Shana Marshall

Shana Marshall is a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute and associate director of the Institute for Middle East Studies at the George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. Her research focuses on the political economy of militaries in Egypt, Jordan, and the UAE, and has appeared in The Middle East Report, Jadaliyya, and the Carnegie Middle East Center.

Edward Ongweso Jr.

Edward Ongweso Jr is a writer and editor based in Brooklyn, focusing on finance, technology, and labor. He is currently the finance editor at Logic(s) magazine and was previously a staff writer at Motherboard, VICE's tech desk. He's also the co-host of This Machine Kills, a podcast focused on the political economy of technological innovation.

Jonathan Guyer

Jonathan Guyer is a senior foreign policy writer at Vox. From 2019 to 2021, he worked at the American Prospect, where as managing editor he reported on Biden’s and Trump's foreign policy teams. His accountability stories have won top prizes from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers and Society of Professional Journalists.

Madison Lipson

Madison Lipson is a research analyst at Swaps Monitor Publications, a financial data vendor in New York City. She recently completed a masters in International Business and Negotiation at the Universidad de Salamanca. Her research focuses on the effect reconciliation and peacebuilding have on domestic security in post-conflict states.

William Hartung (Moderator)

William D. Hartung is a senior research fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. His work focuses on the arms industry and U.S. military budget. He is the author of "Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex" (Nation Books, 2011), and the co-editor of "Lessons from Iraq: Avoiding the Next War"(Paradigm Press, 2008).