He is a leading expert on Russian politics and security, specialising in non-military conflicts, intelligence services and crime.
Director of the Mayak Intelligence consultancy in London, he is an honorary professor at University College London and has lectured at universities in the USA, the Czech Republic and Russia. With a PhD in Politics from the LSE and a degree in History from Robinson College, Cambridge, he is a consultant to various bodies and NGOs linked to the UK government and NATO.
His most recent books include «The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia» (Yale, 2018), «Russian Political War (Routledge, 2019), «We Need to Talk About Putin» (Ebury, 2019) and «The Weaponization of Everything» (Yale, 2022).
He heads the Department of Political Science at Rutgers University, where he teaches political science and law. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, he is a regular commentator on EU affairs in the American and international media.
He served as Professor of Politics at Lincoln College, Oxford University. He has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, a visiting professor at Princeton University's Law and Home Affairs Program and a professor at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels.
He has a master’s degree in legal and political sciences and a law degree. A professional lawyer with over 15 years’ experience, he has also been a member of Parliament (2011-2013) and Secretary of State for Tourism (2013-2015). Furthermore, he served as vice-president of the CDS-PP (2016-2019). He has been a commentator and columnist for SIC, TSF, Visão, Jornal de Negócios, Diário de Notícias and i.
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.
President of the European Parliament. In Brussels, she also serves as Head of Delegation for Malta’s Nationalist Party, one of the political forces that make up the European People's Party Group.
She graduated in 2003, the year Malta, where she was born, joined the EU. She is a lawyer, specialising in law and European politics.
She was elected as an MEP for the first time in 2013, becoming the first Maltese woman to win a mandate, which she went on to secure in all subsequent elections (2014 and 2019).
Between 2020 and 2022, Metsola was Vice-President of the European Parliament, during which time she was also responsible for relations with national parliaments and for interreligious and non-confessional dialogue.
A former CIA director and four-star general (retired), he served in the US army for 37 years, participating in missions in Cold War Europe, the US, Central America, Haiti, Bosnia, Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan and the Middle East.
He then joined the firm KKR (in 2013) as president of the KKR Global Institute, which supports investment processes by following geopolitical, macroeconomic, environmental, social and governance trends. A year later, he was made a partner.
He is Professor of Public Policy at CUNY's Macaulay Honors College, Lecturer at the University of Southern California and a non-resident Senior Fellow at Harvard University's Belfer Center.
A distinguished graduate of the US Military Academy, he earned MPA and PhD degrees in international relations from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
Professor of Global History at the University of Oxford, where he is Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College and Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research.
His primary area of expertise is the history of the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean, Russia, the Middle East, China and Central Asia. His research on the Crusades is considered one of the greatest contributions of this generation to a new way of understanding this topic.
His book, «The Silk Roads: A New History of the World», was named one of the 25 most influential books translated into Chinese and is a top-selling non-fiction book all over the world. He is also the author of «The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World», already considered a map of the new geopolitical order and, more recently, «The Earth Transformed – An Untold History».
Founder and CEO of the communications company Empower Sports and presenter on the Eleven Sports channel. He began his career at RTP, later working for CNN (in the US and later as a correspondent in London), Sport TV and UEFA. He has also worked with FIFA and the Portuguese Football Federation.
Journalist at CNN, political scientist and creator of the podcast «Margins of Error».
He has previously worked as a writer and data analyst on Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight.
Best known for his analysis of American politics and polling data, Harry Enten also provides statistical assessments of music and sports.
Professor of Political Science at Harvard University and director of the «Transformations of Democracy» research unit at the WZB Berlin Social Science Centre in Berlin, Germany. He published the book «How Democracies Die» (Crown, 2018) co-authored with Steve Levitsky, which became a New York Times and Der Spiegel (Germany) bestseller. He is also the author of «Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy», an account of the historical democratisation of Europe, which won the 2018 Woodrow Wilson Prize of the American Political Science Association for the best book on government and international relations, and the 2018 Barrington Moore Prize of the American Sociological Association. His first book, «Structuring the State: The Formation of Italy and Germany and the Puzzle of Federalism» (Princeton, 2006), analysed 19th-century state building. More recently, he has been a Fellow and Visiting Professor at the European University Institute (Italy), the Center for Advanced Study (Stanford), the Max Planck Institute (Germany), the University of Munich and the Ecole Normale Supérieure (France).
