Anjali Sarker leads a wide range of leadership development programmes for students and professionals. Her responsibilities include programme design and delivery and strategic partnership development with universities and other institutions. Previously, she was an international development practitioner and an expert on leadership, innovation, and human development. She is a Dalai Lama Fellow, a Senior Atlantic Fellow at the London School of Economics (LSE), a Global Shaper at the World Economic Forum, and a New Voices Fellow at the Aspen Institute.

Inken von Borzyskowski is Professor of International Relations at the Department of Politics and International Relations, and Fellow at St Catherine’s College. She received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2014. Before joining Oxford, she spent four years at University College London, four years at Florida State University, a post-doc year at Free University Berlin, and an exchange year at Duke University.

Maxim is pursuing a DPhil in International Relations at the University of Oxford and works as an Associate Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. His primary research interests are in geopolitics and international political economy. For his DPhil, he is investigating the granular mechanisms of wartime trade.

Eli is a second-year doctoral student at the University of Oxford (Nuffield College) studying armed group cultural production during civil war. His thesis combines interviews with Colombian ex-combatants, formal models, and archival material from around Latin America to explain how armed groups use cultural production as a vehicle for social transformation. In doing so, it engages with theory from a variety of disciplines, including political theory, aesthetics, sociology, and cognitive psychology.