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Nicole Burns

Nicole Bulger (Burns)

Nicole Bulger (Burns) (she/her) is a settler on Turtle Island and has been living on the traditional territories of the Attawandaron, Anishnaabeg, and Haudenosaunee Peoples for the last decade. Nicole is a PhD candidate at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo, specializing in Global Justice and Human Rights. Nicole’s master’s research focused […]

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Alexander Waworuntu

Alexander Waworuntu

Alexander Waworuntu is a PhD in Global Governance candidate at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. He is a recent graduate of the Balsillie School’s Master of Arts in Global Governance program and additionally holds a Bachelor of Public Affairs and Policy Management from Carleton University. Alexander has extensive experience working on Indo-Pacific region issues.

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Heba Hamzeh

Heba Hamzeh

Heba is a graduate of Damascus University, with a bachelor’s degree in economics and a major in accounting. Her professional and academic choices have always been to serve the goals that she is passionate about, which are first and foremost to be an influential member in her community—one who could make a positive lasting change.

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Mark Pompilii

Mark Pompilii

Mark’s academic research interests have centered around political science. As an undergraduate student Mark received an Honors Specialization in Political Science from Kings University College at Western University (2021). Following this, Mark recently received a Master of Arts in Political Science from Western University where he specialized in Canadian Politics (2022). Upon completion of his

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Claudia Gallant

Claudia Gallant

Claudia Gallant is a student at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in the Master of Arts in Global Governance program. She recently graduated from the University of Western Ontario with an Honours Bachelor of Arts, Political Science. Throughout her undergraduate experience, Claudia had the opportunity to study and explore a variety of disciplines including

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Brandon Dickson

Brandon Dickson

Brandon Dickson (he/him) is a PhD candidate (ABD) at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. His research focuses on the international drivers of sustainability decision making in organizational policies. Previously, Brandon’s research programme has focused on the politics of education in the wake of mass atrocities. Brandon has worked in various research roles in academic,

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Abdiasis Issa

Abdiasis Issa

Abdiasis Issa is a PhD Candidate and Doctoral Fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. His research interests include United Nations and African Union peace operations, regional security governance, security regionalism and the interplay of international and regional organizations in peacebuilding, managing conflict and global governance. His dissertation critically examines the United Nations-African Union

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Tejas Rao

Tejas Rao

Tejas Rao is currently Manager at the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law, a Research Assistant with the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, and a PhD Candidate at the Deparment of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, where he is a Nehru Trust Scholar. His research examines narratives and the political economy of international law-making, with

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Greg Giokas

Greg Giokas, BA (German and French), Université Laval, 1981; MA (International Affairs), Carleton University, 1984, served the federal government for 31 years. His extensive experience includes work on Parliament Hill, at the Canadian International Development Agency, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada. During his career, Mr. Giokas has led the

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Izabela Steflja

Izabela Steflja

Izabela Steflja is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU). Prior to joining WLU, Dr. Steflja was a Professor of Practice in International Development and Political Science at Tulane University (2016–2021). Dr. Steflja has conducted years of ethnographic fieldwork in post-conflict countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kenya, Serbia, and

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Ben Clift

Ben Clift

Ben Clift is Professor of Political Economy, Deputy Head, and Director of Research in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. His research interests lie at the interface of comparative and international political economy. He recently held a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for a project entitled ‘The OBR and the

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Vicki Squire

Vicki Squire

Vicki Squire is Professor of International Politics at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick. Her research explores the politics of migration, displacement, asylum and solidarity activism across various contexts. She is author of several books, including Reclaiming Migration (2021, Manchester University Press), Europe’s Migration Crisis (2020, Cambridge University Press), Post/Humanitarian Border

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