Sarang Shidore

Sarang Shidore is Director of the Global South program at the Quincy Institute and a senior non-resident fellow at the Council on Strategic Risks. His areas of research and analysis are geopolitical risk, grand strategy, and energy/climate security, with a special emphasis on Asia and the Global South.  

Samar al-Bulushi

​Samar Al-Bulushi is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute and Assistant Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Irvine. She is a contributing editor at Africa is a Country and has published in a variety of public outlets on topics ranging from the International Criminal Court to the militarization of U.S. policy in Africa.

Filipe Nasser

​Filipe Nasser is a Brazilian career diplomat, currently serving as a Senior Advisor to Brazil’s Foreign Minister, H.E. Ambassador Mauro Vieira. Previously he was Head of the Division for the Affairs of the Sea, Antarctica & Outer Space in Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Nasser has also held postings at the U.N. and the Brazilian embassy in Washington D.C.

Trita Parsi (Moderator)

Trita Parsi is the Executive Vice President at the Quincy Institute. He was the 2010 recipient of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order and was named by the Washingtonian Magazine as one of the 25 most influential voices on foreign policy in Washington D.C. in both 2021 and 2022. Parsi is an expert on the geopolitics of the Middle East.