Dr. John P. Sullivan retired as a lieutenant with the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. He is an Instructor in the Safe Communities Institute, University of Southern California. He has a PhD from the Open University of Catalonia, an MA from the New School for Social Research, and a BA from the College of William and Mary. He received a lifetime achievement award from the National Fusion Center Association in November 2018 for his contributions to the national network of fusion centers. He is an instructor in the 40th Infantry Division Urban Warfare Planners Course and a Member of the Urban Violence Research Network (UVRN) and the Network of Experts at the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC)

Dr. Nathan P. Jones is an Associate Professor of Security Studies in the College of Criminal Justice at Sam Houston State University. He is the author of Mexico's Illicit Drug Networks and the State Reaction (2016) with Georgetown University Press. His areas of interest include organized crime violence in Mexico, social network analysis, border security, and the political economy of homeland security. Dr. Jones is also a Senior Fellow with the Small Wars Journal–El Centro, a Rice University Baker Institute Drug Policy and US-Mexico Center non-resident scholar, and the book review editor for the Journal of Strategic Security.

Dr. Daniel Weisz Argomedo earned his PhD in Political Science at the University of California Irvine with a focus on International Relations and Comparative Studies. His dissertation focused on the war on drugs and its impact on women’s security in Mexico. He holds an M.A. in Political Science from San Diego State University where he wrote a dissertation on ‘Hacktivism and social movements; and earned a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Alberta where he wrote a thesis on the Mexican war on drugs. He wrote “Climate Change, Drug Traffickers and La Sierra Tarahumara” for the special issue on climate change and global security at the Journal of Strategic Security. He is fluent in Spanish and his research interests include cyberwarfare, the environment, the war on drugs, women’s security and contemporary Latin American politics and history

Carolina Andrade Quevedo holds a Master's Degree in Political Science, with a concentration in Public Affairs from the Panthéon-Sorbonne University. She has more than twelve years of leadership experience in Public and State Security, as well as Strategic Intelligence. Between 2018-2020, she served as a regional adviser to the United Nations on peace and security, climate action, women in power, and global governance. In this framework, Carolina conducted field research in Africa and the Middle East and accompanied diplomatic negotiations in the Americas. Recently, she acted as a regional advisor for the Climate and Security Program of the Igarapé Institute. Currently, Carolina is Secretary of Security of Quito

Dr. José de Arimatéia da Cruz is Currently Visiting Research Professor at the Center for Strategic Leadership, Homeland Defense and Security Studies, Strategic Landpower Futures Group at the United States Army War College in Carlisle, PA. and Professor of International Relations and Comparative Politics at Georgia Southern University, Savannah Campus, Savannah, GA. Dr. da Cruz received his Ph.D. from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in Comparative Politics and International Relations. His publications have appeared in the Journal of Advanced Military Studies, International Journal of Security Studies & Practice, International Social Science Review, and Journal of Global South Studies. He is the editor of Xenophobia and Nativism in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean 2023 (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Africa)

David J.H. Burden has been a wargamer and wargame designer for around 50 years—although ironically not for the 10 years he spent in the British Army. David founded his software & consultancy company Daden in 2004. Working with MOD to automatically generate social media to support urban wargames David developed a wider interest in the issues of urban conflict and how they could best be war-gamed. David started his part-time PhD on wargaming urban conflict at Bath Spa University under Dr John Curry in early 2022, and is currently researching the unique features of urban warfare and how it has been war-gamed in the past. Alongside the research David is also designing new urban wargames looking at different aspects of the challenge. David is an ex-Royal Signals officer, a Chartered European Engineer, a TEDx presenter, and is currently also series co-editor for Taylor & Francis on their Metaverse Series of books.

Michael L. Burgoyne is a former US Army Foreign Area Officer, he served in various policy and security cooperation positions in the Americas including assignments as the Army Attaché in Mexico, the Andean Ridge Desk Officer at US Army South, and the Senior Defense Official in Guatemala. He deployed twice in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in command and staff positions and served as the Defense Attaché in Kabul, Afghanistan. He is the co-author of The Defense of Jisr al-Doreaa, a tactical primer on counterinsurgency. He holds an M.A. in Strategic Studies from the US Army War College and an M.A. in Security Studies from Georgetown University. He is a professor of Practice at the University of Arizona.n goes here

Fausto Carbajal-Glass is a researcher and consultant on political risk and security. He holds a BA in International Relations from Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, a Master degree in War Studies from King’s College London, and graduated from the Strategy and Defense Policy course from the National Defense University, Washington D.C. He has worked for the Mexican government, particularly for the Ministries of the Interior and Foreign Affairs. He is member of the Urban Violence Research Network (UVRN), the Strategic Hub for Organized Crime Research (SHOC-RUSI), the European Consortium for Political Research –Standing Group on Organized Crime (ECPR-SGOC), the World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF), the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations (COMEXI), and Mexico Research Centre for Peace (CIPMEX). He has also served as a non-resident fellow of the Mexican Navy Institute for Strategic Research (ININVESTAM). He is lecturer of the BA in Strategic Intelligence at Universidad Anáhuac Mexico, where he teaches the module “Trends in Organized Crime.” His analyses on the crime-conflict compound, the conflict-security-development nexus and the evolution of organized crime have appeared in newspapers as well as academic and policy publications

Alex Case is a former UK Royal Marine and now COO of Cordillera Applications Group, a diversified consulting company providing services in the US and Europe for defense and commercial clients. He has provided support as both a serving NATO staff officer and a consultant to NATO since 2008.

Andrew Craig graduated with Honours in Geology from the University of St Andrews in 1997 and worked in the UK oil industry before completing a master’s degree in Mineral Exploration at the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College London. He started his own independent geological consultancy in 2002 focusing on exploration and development in the minerals sector. Having worked with a range of mining companies Drew has developed strong management and communication skills at both corporate and operational levels. He commands a wide range of practical field skills with specializations in remote exploration, target generation and early-stage project development. Drew has served as a reservist in the British Army for over 30 years, currently as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Royal Engineers. He has served in a range of roles, including defense and geospatial intelligence, infrastructure support, explosive ordnance disposal and search, and civil-military cooperation. He has deployed on operations in Iraq and supported capacity development in several African states. Whilst serving as the British Army’s principal geologist, he managed a team of specialists, supporting homebase and overseas taskings, notably around subterranean operations, infrastructure assessments, HADR, resilience, and natural resources. He maintains a keen interest in the military geosciences and is the secretary for the International Association for Military Geosciences. Drew is a Fellow of the Geological Society of London and a Chartered Engineer registered with the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.

Dr. Magdalena Denham is a Professor of Practice at Sam Houston State University, College of Criminal Justice, Department of Security Studies. Her research on homeland security and emergency management (HSEM) focuses on social and organizational impacts of disasters and on emergency response. She has worked with vulnerable populations in pre-disaster and post-disaster contexts and conducted extensive post-hurricane field research. She has published mixed methods and qualitative studies in school policing, emergency management and response, homeland security policy, homeland security education, community engagement, leadership, and HSEM policy. Her recent focus has been on public health within disaster response to include the role of healthcare coalitions in health preparedness and response, crisis communications, and state and regional public health disaster response capabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her prior professional experiences in federal law enforcement and in higher education support her teaching philosophy, grounded in social aspects of learning and collaborative practice.

Dr. James M. Duggan is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Anna Maria College in Paxton, MA. Dr. Duggan honorably retired from the Massachusetts State Police (MSP) in 2018 after 25 years of service. He retired as a Detective Lieutenant, commanding the MSP’s Anti-Terrorism Unit. Dr. Duggan was a member of FBI Boston’s Joint Terrorism Task Force for five years before his retirement. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Academic and professional awards bestowed upon Dr. Duggan include UMass Lowell’s Outstanding PhD Student (2022) and Amy Finn Human Spirit Award (2022), an Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Doctoral Summit fellowship (2019), FBI Boston’s Award of Excellence for contributions to the Marathon bombing response and investigation (2013), the New England Narcotic Enforcement Officers’ Association Enrique Camarena Memorial Award (2010), and the Latham–Moynihan Award for contributions to the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office Detective Unit.

María Fe Vallejo holds a double major in Political Science and International Relations from Universidad San Francisco de Quito. She has conducted research at the Climate and Security Program at Igarapé Institute. Currently, she is a Research Assistant at FARO, an Ecuadorian research center, in the Democracy, Transparency and Active Citizenship Area.

Amos Fox is a PhD candidate at the University of Reading and a freelance writer and conflict scholar writing for the Association of the United States Army. His research and writing focus on the theory of war and warfare, proxy war, future armed conflict, urban warfare, armored warfare and the Russo-Ukrainian War. Amos has published in Comparative Strategy, RUSI Journal, and Small Wars and Insurgencies among many other publications. He has also been a guest on numerous podcasts, including Royal United Services Institute’s Western Way of War, This Means War, the Dead Prussian Podcast, Voices of War, and History Hit’s Warfare.

Major Jayson Geroux is an infantry officer with The Royal Canadian Regiment within the Canadian Armed Forces.  He has been a fervent student of urban warfare and an urban operations instructor for over two decades, having participated in, planned, executed and intensively conducted lectures and training exercises on the subject internationally, and was involved in urban operations events while overseas in the Former Yugoslavia (Bosnia-Herzegovina) and Afghanistan. He is an equally passionate military historian and has discussed and written about various urban warfare historical case studies, both online and in-person around the world for a majority of his military career.  He holds his Masters Degree from the University of New Brunswick, in which his thesis focused on the urban battle of Ortona, Italy (20-27 December 1943) during the Second World War (1939-1945). 

Dr. Russell W. Glenn spent sixteen years in the think tank community as a senior defense analyst after retiring from the US Army, later joining the faculty of Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at The Australian National University. His education includes a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Military Academy and master’s degrees from the University of Southern California, Stanford University, and the U.S. Army’s School of Advanced Military Studies. He earned his PhD in American history from the University of Kansas. He is the author of over fifty books or book-length reports on urban operations and other security-related topics. His most recent book, Come Hell or High Fever: Readying the World’s Megacities for Disaster, is available for free download at http://doi.org/10.22459/CHHF.2023 or purchasable on Amazon. His forthcoming book, Brutal Catalyst: What Ukraine’s Cities Tell Us About Recovery From War, wlll be published fall 2024, learn more here: https://www.ukrainecities.com/.

Dr. Anthony King is the Chair of War Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. He has published widely on the armed forces. His most recent book, Urban Warfare in the Twenty-First Century, was published by Polity in 2021. A second edition will appear next year. He is currently writing a book on AI and military transformation

Dr. David Kilcullen is President and CEO of the multinational research and analysis firm Cordillera Applications Group, headquartered in Denver Colorado, with branches in the US, UK, Australia, and Singapore. Cordillera works with defence research and development agencies such as DARPA in the United States, Dstl in the UK, the NATO Science and Technology organisation, and several leading technology companies, along with global banks and agencies of the US and allied governments. David is a theorist and practitioner of irregular and unconventional warfare, with over 25 years of operational experience with the Australian Army, and service with Australia’s Office of National Intelligence and with the U.S. State Department. He served in Iraq as senior counterinsurgency advisor to General David Petraeus, then as senior counterterrorism advisor to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, deploying to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Libya, and Colombia. He is the author of eight books and numerous scholarly papers on terrorism, insurgency, urbanization, advanced military technology, special operations, and future warfare. He was named as one of Foreign Policy’s top 100 global thinkers in 2009, and was awarded the 2015 Walkley Award (Australia’s equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize) for his war reporting on the rise of Islamic State. He also serves as Professor of International and Political Studies and Head of the Future Operations Research Group at the University of New South Wales, Australia’s leading STEM university.

Dr. Jorge Mantilla is a political scientist, who holds PhD in Criminology Law and Justice from UIC Chicago. He has worked as a practitioner and analyst with public agencies and international organizations on topics related to armed conflict, public safety, and drug policy. His current interests are criminal governance, proxy wars, and organized violence.

Dr. Nadav Morag is Professor of Security Studies and Chair of the Department of Security Studies at Sam Houston State University. He is the author of Comparative Homeland Security: Global Lessons, Wiley, 2018, and previously served as a Senior Director at Israel's National Security Council, where he developed recommendations for national security policy for the Prime Minister and Cabinet.

Sahr Muhammedally is Senior Faculty Associate at the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation University, Defense Security Cooperation Agency, where she teaches, trains, and advises on civilian protection, urban warfare, and emerging technologies. The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Department of Defense. Prior to joining the DoD, Sahr was the inaugural MENA regional director at the Center for Civilians in Conflict where she led a team of 45, engaged with governments and militaries on civilian protection, and oversaw research and training with militaries on civilian harm mitigation. Sahr is a Fellow at the 40th Infantry Division Urban Warfare Center and has worked at Human Rights Watch and Human Rights First and practiced law in New York.

Dinesh Napal is a SJD candidate at American University Washington College of Law. His doctoral research seeks to explore the relevance of Hannah Arendt’s theorisations on the ‘banality of evil’ and Michel Foucault’s work on thanatopolitics to international law concerning remote weapons. He is particularly interested in the interaction between national security, the proliferation of drone technologies in the military-industrial complex, and power's relationship to legal subjectivity. Mr. Napal received his LLM in Law, Development and Globalisation from SOAS University of London, and his BA in Law and Sociology from the University of Warwick.

Gordon Pendleton is a former Royal Air Force Officer and is now the Managing Director of Cordillera Applications Group, UK Limited. He led the NATO HQ SACT Urbanization Program from 2013 to 2017 and participated in all the NATO urban and urban littoral wargames. For the NATO MDO in UE 2023 wargame he designed and delivered the wargame scenario and vignettes and was a key member of the modeling and simulation development team. He continues to deliver urban training, capability development and urban wargaming to military and commercial clients.

John Spencer is Chair of Urban Warfare Studies at the Modern War Institute, co-director of MWI’s Urban Warfare Project, and host of the Urban Warfare Project Podcast. He served twenty-five years as an infantry soldier, which included two combat tours in Iraq. He is the author of Connected Soldiers: Life, Leadership, and Social Connections in Modern War, the author of the Mini-Manual for the Urban Defender and co-author of Understanding Urban Warfare. 

Dr. Jacob Stoil is the Chair of Applied History at West Point Modern War Institute, an Associate Professor of Military History at the US Army School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS), Senior Fellow of 40th ID Urban Warfare Center, Assistant Director of the Second World War Research Group (North America), and Trustee of the US Commission on Military History, and a founding member of the International Working Group on Subterranean Warfare. Dr. Stoil received his doctorate in History from the University of Oxford. He holds a BA in War Studies and an MA in History of Warfare from the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. Dr. Stoil’s doctoral work focused on irregular warfare in the Middle East and Horn of Africa during the Second World War. He regularly publishes award winning articles on topics related to military history, irregular warfare, contemporary warfare, as well as Middle Eastern security and has presented his scholarly work at academic conferences around the world. He has given lectures on military history in universities across three continents including University of Haifa, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, Georgetown, and Oxford. Dr. Stoil’s career focuses on developing deep academic expertise and applying rigorous historical research to help inform contemporary operational, strategic, and policy discussions. In addition to his more traditional academic work, Dr. Stoil specializes in applying history to contemporary operational and policy challenges. Dr. Stoil helped to establish the curriculum for the US Army’s Urban Warfare Planner’s Course. He has served as an expert advisor to a number of US military organizations, units, and commands. Since October 7th, 2023 ,Dr. Stoil has studied Israel’s war against Hamas and worked to help develop and disseminate its lessons to US military and security practitioners.

Dr. Louise Tumchewics is a visiting fellow in the Department of War Studies, King's College London. She is the editor and contributing author of Small Armies, Big Cities: Rethinking Urban Warfare.