and Strategic Competition Christopher Ford is a professor with Missouri State University’s School of Defense and Strategic Studies, a Distinguished Visiting Fellow with the Pharos Foundation at Oxford, and serves on the Advisory Board of the American Foreign Policy Council and George Mason University’s National Security Institute. Dr Ford was previously a Visiting […]
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Fraud, corruption and economic crime As a UK barrister, Duncan started prosecuting corporate offences at DTI and SFO, then moved to World Bank, Washington DC. He later joined EIB, Luxembourg, advising on deterrence, prevention and training whilst negotiating settlements (eg. with Siemens and Alstom). He took early retirement in 2023. Promoting integrity is fundamental – Duncan has worked with public and commercial organisations, including other MDBs, UN and aid agencies, […]
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Religion and Society Rupert Shortt is a bestselling author and Research Associate at the Von Hügel Institute, University of Cambridge. He was Religion Editor of The Times Literary Supplement from 2000 to 2020 and has written for a range of publications, including The Guardian, FT, Daily Telegraph, Tablet and Spectator. His books include Benedict XVI (2005), Christianophobia: A Faith Under Attack (2012), Rowan’s Rule: The Biography of the […]
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South American political economy and development Dr Christopher Wylde is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at St Mary’s University, Twickenham. He has written extensively on South American political economy and development trajectories, including two research monographs: Latin America After Neoliberalism and Emerging Markets and the State, written after several years in the […]
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Peacebuilding, relief work and reconstruction Sir Charles Petrie Bt, OBE, having acquired an MBA at INSEAD and following a short stint as an investment banker, has had close to 30 years’ experience working in contexts of conflict and famine, much of it within the UN system. With the UN, he has assumed senior level operational […]
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Leadership, conflict and strategy After 34 years in the Army, Rob is now Chief Executive Officer of AGL Communication, a leadership communication coaching and training company in London. Educated at Cambridge University (History) and Kings College London (Defence Studies), Rob was commissioned into the Royal Green Jackets in 1988, which became The Rifles in 2007. A […]
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The Middle East and North Africa, Women and conflict, Sectarianism in Syria Dr Rahaf Aldoughli is an esteemed academic who holds the position of lecturer at Lancaster University, where she specializes in the field of Middle East and North African studies. In addition to her academic position, she holds the position of Director of Research […]
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Constitutional Law and Freedom of Speech Professor Adam Tomkins started his academic career in 1991 at King’s College London, before moving to Oxford, where he was a fellow at St Catherine’s College. He took up the John Millar Chair of Public Law at the University of Glasgow in 2003. From 2009-15 he was the legal […]
Continue ReadingMiddle Eastern politics and international relations Haian Dukhan is a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Teesside University, England and is a Fellow of the Centre for Syrian Studies at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. In 2017, Haian earned a PhD in International Relations from the University of St Andrews. His doctoral research […]
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