Mihail Chiru is an Associate Professor in Comparative Central and Eastern European Politics, St Antony's College. He received a PhD (awarded Summa Cum Laude) in Comparative Politics from the Central European University.

Before joining DPIR, Mihail was a Departmental Lecturer in East European Politics at Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA). He previously taught at the University of Southampton and at the Central European University and conducted postdoctoral work at UCLouvain (Belgium) and Median Research Centre (Romania).

I am Professor of Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations and Fellow of St Antony's College, where I am also a member of the Middle East Centre.

Jeanne Morefield is Associate Professor of Political Theory and Fellow at New College. She is also a Non-Residential Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, Washington DC. Before coming to Oxford she taught as Associate Professor of Political Theory at the University of Birmingham, Professor of Politics at Whitman College, and was a Professorial Fellow at The Institute for Social Justice, Australian Catholic University. Between 2016 and 2019 she served as Co-President of the Association for Political Theory.