Greg Barton (moderator)

Prof Greg Barton is Research Professor in Global Islamic Politics at the Alfred Deakin Institute, and Senior Fellow at Hedayah, Abu Dhabi. Greg is a regular media commentator on matters of national security and violent extremism in Australia and abroad.

Zoe Daniel

Zoe is a 27-year veteran with the ABC and Washington Bureau Chief from Dec 2015 to Dec 2019, Southeast Asia Correspondent 2010-2013, and Africa Correspondent 2004-2006. Zoe spent 4 years in the USA and at the White House, covering the election of Donald Trump, and translating the impact of his Presidency for Australians. She has reported undercover in places like Zimbabwe, Vietnam and Myanmar as has lived and worked across four continents in vastly differing cultural settings from Venezuela to India to Vanuatu to Sudan. Zoe has written three books, her most recent, with Roscoe Whalan, is ‘Greetings from Trumpland’.

Clare Corbould

A/Prof Clare Corbould is Associate Professor of North American History at Deakin University. She has written numerous articles and book chapters about twentieth-century African American history and culture. In 2009, she published Becoming African Americans: Black Public Life in Harlem, 1919-1939 (Harvard University Press). The book won the 2010 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for First Book of History.

Zim Nwokora

Dr Zim Nwokora is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and Policy Studies at Deakin University. A comparative political scientist by training, his research examines theoretical and empirical questions about political party systems, constitutional structures and democracy. This research is informed by close attention to politics in the United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom and Australia. Zim holds a bachelor’s degree (in Politics and Economics), a master’s degree (in Comparative Government), and a doctorate degree (in American Politics), all from the University of Oxford.