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Professor Cristina Soreanu Pecequilo has a PhD in Political Science obtained at the Federal University of São Paulo [UNIFESP] and works as an associate researcher at the Brazilian Centre of Strategy and International Relations at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul [NERINT], for the Brazilian International Projection Research Group at UNIFESP, at the Federal University of ABC [UFABC] and for Brazil´s international…

Margaret Pastorová is a civic education and multicultural education trainer at the Czech National Institute for Education [Národní ústav odborného vzdělávání]. Information valid as of winter 2012.

Alexey Pamporov conducts sociological research for the Open Society Institute in Sofia. He is also an associate professor at the Sociological Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He has carried out intensive research in Budapest and Rostock and is an expert on issues involving ethnic minorities and cultural subgroups. Information valid as of autumn 2012.

Adam Ostolski is a sociologist, activist, philosopher and translator, who teaches sociology at Warsaw’s Medical University. His academic interests include gendered nationalism, social memory, psychoanalysis, Jewish studies, the sociology of knowledge and the study of social movements. Adam is also known for his political activism and is the joint leader of the Polish Green Party, Partia Zieloni. He is also…

Brendan O’Neill is the editor of spiked and a columnist for the Big Issue in London and the Australian in Sydney. He also writes a daily blog for the Daily Telegraph and is a regular contributor to the Spectator. He has been described as “one of this country’s sharpest social commentators” by the Telegraph and as a “sub Danny Dyer…

Jeroen Olyslaegers is a Flemish writer. He writes film reviews for the weekly Humo and contributes to the radio programme Klara, but is best known for his books and his contributions to Flemish theatre. Recent publications include Wij (Meulenhoff/Manteau, 2009) and Winst (De Bezige Bij Antwerpen, 2012), while he has been involved in the following theatrical productions in the last…

Bertrand Ogilvie is a French philosopher based in Paris. He graduated in philosophy and classics from the Sorbonne, writing his PhD on Hegel as the foreigner. Ogilvie is the author of a book on Lacan and, more recently, L’homme jetable: essai sur l’exterminisme et la violence extreme [The Disposable Man: an Essay on Extremism and Extreme Violence]. In his latest…

Fokke Obbema works at the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant, where he has served as chief economics editor (2007-11) and France correspondent (2002-07). As chief economics editor he started to become fascinated in China, an interest, which resulted in this year’s well-received book China and Europe.  China and Europe asks whether Europe should be afraid of China and its increasing global economic…

Tomáš Němeček is a Czech journalist based in Prague. He studied journalism and law at Charles University in Prague. Before graduating he worked for the weekly Mladý svět, after which, in 1995, he moved on to the weekly, Respekt, becoming its editor-in-chief in January 2003. In April 2005, he became the chief columnist for the daily Hospodářské noviny and in…

Simon Mundy is a chairman of the UK Association of Creative Professionals and a permanent fellow of Felix Meritis. He is a writer and advocate for the arts. He has written over 20 books – poetry, novels and books on music and cultural politics – and collaborates as a poet with dancers, musicians and visual artists. He was a co-founder…

Phil Mullan is an economist and businessman. He has written about the economics of ageing (The Imaginary Time Bomb: Why an Ageing Population is not a Social Problem, IB Tauris, 2000) and lectures on economics and business affairs. He is presently writing a book entitled The Limits of Muddling Along: Why Trying to Save the Economy is Destroying our Future…

Daniel Münich is an associate professor at CERGE-EI [Centre for Economic Research and Graduate Education – Economics Institute, Prague] and has been a docent at CERGE [Centre for Economic Research and Graduate Education], Charles University, Prague since 2006 and a Researcher at the Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (EI) since 1998. Daniel Münich has…