MEMBERS OF THE ACADEMIC ADVISORY BOARD OF THE COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES ----------------- BIOGRAPHIES As of 27 July 2017 Wojciech Sadurski (Chair) is a Challis Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Sydney and a Professor of the University of Warsaw. He has previously held a professorship at the European University Institute in Florence, and he has taught most recently at Yale Law School, New York University School of Law, Cardozo Law School in New York, the University of Toronto, and the University of Trento. He is a member of a number of supervisory or program boards, including the Institute of Public Affairs (Poland), the Freedom of Press Observatory (Poland), and the Centre for International Affairs (Poland) He has written extensively on the philosophy of law, political philosophy, and comparative constitutional law. His most recent books include Constitutionalism and the Enlargement of Europe (OUP 2012) and Equality and Legitimacy (OUP 2008). Nina Belyaeva is a Russian professor and head of the Public Policy Department at the National Research University Higher School of Economic (NRU HSE) of Moscow. She is also the founder of the Russian Political Science Association. During her career, Nina Y. Belyaeva taught courses on political science and law in the universities of Georgetown, Colorado (USA), Salzburg (Austria) and Cape Town (South Africa). Since 2000, Ms. Belyaeva has been working at the Higher School of Economics. She is also a member of the HSE Scientific Council, head of the Public Policy Department, and academic head of the Master program “Political Analysis and Public Policy”, which is the only Public Policy programme in Russia taught in English. 2 Bidyut Chakrabarty Since the completion of his doctoral studies at the London School of Economics in 1985, Professor Bidyut Chakrabarty has been associated with teaching and research in various aspects of Political Science, including the rise and consolidation of democracy in India which neither conforms to the classical conceptualization of democracy nor is derivative of the well-established Western theoretical discourses. He has taught in some of the most prestigious educational institutions such as London School of Economics, UK; Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta, India; Monash University, Australia; National University of Singapore, Singapore; and Hamburg University. Some of his books include: Forging power: coalition politics in India. (2006), Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi (2008), Indian politics and society since independence (2008). Hugh Corder is a Professor of Public Law at the University of Cape Town since 1987. He is a graduate of Cape Town, Cambridge and Oxford universities. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Law in Cape Town from 1999 to 2008, was elected as a Fellow of the university in 2004, and has written or edited twelve books and about 90 articles and chapters in books. The main focus of his research and publications has been the judicial branch of government and administrative justice. Professor Corder has throughout his career played a prominent role in non-governmental organisations resisting injustice under apartheid, opposing the death penalty, and seeking the establishment of the rule of law, both in South Africa and the region. He was part of a team of four which drafted South Africa’s first bill of rights, in 1993. 3 Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He also serves as the Peter E. Haas Faculty Director of the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford. For more than six years, he directed FSI’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, and he continues to lead its programs on Liberation Technology, Arab Reform and Democracy, and Democracy in Taiwan. He is the founding co-editor of the Journal of Democracy and also serves as Senior Consultant at the International Forum for Democratic Studies of the National Endowment for Democracy. He has also edited or co-edited more than 40 books on democratic development around the world. During 2002-3, Diamond served as a consultant to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and was a contributing author of its report Foreign Aid in the National Interest. He has also advised and lectured to the World Bank, the United Nations, the State Department, and other governmental and nongovernmental agencies dealing with governance and development. His 2005 book, Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq, was one of the first books to critically analyze America's postwar engagement in Iraq. He has also participated in several working groups on the Middle East and has collaborated with Abbas Milani in organizing a Hoover Institution Project on Democracy in Iran. 4 João Carlos Espada is the director, founder and professor of the Institute for Political Studies at the Catholic University of Portugal. He was previously a tenured Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences of the (state) University of Lisbon. Since January 2011, he holds the European Civilisation Chair at the College of Europe, Natolin Campus (Warsaw). He also taught at Brown, Stanford and Georgetown Universities in the US. He is editor of the quarterly journal Nova Cidadania and president of the Portuguese section of the International Churchill Society/Churchill Centre. He has co- founded and is a member of the Board of Directors the European Partnership for Democracy, as well as a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Democracy, having been a founding member of World Movement for Democracy and member of the steering committee of the Council for a Community of Democracies. He has authored nine books and edited another ten in political theory, all in Portuguese and several in English. He has contributed regular opinion columns to the press since 1985, presently having a weekly column at the daily newspaper Público. Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias is a Senior Researcher at the Poznań Human Rights Centre, Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, specialized in the fields of anti-discrimination law, constitutional law, freedom of speech vs. hate speech and memory laws. She authored a book on Combating Antisemitism: International Law Instruments (in Polish, Wolters Kluwer 2014) as well as a number of book chapters, articles and commentaries on international and regional human rights systems, anti- discrimination law, and the related issues. She frequently prepares analyses and expert reports for the Polish Parliament, EU Fundamental Rights Agency and various NGOs. In addition, she actively participates in various civil society activities to combat discrimination and hate speech, and is a frequent speaker in media on those issues. 5 Dalia Leinarte is a Professor and Director of the Gender Studies Centre at the Vilnius University since 2000. She is also a consultant of the Inter-Ministerial Commission on Equal Opportunities of Women and Men in Lithuania. In addition, she is a member of the Working Group for Action Plan for the Implementation of the UN Security Council Resolution 1325. Over the past 10 years, she has been a panellist for many conferences, being an expert in the gender equality field. Her teaching and research areas are: family history, women’s history, women’s movements; women and nationalisms; women and totalitarian regimes; trafficking of women; and gender mainstreaming. Soledad Loaeza is a Professor of Politics at El Colegio de México. She has worked extensively on democratization, political parties and political conservatism. She also speaks 5 languages, Spanish, French, English, german and Italian. She taught also in several universities such as the Universidad Iberoamericana, Institutor Tecnologico de Mexico and la Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico among others. Her most recent publication is La Restauración de la Iglesia católica en la Transición Mexicana, México, El Colegio de México, 2013. In 2010, she was awarded the National Prize of Arts and Sciences. She writes a bi weekly column in the Mexico City paper La Jornada. 6 Leonardo Morlino is a professor of Political Science at LUISS, Rome. He is also the President of International Political Science Association (IPSA) (2009-12). He was Bechtel Visiting Professor at Stanford University, Stanford, Ca, (USA) (2002-3); Jemolo Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford University (UK) in 1998, 2007, and 2009; visiting Professor at Institute Juan March in Madrid (Spain) in 1995-96; visiting Professor at Institute d’Etudes Politiques in Paris (France) in 1992-93, 1993-94, and 2008; and Monte dei Paschi Fellow at St. Anthony’s College, Oxford in 2010. He was co-editor of Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica from 1977 through 1991. Moreover, he was awarded the Jean Monnet Chair in European Studies in 2004. He is the author, co-author or editor of 30 volumes and of about 200 chapters in books or articles in journals, published in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Mongolian. Some of his books include: Democracy Between Consolidation and Crisis. Parties, Groups, and Citizens in Southern Europe, Oxford, Oxford University Press 1998: Democratization and the European Union. Comparing Central and Eastern European post-communist countries, London, Routledge (2010); Rule of Law and Democracy, Boston, Brill (2010). 7 Tamir Moustafa is an Associate Professor of International Studies and Stephen Jarislowsky Chair at Simon Fraser