Melanie has been teaching on international conflict resolution and international security at UCL since 2010. She provides practical insights and thought leadership for policymakers across the full spectrum of cyber policy, tech geopolitics, and defence innovation challenges. Melanie is an accredited mediator and regularly provides commentary on geopolitics and tech in podcasts, webinars and at major media outlets including Bloomberg, BBC, Sky, CNBC, CNN, Fox News, France 24, and DeutscheWelle.

Broadcaster & Financial Analyst

Chris Christou is a writer, educational curator, and activist. In 2021, alongside friends and strangers, he organized and launched the End of Tourism Podcast.

Senior Economist, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change

Professor of Digital Communication and Director of the QUT Digital Media Research Centre. Cyclist, beer brewer, nerd, community advocate.

Founder & Director of the Unplugged Coalition. Former Special Adviser to PM on Business, Regulation and Energy Policy.

Juliet is the international founder and director of vegan campaigning charity Viva! and its sister groups, Viva! Poland and Viva! Uganda.

Research Fellow and Coordinator, Military Transformations Programme at RSIS, Rajaratnam School of International Studies

Mark is Director at MiHi digital and Visit Cornwall, with more than a decade of tourism marketing experience.

Nels Abbey is an author, broadcaster and the founder of Uppity: the Intellectual Playground. His latest book is The Hip-Hop MBA: Lessons in Cut-Throat Capitalism From The Moguls of Rap

Internationally recognized NYU developmental psychologist Dr. Niobe Way has spent nearly 40 years conducting empirical studies with teenagers, particularly boys and young men from diverse backgrounds.

Honorary Research Fellow in the Philosophy Department, UCL. Nick is a philosopher who works mostly on meta-normative issues, especially in moral philosophy and aesthetics, but also works in epistemology, metaphysics and other areas of philosophy.

Richard V. Reeves is a public intellectual, best-selling author, and influential social commentator whose work centers on two vital questions: Where do inequalities persist in society today, and how can we most effectively address them?