Scott Lucas

Scott Lucas is Professor of American Studies at the University of Birmingham, where he has worked since 1989. A specialist in US and British foreign policy, he has written and edited seven books, more than 30 major articles, and a radio documentary and co-directed the 2007 film Laban!. He is currently finishing a book on US foreign policy under President George W. Bush.

Formerly a journalist in the United States, Scott has written for newspapers including The Guardian and The Independent and was an essayist for The New Statesman. He appears regularly on British, American, and international radio and television as a specialist on current affairs, politics, and history. His blog began life as Watching America at Libertas: The Centre For US Foreign Policy.

A native of Alabama in the United States, Scott is assisted by his wife and two children, one of whom has his own political blog, and is plagued by his loyalty to Leeds United Football Club. He is also a proud member of Red Sox Nation.

Scott also runs the widely-respected blog on US foreign policy, Enduring America, available at www.enduringamerica.com

Jamie Shea

Jamie Shea is Director of Policy Planning in the Private Office of the Secretary General responsible for advising and assisting the Secretary General, senior NATO management, and the North Atlantic Council in addressing strategic issues facing the Alliance. His current external, academic positions include: Professor, Collège d'Europe, Bruges; Lecturer, Brussels School of International Studies, University of Kent; Associate Professor of International Relations, American University, Washington DC; Director of the Brussels Overseas Study Programme; Adjunct Associate Professor of International Relations, James Madison College, Michigan State University - Director of the MSU Summer School in Brussels; External Advisor, Post-graduate curriculum development, University of Sussex; Chair of Transatlantic Programme, Royal Holloway College, University of London.

Dr. Shea earned a D.Phil. In Modern History from Oxford University (Lincoln College) 1981, his thesis is titled "European Intellectuals and the Great War 1914-1918".

Marcel Wissenburg

Marcel Wissenburg started out as a student of political science at the University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands, in 1980, switching in 1985 to philosophy and (with a brief stopover at Leiden University in 1987-8) political theory. He graduated in 1988 as a political theorist with an MA thesis on Karl Popper's anti-utopianism, and as a philosopher with an MA thesis on William Morris' and Edward Bellamy's utopias. He completed his PhD at the University of Nijmegen in 1994.

From 1990 on, he held various positions in the Faculty of Management Sciences at the Radboud University Nijmegen: junior researcher (1990-1994), postdoctoral research fellow of the Netherlands Foundation for Scientific Research (NWO; 1995-1998), and Lecturer of Political Theory & the Philosophy of the Policy Sciences (1998-2005). In addition, he taught as a guest lecturer in the Department of Political Science of the University of Leiden and as a temporary lecturer in social and political philosophy at the University of Groningen (1999-2000). From 1999 to 2001, he was also part-time staff member of the Faculty's research school, then called Nijmegen Centre (NICE) for Business, Environment and Government.

In 2004, his interest in environmental philosophy and green political theory resulted in a second job. From 1 September 2004 to 1 September 2009, he was the Socrates Professor of Humanist Philosophy (full title: 'in particular with regard to the relation between humanity and nature') at Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, the Netherlands. For more information on this position, see Socrates Professorship.

From January 2006 to December 2009, he was 'Professor of Political Theory, in particular political and personal autonomy' in the department of political science at Radboud University. In this temporary position, his task was to rejuvenate and boost both research and teaching in political theory. For his plans with this chair, see Political Theory Professorship. On 1 December 2009, the professorship became permanent, and the title was abbreviated to 'Professor of Political Theory'.

Offering new opportunities for research and teaching in environmental political theory, not to mention staff and student exchanges with Nijmegen, Marcel Wissenburg was granted the title of Visiting Professor at the Research Institute for Law, Politics & Justice of Keele University in Keele, Staffordshire, UK per 1 July 2009.

www.wissenburg.com