Magda Long received her doctorate from King's College London and is a research fellow at several academic institutions in the United Kingdom and the United States.

Rory Cormac is a professor of international relations at the University of Nottingham.

Genevieve Lester is the lead for intelligence on the Afghanistan War Commission and an associate fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Mark Stout, now retired, is the former director of the Master's in Global Security Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University and a former intelligence officer.

Damien Van Puyvelde is an associate professor and chairs the Intelligence and Security Research Group of the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University.