Dr. Muqtedar Khan is a Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware.  He is also a non-resident scholar with the Center for Global Policy, coordinating their Good Governance initiative. He was the academic director of the US State Department’s National Security Institute, 2016-2019 and is the academic director of the American Foreign Policy Institute, 2019-2022, at the Institute for Global Studies, UD. He was a Senior Nonresident Fellow of the Brookings Institution (2003-2008) and a Senior Fellow with the Center for Global Policy (2017-2020). He is the author of the award-winning book Islam and Good Governance: Political Philosophy of Ihsan (2019, Palgrave Macmillan). He is also the author of several other books: American Muslims: Bridging Faith and Freedom (2002), Jihad for Jerusalem: Identity and Strategy in International Relations (2004), Islamic Democratic Discourse (2006), Debating Moderate Islam (University of Utah Press, 2007). His articles and commentaries can be found here. His academic publications can be found here. His Google Scholar profile can be found here. He hosts a YouTube show called Khanversations.

Jiwon Nam is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. Her primary field of research is International Relations and her secondary field is Comparative Politics. Within international relations, her research interests include climate change politics, especially the role of democracy and populism on nations’ level of cooperation with international organizations. Methodologically, she is interested in text analysis and Natural Language Processing (NLP) in the context of political communication and the relationship between political rhetoric and political behaviors.

Amara Galileo is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science & International Relations at the University of Delaware in the U.S. Her overarching research agenda explores democracy in Africa, while her dissertation assesses whether democracy is eroding in Ghana and South Africa. Amara previously served as a research assistant for Afrobarometer, a pan-African survey research network, and she has been active in various local community groups such as the Delaware Africa Coalition and the Delaware African & Caribbean Affairs Commission.