Ian J. Stewart is a senior researcher in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, where he heads Project Alpha. He is also the training advisor for the consortium implementing the European Union’s Partner-2-Partner program on dual-use goods. He is a specialist on issues related to export controls, sanctions, and nonproliferation more generally. An engineer by training, Ian has many years of experience in government and working with companies and international organisations in relation to nonproliferation matters. He was also a research fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Ian is undertaking a part-time PhD in which he examines the evolution of the nonproliferation regime through the lens of collective action. Research for this PhD has taken him to nearly every US presidential archive–from Truman to Reagan–and he has amassed more than 50,000 pages of original primary source materials from archive sources.

Gena Cuba is a design strategist who focuses on reframing large, complex problems in surprisingly simple ways. She spends her time carefully observing and inquiring about the curiosities that we call home, community, work, and purpose. Through ongoing investigations of cultural mores and individual motivations, her work turns observations into empathetic diagnosis and clear roadmaps of action.

Allison has been an imagery analyst for over 25 years, working within the military, tech, defense, media, and academic communities. After honorably serving in the US Army as an imagery analyst from 1991 to 1997, she continued the tradecraft within the defense industry, augmenting US and NATO operations in the Kosovo airstrike campaign and serving as senior analyst and mission planner for Naval Special Warfare Group One. After earning her MA in international policy, Allison established the commercial satellite imagery analysis capability for the British publication Jane’s, publishing open source imagery analysis for six years. In 2015, she joined Google to assist with the establishment of applications for its commercial small satellites. Currently, Allison is principal and founder of Armillary Services, which provides insight on commercial imaging satellites and associated analytics to governments, nongovernmental organizations, and the commercial sector. Concurrently, Allison manages the multi-sensor imagery analysis team at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation.

I’m most excited to work on projects that… inspire diverse groups of people to come together and use their individual strengths in order to collectively collaborate for a common goal.

I’m looking for partners that can help me… leverage companies’ internal creative cultures in order to strengthen their external influence and impact.

A moment when I felt most inspired in my work was… when our thesis team repositioned the American Dream through the lens of The Pursuit of Happiness.

Innovations in my field I’m most excited to work on… involve the increased importance of internal culture and network dynamics — including tools and methods that foster strong cultures and create purpose in the professional and personal lives of employees.

Ariel is director of media and outreach for the Future of Life Institute. She heads collaborations with various organizations, and she oversees all online outreach and communication efforts, covering a range of fields, including the safety of artificial intelligence (AI), AI policy, autonomous weapons, nuclear weapons, biotechnology, and climate change. She holds bachelor’s degrees in English and physics and a master’s in geophysics, and has nearly two decades of experience mixing advertising, marketing, and scientific research. She’s worked with NASA, the Idaho National Laboratory, the National Energy Technology Laboratory, MIT, and Virginia Tech. Ariel also recently founded Mag10 Media, an organization dedicated to improving science communication.