
Andrew F. Cooper is University Research Chair, Department of Political Science, and Professor, Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo, Canada. He held leading positions and was fellow at The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), University of Southern California, and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada. He served on the Editorial Boards of the Hague Journal of Diplomacy, Foreign Policy Analysis, and International Studies Perspectives. In 2019, he was the first recipient of the Distinguished Studies Award, Diplomatic Studies Section, International Studies Association. He has written and edited numerous books including The Concertation Impulse in World Politics: Contestation over Fundamental Institutions and the Constrictions of Institutionalist International Relations (OUP, 2024) and the Oxford Handbook of Diplomacy (2013). His scholarly work has appeared in a wide number of prestigious journals such as International Organization, International Affairs, World Development, and International Studies Review, and also been profiled via media outlets around the world. His publications related to IDEoPOPfocus on the impact of populism on public diplomacy and career diplomats.

Mônica Herz is a professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro Institute of International Relations. She has a PHD degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science and has written books, chapters and articles about Latin American Security, regional and global governance and Brazilian foreign Policy.

Juliet Kaarbo is Professor in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews. She co-founded the Scottish Council of Global Affairs and Edinburgh’s Centre for Security Research. Julie previously held posts at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Kansas and the Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva). Her research on leader personality, foreign policy decision making, group dynamics, parliaments and parties, and national roles has appeared in numerous high-ranking journals such as International Affairs, International Studies Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, and Political Psychology. Her books and co-edited volumes include Coalition Politics and Cabinet Decision Making: A Comparative Analysis of Foreign Policy Choices (University of Michigan Press 2012)and The Oxford Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis (2024).
Julie served as Associate Editor of the journals Foreign Policy Analysis and British Journal of Politics and International Relations. She was the 2018 Distinguished Scholar of Foreign Policy Analysis in the International Studies Association (ISA) and was elected as ISA Vice President (2022-23). She was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship for 2023-25and has repeatedly served as an expert parliamentary testimony on topics including the international dimensions of Scottish independence and Brexit.

Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser is a Full Professor at the Institute of Political Science at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, an Associate Researcher at the Centre for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (COES), and the Director of the Laboratory for the Study of the Far Right (Ultra-Lab). He has published extensively on populism from a comparative perspective and is currently conducting research on the far-right in Latin America within a broader comparative framework.

Andrea Pető is a historian and a Professor at the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University, Vienna, Austria, a Research Affiliate of the CEU Democracy Institute, Budapest, and a Doctor of Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Her works on gender, politics, Holocaust, and war have been translated into 24 languages. In 2018 she was awarded the 2018 All European Academies (ALLEA) Madame de Staël Prize for Cultural Values and the 2022 University of Oslo Human Rights Award. She is Doctor Honoris Causa of Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden. Recent publications include The Women of the Arrow Cross Party. Invisible Hungarian Perpetrators in the Second World War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and Forgotten Massacre: Budapest 1944 (DeGruyter, 2021). The much contested category of gender is central to her work and engagement as a researcher, teacher, and feminist public intellectual, for instance by analyzing and debating the relationship between illiberalism and the many anti-gender campaigns targeting higher education, gender studies and gender scholars. Andrea Petö has been tireless in speaking out on the importance of historical knowledge and a sustained conversation in the public sphere in creating sustainable and democratic societies where human rights are at the core.

Cameron G. Thies is Dean of James Madison College and MSU Foundation Professor at Michigan State University. Thies is a scholar of international relations who has published broadly in foreign policy analysis, conflict processes, international political economy, and international relations theory. He is currently a co-investigator on a Department of Defense Minerva Research Initiative project entitled “Chinese Economic Power and the Effects of U.S. Economic Interdependence.” He has previously served as Editor of Political Science Research & Methods and Foreign Policy Analysis, and Deputy Lead Editor of the Journal of Politics. He was named the Distinguished Scholar of Foreign Policy Analysis (2016), the Quincy Wright Distinguished Scholar (2017), and the Ole R. Holsti Distinguished Scholar (2020) of the International Studies Association. Thies also served as the President of the International Studies Association (2019-2020).