Shuyuan He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Beijing University of Chemical Technology. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Zhengzhou University and his Doctor of Philosophy degree in History from Sun Yat-sen University. He once conducted postdoctoral research at the Institute of Modern History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and his main research focus is the history of modern Chinese education.

Karen Lalrindiki Donoghue teaches in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India. She holds a PhD from the North Eastern Hill University, which is focused on media representation of Northeast India in mainstream Indian media, and her research interests include Media Representation, Media and Culture and Oral History. She is currently a member of the executive committee of the Oral History Association of India.

Patrick Daly has recently started an appointment as Research Scientist (Sustainability & Resilience) in the Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis. His previous research and teaching appointments include the Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, the Asia Research Institute, the National University of Singapore, and the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.

Su Yin Htun is an Institute of International Education Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF) fellow and visiting scholar in the Einaudi Center for International Studies’ Southeast Asia Program. 

Paul Kaiser joins the Einaudi Center in fall 2025 as Einaudi's practitioner in residence. He moderated the Lund debate in October and is mentoring this year's Undergraduate Global Scholars.

Dr. Ronojoy Sen is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies and the South Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore. He has worked for over a decade with leading Indian newspapers, most recently as an editor for The Times of India.

Sadia Mahmood holds a PhD in Religious Studies from Arizona State University. Her research investigates religious difference and the production and governance of postcolonial minorities in South Asia. Grounded in fieldwork among Hindu communities in the Tharparkar region of Sindh and archival work in Pakistan and Bangladesh, her work examines the governance of minorities through legal and bureaucratic regimes in Pakistan, caste and identity politics along the Sindh-Rajasthan borderlands and Dalit strategies of assertion in Sindh. 

Noor Ahmad Akhundzadah received his bachelor’s degree in geology from Kabul University, Master’s in Agriculture, and Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology of Japan. He conducts research on groundwater resources investigation, climate change impacts on water resources, climate change mitigation through renewable energy resources, peacebuilding, climate change, and migration. He is also an AGU Global Engagement Committee member.

Yoshiko Okuyama (PhD, University of Arizona) is a professor of Japanese studies in the Department of Languages at the University of Hawai’i at Hilo. Her areas of specialization include Japanese popular culture, disability studies, deaf studies, second language acquisition, and technology-mediated communication.

Andrew Harding is a visiting lecturer in the Department of Asian Studies. His research analyzes fiction written by ethnically Korean writers who were born and raised in Japan after World War II. His dissertation provides a new perspective on these writings and delves into questions of national identity and its limits.