Benedict Kingsbury is Vice Dean and Murry and Ida Becker Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. He also serves as Director of the Institute for International Law and Justice and Faculty Director of the Guarini Institute for Global Legal Studies. His major current projects focus on large scale global ordering such as TPP and the Belt & Road Initiative; physical, digital, and informational infrastructure; and global data/tech law. He is one of the editors (with Andrew Hurrell of Oxford University, and Richard B. Stewart) of the Law and Global Governance series. His research projects on global governance issues have been supported by the National Science Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation.David M. Malone is UN Under-Secretary General and Rector of the United Nations University. Malone previously served as President of Canada's International Development Research Centre; Canada's Representative to the UN Economic and Social Council and as Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations; as Director General of the Policy, International Organizations and Global Issues Bureaus within Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade; as President of the International Peace Academy (now International Peace Institute); as DFAIT Assistant Deputy Minister for Global Issues; and as Canada's High Commissioner to India, and non-resident Ambassador to Bhutan and Nepal (2006-2008).Paul Mertenskötter is a Fellow at the Institute for International Law and Justice at NYU Law and a PhD candidate at Humboldt University of Berlin. He was a law clerk at the International Court of Justice and holds a JD from NYU Law and a BA from the University of York.Richard B. Stewart (1940-2023) was University Professor and John Edward Sexton Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. Prior to joining the NYU School of Law faculty, he served as a Byrne Professor of Administrative Law at Harvard Law School and a member of the faculty of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard; Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Environment and Natural Resource Division of the U.S. Department of Justice; and Chairman of the Environmental Defense Fund.Thomas Streinz is Adjunct Professor of Law at NYU Law and a Fellow at the Institute for International Law and Justice. Prior to moving to New York, he studied law at the University of Bayreuth and Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich. He holds the EUI's Diploma in European law and an LLM from NYU Law.Atsushi Sunami is currently Professor and Vice President at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan. He also serves as Special Advisor to Cabinet Office responsible for Science and Technology and Innovation. He is also a member of the Advisory Board for the Promotion of Science and Technology Diplomacy in Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, the Council for Science and Technology in Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and the Expert Panel on Basic Policy in Council for Science, Technology and Innovation of Cabinet office.
