Researcher at the Free University of Amsterdam

science writer and journalist covering European Union affairs

Graduate of Social Sciences from Allameh Tabataba’i University, student of Humanities and Social Sciences at Iran Academia, and researcher of social networks in Iran.

A retired professor of political science and holder of the Catherine A. Osgood Foster Chair for Distinguished Teaching at Bennington College, Vermont; former Ambassador of Iran to the United Nations; and author.

An American author and veteran diplomat, former U.S. Embassy official in Tehran, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Iran (Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, U.S. Department of State).

Philosophy graduate and human rights advisor to the German Parliament

Writer and researcher of contemporary Iranian history

Lecturer in Philosophy, Politics & Economics (PPE) at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, The Aga Khan University

Ahad Pirahmadian is a philosophy and literature researcher with a focus on German Philosophy and phenomenology.

Richard Nedjat-Haiem is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Shahla Haeri is a Professor of Anthropology and a former director of the Women's Studies Program at Boston University.

Luke Goldstein is an investigative journalist and reporter with The Lever.