Victor McFarland is an associate professor in the MU Department of History. His research interests center on energy, the environment, and U.S. relations with the Middle East, with a special focus o

Robert Cargill Jr. is a native son of East Texas where as a child he was fascinated by the flaring gas from oil wells in his grandfather’s back yard. He studied chemistry at Rice, earned a PhD at M

Javier Blas is Chief Energy Correspondent at Bloomberg News and covers 

Javier Blas was appointed Financial Times’ commodities editor in 2010, having joined the newspaper in 2007 as comm

Sheelah Kolhatkar, a former hedge fund analyst, is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she writes about Wall Street, Silicon Valley, economics and national politics, among other things. She has

Jack Ewing writes about business, banking, economics and monetary policy from Frankfurt, and sometimes helps out on terrorism coverage and other breaking news.

Mr. Ewing joined The Internatio

Hannah Catherine Davies is assistant professor of modern history at the University of Zurich and prior to that she was a research fellow at Free University of Berlin. 

Professor Davies h

My research and writing explores the historical intersections among law, business, politics, and policy in the modern United States, with a particular focus on the origins, evolution, and impacts o

Dr. Brent Goldfarb is Associate Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship in the M&O Department at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business. Goldfarb's research focuse

John Carreyrou, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, was a reporter at The Wall Street Journal for twenty years. For his extensive coverage of Theranos, Carreyrou was awarded the George Polk Aw

Adam Levitin, J.D., specializes in bankruptcy, commercial law, and financial regulation at Georgetown Law. He previously served as special counsel to the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troub

Professor Michael Lee teaches international relations and international political economy at Hunter College the City University of New York. 

Professor Lee graduated with Bachelor's degr

Jennifer C. Noble is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at California State University, Sacramento. Professor Noble has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from California State University, Sacr

Reeves Wiedeman is joining New York Magazine as a contributing editor. He’ll primarily write print features across a range of subjects, including sports, business, culture, and more. He has previou

Dr. Daniel Yergin is a recognized authority on energy, international politics and economics. He is Vice Chairman of IHS Markit and chairman of its CERAWeek by IHS Markit energy conference.

He

Dr Homa Katouzian is the Iran Heritage Foundation Research Fellow, St Antony’s College, and Member, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford. He is Senior Editor, Iran Namag, A Quarterly o

Thomas E. Ricks is the author of Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom. He writes the "Best Defense" blog at Foreign Policy and is the military-history columnist at The New York Times Book Re

Elizabeth F. Thompson is a historian of social movements and liberal constitutionalism in the Middle East, with a focus on how race and gender have conditioned foreign intervention and the applicat

Pierre Razoux is Research Director at the Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l’Ecole Militaire (IRSEM), Paris.

Dr Pierre Razoux (born in 1966) is a French Senior Civil Servant and a Doctor

Dr. Ibrahim Fraihat is an associate professor in international conflict resolution at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, and non-resident fellow at Deakin University's Middle East Studies For

Steven R. Ward is a senior CIA intelligence analyst who specializes in Iran and the Middle East. He was the CIA Visiting Professor to the US Naval Academy from 2010 to 2012, and he previously serve