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Dongzhu Xu is a PhD candidate in Development Studies at SOAS, University of London. His research examines the political economy of mineral wealth and poverty in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with broader interests in critical minerals, new institutional economics, conflict dynamics, the resource curse and development in the Global South.

Michael Jennings is Professor of Global Development at SOAS.

Emeritus Professor of Economics

Lecturer in Development Economics

Lecturer in Economics

Olamide holds a PhD in National Security Strategy from the University of Buckingham, where he developed an analytical theoretical framework, which grants constructivist insight into National Security Policies, within Security Studies.

Kota is researching state formation in Myanmar’s borderlands, particularly in the Karen areas in south eastern Myanmar.

Tolga Sinmazdemir is a senior lecturer in political methodology. 

Hossein Bastani is an academic researcher and investigative journalist with BBC Persian, specialising in Iranian political affairs. Over the past two decades, he has produced dozens of investigative television programmes and authored more than two thousand in-depth reports and analytical articles on Iran’s domestic and foreign policy.