• Derek Michael Powell

    Derek is a South African scholar and constitutional practice expert specializing in decentralization, state-building, and public sector governance. He serves as an Associate Professor of Law at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), where he is a senior researcher affiliated with the Dullah Omar Institute for Constitutional Law, Governance and Human Rights. He holds…

  • Gabor Halmai

    Gábor is a Hungarian legal scholar specializing in comparative and European constitutional law, human rights, and democratic erosion in Central and Eastern Europe. He is an emeritus professor at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest and the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, where he chaired Comparative Constitutional Law from 2016 to 2022. He also…

  • Natasha Lindstaedt

    Natasha is a Professor of Government at the University of Essex, specializing in authoritarian politics, democratic backsliding, state building, and human security. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Ph.D. in Comparative Politics and International Relations from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Before joining the faculty at Essex,…

  • Ana Lidia Santana Schroeder

    Ana Lídia Santana Schroeder is a Brazilian public policy expert, social impact leader, and educator who has spent over a decade working across the public, private, and non-profit sectors to strengthen social rights and institutions. She currently serves as the Director of Leadership Programs at the Latin American Leadership Academy (LALA). Schroeder holds a Bachelor’s…

  • Paulo Henrique Cassimiro

    Paulo Henrique is a Brazilian political scientist and Professor of Political Science at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), where he teaches across the Department of Political Science and the Institute of Social and Political Studies (IESP-UERJ). He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences from the Federal Fluminense University (UFF), alongside a…