CONTRIBUTORS.

James Maker Atem is a current Master of International Affairs candidate at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, with double specializations in International Organizations & United Nations Studies and International Conflict Resolution. James has also worked as a part-time Lecturer at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology in Kenya from January 2017 to November 2019. Before coming to the United States, James worked with UNHCR from November 2020 to August 2021 as a Tertiary Connected Learning Coordinator in Kakuma, Kenya. His roles entailed assisting with the day-to-day running of Turkana West University Campus, Technical Institutions, and Instant Network Schools monitoring. He holds a bachelor's degree in Conflict Resolution and Humanitarian Assistance and a master's in diplomacy and international relations from Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology in Kenya.

Dinara Auyelbekova is the Founder and Director of Girls Power Fund, an organization that designs and delivers innovative solutions to address gender inequality in rural Kazakhstan by promoting girls' access to STEM education. Girls Power Fund has worked with over 700 girls and has developed partnerships with Eurasia Foundation, local universities, and the U.S. Embassy in Kazakhstan. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Girls Power Fund launched a free tutoring program after learning that students were not able to complete homework due to childcare responsibilities during remote learning. She is also an international consultant in project management working with Eurasia Foundation, UNDP Kazakhstan, and Germany's Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations. She holds a master's of business administration degree in international management from Geneva Business School and a bachelor's degree in economics from Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan. She is a member of the 2022-2023 cohort of the Obama Foundation Scholars Program.

Farzaneh Badiei is a research associate at the Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Public Policy and the former Executive Director of Internet Governance Project (IGP). For nearly a decade, Farzaneh has been a part of the Internet governance research and professional community. She has conducted research at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HUG) and the Syracuse School of Information Studies. She also worked at the United Nations Internet Governance Forum Secretariat. In 2017, she was the chair of Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) at Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Her current research interests revolve around online private justice systems, Internet governance and accountability of Internet governance institutions, Internet and jurisdiction, online intermediaries and dispute resolution, as well as cybersecurity, cyber-attribution and digital trade. She received her PhD from the University of Hamburg, Institute of Law and Economics, where her dissertation focused on online private justice systems, institutional design, and online market intermediaries.

Rajesh Basrur is Senior Fellow in the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Previously he was Professor of International Relations at RSIS; taught at the University of Mumbai; and held numerous visiting positions, including at Stanford University, Sandia Laboratories, and the Brookings Institution. He has authored, among others, Subcontinental Drift: Domestic Politics and India's Foreign Policy (Georgetown University Press, forthcoming); (with Kate Sullivan de Estrada) Rising India: Status and Power (Routledge, 2017); South Asia's Cold War (Routledge, 2008); and Minimum Deterrence and India's Nuclear Security (Stanford University Press, 2006).

Mark Blyth is Director of the William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance, the William R. Rhodes '57 Professor of International Economics, and a Professor of International and Public Affairs at Brown University. He is a political economist whose research focuses upon how uncertainty...

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