Emre Caliskan is reading for a DPhil in International Relations at St Antony’s College at the University of Oxford. He taught Middle East Politics and International Relations courses at the University of Oxford. His dissertation explores the role of Turkish Islamic non-state actors in Turkey’s foreign policy making in Sub-Saharan Africa. His other interests include Turkey’s transnational Islam, Turkish foreign policy, and Islamic NGOs in International Relations. He holds an MA in Middle East and Mediterranean Studies from King’s College London and is the co-author, with Simon A. Waldman, of The ‘New Turkey’ and its Discontents (2016) which assesses social, religious and political polarisation under Recep Erdoğan’s AKP and the likely consequences for Turkey’s evolution. A Turkish analyst and freelance journalist, Emre has worked for the BBC Turkish service, Cumhuriyet, Newsweek Turkey and the Turkish public broadcaster Türkiye Radyo Televizyon (TRT), as a foreign correspondent based in Ankara, Damascus, Beijing and London. His commentaries are picked up by Open Democracy, Al Monitor and Haaretz.

Kimron Flicker graduated with a BA in Middle Eastern Studies and Psychology from Tel Aviv University and an MPhil in Development Studies from Murray Edwards College, Cambridge. She worked for three years as a private tutor in Tel Aviv, Israel and Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her main research interests are Middle Eastern politics and social history.

Mihaela Mitrovic is an engineer of architecture, brain scientist, artist, philosopher, and graduate of Magdalen College, Oxford. Currently, she is the Director of Development of the Oxford Foundation for Theoretical Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, at the University of Oxford’s Department of Experimental Psychology. In her research, she combines her academic background in Architecture, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Aesthetics, and AI, investigating themes on the overlap of sciences and humanities. A passionate and innovative teacher, Mihaela has taught at Oxford University’s Colleges, and tutorial colleges in Oxford and London, covering a variety of fields from architecture and art, to psychology and neuroscience.

Nelia Koroleva is a Visiting Lecturer at University of Westminster, specialising in Entrepreneurship, Team Creativity, Innovation, and Marketing. She is one of the main contributors to influence and impact international students at the Team Creativity and Innovation (Module design), Entrepreneurial Practice (Module design), New Venture Creation (Module development); Starting New Business (Module development), and Entrepreneurial Practice (Module development). Nelia is the only UK Consultant and Executive Coach; combining practice and academic research on sustainable change (current Doctoral study at Oxford Brookes University), and the author of a new theoretical Model of sustainable change in leadership coaching (published in the International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring, Special Issue, June 2016). Nelia established and successfully managed her own coaching consultancy business since 2009. In the past 9 years she designed and put into operation 20 programmes and 227 workshops engaging 3,500+ participants in the corporate, education and health sectors. Major clients: Coca Cola HBC, NHS, Oxford Summer Courses. Nelia is honoured by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) Global 2016 Prism Award Honorable Mentions for delivering of the coaching programme at Coca Cola HBC that fulfils rigorous professional standards, addresses key strategic goals, shapes organizational culture, and measurable positive impacts. Nelia’s main achievements: Global Expertise, Academic Knowledge; Inspiring Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Emotional Intelligence. Nelia indulges in great passion for short stories writing and collecting contemporary art.