Politics

Author of two New York Times bestsellers – «Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?» and «So Here’s the Thing» – and co-host of Hysteria, a podcast produced exclusively by women at Crooked Media. Between 2022 and 2014, she was Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations at the White House. She previously held various positions in President Barak Obama's administration, in the areas of campaigns, political action and the Senate office.
She was Chief Operating Officer of Vice Media, President of Global Communications and Strategy at A&E Networks. She currently serves on the boards of the nonpartisan voter registration organisation, Headcount, the Honors College at the University of Vermont, and the Board of Visitors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Specialist in International Relations, professor and researcher at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He was a professor at the University of Coimbra (Portugal). He did a Master’s degree in International Politics at the University of Aberystwyth (UK). He holds a PhD in Critical Security Studies, also from Aberystwyth, with a thesis on the reform of police forces as a US foreign policy tool in the context of post-conflict state-building. He was a researcher at the Centre for Global Studies at George Mason University in Washington.

Last updated: March 2023

PhD candidate at the Institute of Social Sciences-UL, with research that seeks to understand and explain the impact of transition to democracy models on the formation and development of the partisan right in Portugal and Spain.

Last updated: March 2023

Professor of Political Science at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (CERI Sciences Po) in Paris.
A senior researcher in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, he is also co-director of the Oxford Martin Programme on African Governance.
Soares de Oliveira has conducted extensive fieldwork on the international political economy of African states, focusing on extractive industries, the financial sector, conflict and post-conflict reconstruction and Afro-Asian relations. He is the author of several books.

Last updated: November 2025