Rachel Barnes KC is a leading practitioner in sanctions law. She has a wealth of experience from specializing in this area for many years as both an English barrister and US attorney. Her clients include governments, corporates, individuals, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). She is the co-editor of a leading international sanctions practitioners’ text, The Guide to Sanctions, Global Investigations Review (GRI) (Law Business Research Ltd), previously taught law at the London School of Economics and Cambridge University and holds a PhD for her study of UN Security Council sanctions.

Seida Barrera Rodríguez is Full Professor and Senior Researcher at the Center for Hemispheric and United States Studies, University of Havana. She is also an Adjunct at the Agricultural University of Havana and University of Cienfuegos. Barrera is a business consultant at the International Center of Havana. She was Visiting Researcher at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Social Issues; and Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Barrera has been a lecturer at other universities in Cuba, the UK, US, Spain, Finland, Greece, and Belgium. She has authored several publications in different countries about business, US sanctions against Cuba, and US corporations and LLCs.

Esfandyar Batmanghelidj is Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He is the founder and CEO of the Bourse & Bazaar Foundation, a think tank dedicated to economic development and economic diplomacy in West Asia. Esfandyar studies the political economy of sanctions and their effects on targeted economies.

Benedicte Bull is Professor of Political Science at the Centre for Global Sustainability at the University of Oslo. Her research focuses on elites, development, democracy, and international relations in Latin America. Her recent publications treat the role of China in the Global South, sanctions, and authoritarian capitalism.

Fr. Charles B. Chilufya, S.J. is a Jesuit priest and independent global policy analyst. His work focuses on economic justice, debt, and the humanitarian impact of international sanctions. Drawing on African perspectives and ethical principles, he advocates for accountable global governance and policies that uphold human dignity and protect the vulnerable.

Alice Debarre is a humanitarian policy and diplomacy professional, and a qualified lawyer. She holds an MA from the Paris Institute of Political Studies and an LLM from Georgetown University Law Center. Debarre is currently the Humanitarian Affairs Adviser for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies’ Middle East and North Africa Regional Office. She has worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Delegation in Brussels, and the International Peace Institute (IPI) in New York. At IPI, Debarre notably led projects and published policy reports on the impact of sanctions and counter-terrorism measures on humanitarian aid. She has also worked at the ICRC Headquarters in Geneva, the American Red Cross, and Human Rights First in Washington, DC.

Omar Dewachi is Chair and Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University. Trained in medicine and anthropology, his research explores the intersections of global health, the history of medicine, and political anthropology, with a particular focus on the human and environmental consequences of conflict, military intervention, and sanctions in Iraq and the broader Middle East.

Ernesto Domínguez López is Professor of History and Political Sciences at the Center for Hemispheric and United States Studies, University of Havana. He has held visiting positions and lectured at universities in Cuba, the United States, Europe, and Latin America. His fields of research include US–Cuba relations, US politics, and the history of capitalism.

Ryan Dowding is a barrister at Three Raymond Buildings, London, specializing in white-collar crime, civil recovery, and sanctions and export controls work. He represents individuals, companies, and law enforcement agencies in these areas and is regularly engaged in cases with an international dimension.

Alena F. Douhan is Professor of International Law at the Belarusian State University. She is also the UN Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights (2020–2026). Her teaching and research interests are in the fields of international law, sanctions and human rights law, international security law, law of international organizations, international dispute settlement, and international environmental law. She has authored over 190 publications on various aspects of international law.

Pierre-Emmanuel Dupont is Senior Lecturer in Public International Law at the Catholic Institute of Vendée. He is also a lawyer with established expertise on legal issues relating to international sanctions and embargoes. He has served with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) as legal advisor with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on unilateral international sanctions.

Erich Ferrari represents corporations, financial institutions, and private individuals in US sanctions compliance, licensing, investigations and enforcement, and delisting matters. With eighteen years of experience in US sanctions law, he represents clients before the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and in US federal courts.

Joy Gordon holds the Ignacio Ellacuría, S. J. Chair in Social Ethics in the Philosophy Department at Loyola University-Chicago. She works in the fields of political philosophy, international law, and international relations. She has published extensively on moral and legal issues of economic sanctions.

Kevin Gray is Professor in International Relations at the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex. His research expertise relates to the political economy of East Asian development. He is the author of Korean Workers and Neoliberal Globalisation (Routledge, 2008), Labour and Development in East Asia: Social Forces and Passive Revolution (Routledge, 2015), and the co-author with Jong-Woon Lee of North Korea and the Geopolitics of Development (Cambridge University Press, 2021).

Deokjun Ha is General Counsel at Hanwha TotalEnergies Petrochemical Co., Ltd. He holds an LLM in International Legal Studies from New York University School of Law. As in-house counsel, he has navigated a broad spectrum of international transactions and corporate matters at the intersection of global trade and economic sanctions.

Edward I. Ham is a neurosurgery resident at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. During medical school, he completed an MPH and spent a year at Harvard Medical School’s Program in Global Surgery and Social Change. He was also the research assistant to Dr. Kee B. Park at the Korean Health Policy Project at Harvard Medical School. His specific interests include global neurosurgery, education, and policy and advocacy-related research.

Melina J. Iturriaga Bartuste is Professor at the Center for Hemispheric and United States Studies at the University of Havana. She received her law degree from the University of Havana in 2021, and in 2024, she received her MA in United States Studies and Hemispheric Geopolitics. She is currently working toward her PhD in Political Science at the University of Havana. She has published articles in Cuba, Germany, and France on international public law and on economic sanctions.

Mohammad Kanfash is a humanitarian professional and doctoral researcher at the Centre for Conflict Studies, Utrecht University. With seventeen years of experience, he has worked with the United Nations Refugee Agency, Clingendael Academy, and various international and local NGOs, contributing to crisis response efforts across diverse regions.

Suzy Kim is Professor of Korean History at Rutgers University. She is the author of Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945–1950 (2013) and Among Women across Worlds: North Korea in the Global Cold War (2023), both published by Cornell University Press. Kim is also senior editor of positions: asia critique, and serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Korean Studies and Yŏsŏng kwa yŏksa (Women and History), the journal of the Korean Association of Women’s History.

Kee B. Park, MD, MPH. Over the last decade, Park has directed the Korea Health Policy Project at Harvard Medical School, where he studies the nexus between geopolitics and health in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). Since 2007, Kee has visited the DPRK over twenty-five times to work alongside North Korean neurosurgeons.

Dursun Peksen is Professor of Political Science at the University of Memphis. His teaching and research interests revolve around the subjects of foreign policy, international political economy, and human rights. He has published over seventy journal articles and book chapters.

Francisco Rodríguez is the Rice Family Professor of International and Public Affairs at the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies. His research has appeared in the American Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Politics and The Lancet Global Health. He is also a frequent op-ed contributor to The New York Times, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy, and the author of The Collapse of Venezuela: Scorched Earth Politics and Economic Decline, 2012–2020 (University of Notre Dame Press, 2025).

Raúl Rodríguez Rodríguez is Full Professor of North American History and International Relations and currently the Director of the Center for Hemispheric and United States Studies at the University of Havana and Head of the National Social Sciences and Humanities program of Cuba. He is an expert on US economic sanctions on Cuba, with numerous publications in academic journals and books.

Antulio Rosales is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Science at York University in Toronto. His work focuses on the political economy of resource governance, digital assets, development, and democracy.

C. Yoonhee Ryder is a current otolaryngology resident surgeon at the University of Michigan. After graduating with a degree in anthropology and biology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, prior to medical school, she served in the Peace Corps as a health extension agent in Togo. She is a member of the Korea Health Policy Project and does research and advocacy in global surgery.

Fernando C. Saldivar, S.J. is a Jesuit priest and a member of the Society of Jesus, USA West Province. He is a faculty member at LMU Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, California, where he is affiliated with the International Human Rights Center. He was formerly the Global Policy and Advocacy Officer for the Jesuit Justice and Ecology Network Africa (JENA) in Nairobi, Kenya.

Athar Shafaei is a sessional lecturer at the University of Melbourne. Her research and teaching focus on international political economy, human security, global migration, and digital policy. She has published on migration and human rights and leads evidence-based research in government shaping social and health policy. Her work bridges academia and government to advance equity and inclusion in policy and service design.

Hazel Smith is Professorial International Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She has held numerous research fellowships and published extensively on North Korea. Smith has advised government agencies worldwide, international organizations, NGOs, and think tanks on North Korea’s society, economics, politics, and international relations.

Nicholas W. Turner is an American lawyer based in Hong Kong, where he advises multinational companies on sanctions compliance. He has advised leading companies in the technology, financial services, and transportation sectors and previously taught courses on sanctions law and policy in the Law Faculty at Hong Kong University.