Matthew B. Crawford

Matthew B. Crawford studied physics as an undergraduate, then did a doctorate in the history of political thought at the University of Chicago. He is a senior fellow at the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. His books, translated into ten languages, could be described as philosophically informed cultural criticism, often with an historical angle. The erosion of individual agency and collective self-government under technocracy is a recurring theme.

Martin Libicki

Martin Libicki holds the Keyser Chair of cybersecurity studies at the U.S. Naval Academy. In addition to teaching, he carries out research in cyberwar and the general impact of information technology on domestic and national security. He is the author of a 2016 textbook on cyberwar, Cyberspace in Peace and War, as well as two others commercially published books, Conquest in Cyberspace: National Security and Information Warfare, and Information Technology Standards: Quest for the Common Byte. He is also the author of numerous RAND monographs, notably Defender’s Dilemma, Brandishing Cyberattack Capabilities, Crisis and Escalation in Cyberspace, Global Demographic Change and its Implications for Military Power, Cyberdeterrence and Cyberwar, How Insurgencies End (with Ben Connable), and How Terrorist Groups End (with Seth Jones).

David Lyon

David Lyon is Former Director of the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. Educated at the University of Bradford UK, Lyon has been studying surveillance since the mid-1980s. A pioneer in the field of Surveillance Studies, he has produced a steady stream of books – translated in to 18 languages – and articles, starting with The Electronic Eye (1994). The latest is Pandemic Surveillance (2022). He has led several large collaborative research projects on surveillance, with research funding totalling almost $8 million. His work has been recognized in Canada, Switzerland, the USA and the UK with a number of fellowships, prizes, awards and an honorary doctorate.

Alex Thomson

Alex Thomson MA (Cantab, Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic) is Commissioning Editor at UK Column (ukcolumn.org). He was an intelligence officer at GCHQ from 2001 to 2009, specialising in the South Caucasus, where he had previously lived and worked. He lives in the Netherlands and has been a UK Column News correspondent since 2014, researching and commenting on European politics, security and intelligence affairs, constitutional matters, and religious and conscientious liberty. As a conference interpreter, he works freelance for diplomatic organisations and international legal bodies.