Dr. Samuel Woolley is a writer, researcher and speaker who specializes in the study of disinformation, emergent technology and life online. He and his colleagues were among the first people to uncover the manipulative political use of social media during political events worldwide. They coined the terms “computational propaganda” and “political bot.”
Woolley’s next book, “The Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth“, is set to be released in January 2020 by PublicAffairs/Hachette. His previous book, “Computational Propaganda,” (2018) is a series of country case studies on how digital tools were used during elections, national disasters and security crises in attempts manipulate public opinion. It is co-authored wit
Robert Nigel Gildea is professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford and is the author of several influential books on 20th century French history.
Alessandro Aresu (1983) è un analista geopolitico ed esperto di strategie e politiche pubbliche. Nell’ultimo decennio ha lavorato come consigliere, consulente e dirigente per diverse istituzioni, tra cui il Ministero dell’Economia, il Ministero degli Esteri, la Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, Assolombarda, l’Agenzia Spaziale Italiana. È stato inoltre consulente di società internazionali, tra cui Eurasia Group e Rann Strategy Group. Firma di “Limes – la rivista italiana di geopolitica” dal 2005, scrive anche per L’Espresso, La Stampa e Le Grand Continent. È autore e curatore di numerosi volumi.
Doug Saunders (b. 1967) is a Canadian-British author and journalist.
He is the author of the books Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World (2011) and The Myth of the Muslim Tide (2012) and is the international-affairs columnist for The Globe and Mail.
He served as the paper’s London-based European bureau chief for a decade, after having run the paper’s Los Angeles bureau, and has written extensively from East Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, the Middle East and North Africa. He writes a weekly column devoted to the larger themes and intellectual concepts behind international news, and has won the National Newspaper Award, Canada’s counterpart to the Pulitzer Prize, on five occasions.
Stephen B. Bright is an American lawyer known for representing people facing the death penalty, advocating for the right to counsel for poor people accused of crimes, and challenging inhumane practices and conditions in prisons and jails.
Eric Rauchway is an American historian and professor at the University of California, Davis. Rauchway's scholarship focuses on modern US political, social and economic history, particularly the Progressive Era and the New Deal.
Dan Breznitz is an associate professor at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the College of Management, and an associate professor by courtesy at the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is author of the award-winning book Innovation and the State, published by Yale University Press, and a Sloan Foundation Industry Studies Fellow. He lives in Atlanta.
Edmund Fawcett is a British political journalist. Formerly chief correspondent of The Economist, he now writes for The New York Times, The Guardian and New Statesman. His latest book is Liberalism: The Life of an Idea
Robert B. Zoellick's public experience spans six US presidencies over more than thirty years. He served as Deputy Secretary at the US State Department, as Ambassador and US Trade Representative, in the Treasury Department and the White House, and as President of the World Bank.
SUSAN SCHNEIDER is a philosopher and cognitive scientist. She is the Blumberg-NASA chair at the Library of Congress and NASA and the Director of the AI,Mind and Society group at the University of Connecticut. Podcasts, chapters, videos, etc. are available at her website: Schneiderwebsite.com
