Dr Aurelien Mondon is a Senior Lecturer in politics at the University of Bath. His research focuses predominantly on the impact of racism and populism on liberal democracies and the mainstreaming of far right politics through elite discourse. His first book, The Mainstreaming of the Extreme Right in France and Australia: A Populist Hegemony?, was published in 2013 and he recently co-edited After Charlie Hebdo: Terror, racism and free speech published with Zed. His latest book, Reactionary democracy: How racism and the populist far right became mainstream, co-written with Aaron Winter, was published by Verso in 2020.

Bilge Erten is an Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Northeastern University. Bilge received her PhD in economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2010. She was a postdoctoral research scholar of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University from 2012 to 2014, and is currently an NBER DITE fellow. She is an associate editor of Feminist Economics, and a member of the Gender and Development Initiative at Northeastern University. Her primary research interests are in gender and development economics, with a particular focus on empirical research.

Güney Işıkara is Clinical Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies. He is a political economist whose research fields include political economy of the environment, comparative economic systems, economic theory and history.

María Victoria Murillo is a professor of Political Science and International Studies and Director of the Institute for Latin American Studies at Columbia University (New York). She is the author, among other books, of Unionism, market reforms and party coalitions in Latin America (Siglo Veintiuno, Buenos Aires, 2008). Find her podcast here.

Sujatha Fernandes is the author of several books, including Cuba Represent! Cuban Arts, State Power, and the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures (Duke University Press, 2006) and Who Can Stop the Drums? Urban Social Movements in Chávez’s Venezuela (Duke University Press, 2010). Her latest book is Curated Stories: The Uses and Misuses of Storytelling (Oxford University Press, 2017). She is currently completing a collection of essays entitled The Cuban Hustle.

Guido Alfani is Professor of Economic History at Bocconi University where he is also a Fellow of Dondena Centre and of IGIER. He is an Affiliated Scholar at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality (New York) and a Research Fellow of CEPR. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Economic History and of Genus. He is also the organizer of the international scientific network EI-Net (Economic Inequality Network).