David A. Deptula, Lieutenant General (Ret.), is one of the world's foremost airpower experts. Featured in Airpower Pioneers: From Billy Mitchell to Dave Deptula, he has accomplished several “firsts” in the command, planning, and execution of aerospace power. He was the principal attack planner for the Desert Storm air campaign, commander of no-fly zone operations over Iraq, and orchestrated air operations over Afghanistan in 2001. He was the air commander for the South Asia tsunami relief effort, and in 2006 for the entire Pacific Command. He has twice been a Combined/Joint Task Force Commander, served on two congressional commissions determining America's future defense, and was the first USAF chief of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) where he transformed military ISR and drone enterprises. He has piloted more than three thousand hours (four hundred in combat) to include multiple operational fighter commands in the F-15. Gen Deptula is currently the Dean of the Mitchell Institute of Aerospace Studies, and a Senior Scholar at the U.S. Air Force Academy. He is also a director on several boards, a consultant, prolific writer, and commentator on military issues. [email protected]
Josephine Jackson, Ph.D., is a policy analyst in the Office of the U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Global Partnerships. She is a mentor for the Ethics Fellows at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs; a Fellow for the Centre for Global Law and Governance at the University of St Andrews; and a research associate at the Institute for Middle East, Central Asia and Caucasus Studies at the University of St Andrews. Her research focuses on mass atrocity prevention and response; international human rights (laws, norms, institutions, and ethical frameworks); and U.S. and U.K. foreign policy and national security. [email protected]
Anthony F. Lang Jr. is a professor in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews. His research and teaching focus on the intersection of law, ethics, and politics at the global level. [email protected]
Dominic Lenzi is an assistant professor of environmental ethics at the University of Twente. His research focuses on ethics and political philosophy in the Anthropocene, including topics related to climate ethics and climate economics, planetary boundaries and natural resource justice, and environmental values and valuation. He was also a chapter author for the Methodological Assessment of the Diverse Values and Valuation of Nature of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, produced by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. [email protected]
Wilson Miles is an Associate Research Fellow at Emerging Technologies Institute (ETI). Wilson's research and analysis portfolio includes analyzing the hypersonics and directed energy technology supply chains, ethics of artificial intelligence, the Joint Warfighting Concept, STEM workforce issues, and other modernization technology policy issues. Wilson previously held internships at multiple nonprofit organizations including CRDF Global, the Hudson Institute, and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He received his master's degree in International Affairs: US Foreign Policy and National Security from American University's School of International Service and his bachelor's in international relations from Linfield University. [email protected]
Mary Ellen O'Connell holds the Robert and Marion Short Chair in Law and is Professor of International Peace Studies in the Kroc Institute at the University of Notre Dame. Her research focus is general international law, international law on the use of force, international dispute resolution, and international legal theory. She is a long-time member and former chair of the International Law Association Committee on the Use of Force. She is a member of the advisory board of the Institute for Theology and Peace, Hamburg, Germany and was a vice-president of the American Society of International Law, as well as a professional military educator for the United States Department of Defense. [email protected]
Esther D. Reed is a professor of theological ethics at the University of Exeter in the U.K. Selected publications include: “Truth, Lies and New Weapons Technologies: Prospects for Jus in Silico?” in Studies in Christian Ethics (2022); The Limits of Responsibility: Engaging Dietrich Bonhoeffer in a Globalizing Era (2018); Theology for International Law (2013); and Civil Liberties, National Security and Prospects for Consensus: Legal, Philosophical and Religious Perspectives (edited with Michael Dumper, 2011). [email protected]
Neil Renic is a researcher at the Centre for Military Studies at the University of Copenhagen, and a fellow at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg. His research focuses on the history, changing character, and regulation of armed conflict. Renic's current work evaluates the practical and moral challenges of emerging and evolving technologies such as drone and autonomous violence. He is the author of Asymmetric Killing: Risk Avoidance, Just War, and the Warrior Ethos (2020). [email protected]
Elke Schwarz is a reader in political theory at Queen Mary University of London. She is a 2022/23 fellow at the Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies at the University of Heidelberg, a 2024 Leverhulme research fellow, and a member of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control. Her research focuses on the intersection of the ethics of war and the ethics of technology with an emphasis on unmanned and autonomous/intelligent military technologies and their impact on the politics of contemporary warfare. She is the author of Death Machines: The Ethics of Violent Technologies (2018). [email protected]
Arun Seraphin is the Executive Director of Emerging Technologies Institute (ETI). Previously, Seraphin was a Professional Staff Member on the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services, where he performed oversight of Pentagon acquisition and technology programs. He has also worked at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. He holds a Ph.D in Electronic Materials from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and bachelor's degrees in Political Science and Engineering Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. [email protected]
