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.

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.

Dr. Daniel A. Kaute’s lifelong passion is innovation, especially high tech commercialization strategy and implementation. Daniel currently works with a consultancy, Orange Hills, which pulls together key learnings from leading authorities in entrepreneurship, and teaches them in a hands on, interactive fashion. Mostly through Oxford University Innovation he is also involved in a number of projects in the storage and renewable energy area (disruptive lithium ion battery technology and wind energy), and he is Chairman of Silicon Fuel, a solid state hydrogen start up that could enable the hydrogen economy. He is also Managing Director Europe for MedX Health Corp, a unique and innovative skin cancer screening technology.