Michael A. Innes, Editor & Publisher
Mike Innes is founder and Editor of Current Intelligence. From 2003 to 2009, he was a civilian staffer with NATO, and has lived or worked in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Belgium, and the United Kingdom. His writing has been published in such online outlets as Foreign Policy, Wired, and CNN, and he has edited several books: Making Sense of Proxy Wars: States, Surrogates and the Use of Force (Potomac Books, 2010), Denial of Sanctuary: Understanding Terrorist Safe Havens (Praeger, 2007), Bosnian Security After Dayton: New Perspectives (Routledge, 2006). He is a regular contributor to Foreign Policy magazine's AfPak Channel.

Eric Randolph, Deputy Editor
Eric Randolph divides his time between the UK and India. He is a freelance journalist and analyst, writing about issues of security, international relations and general goings-on of the subcontinent. He is a former analyst and editor at Jane's Country Risk in London, and was a senior reporter at various regional newspapers in the UK prior to that. He has an MA in International Relations from King's College London, with a special interest in terrorism, insurgency and the role of ideology and faith in conflict. He edits The India Desk and writes Subcontinental, Current Intelligence magazine's blog about India and its neighbours. He is currently The National's Foreign Correspondent in New Delhi.

Adam Weinstein, Staff Writer
Adam Weinstein is the copy editor for Mother Jones magazine, based in San Francisco. He has worked as an editor at the Wall Street Journal and as a reporter for the Village Voice, and his writing has been published in the New York Times, the Village Voice, Mother Jones magazine, and Newsweek.com. For eight months in 2008 and 2009, Adam assisted U.S. troops as a public affairs specialist in Iraq. He is a graduate of the Columbia University School of Journalism.

Zach Peterson, Content Editor
Zachary Peterson is a Media Affairs Specialist with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Prior to joining RFE/RL, he spent three years in Washington, D.C. as National Legislative Director for a trade union in the airline industry. Zach received his bachelor's degree from the University of St. Thomas (MN), and will pursue a master's in Balkan, Eurasian and Central European studies at Charles University starting in the Fall of 2010. He lives in Prague with his wife.

Christopher R. Albon, Contributing Editor
Christopher Albon is a Ph.D. candidate specializing in armed conflict, public health, human security, and health diplomacy. Christopher could talk about them forever. He lives in San Francisco with his wife Jen, but they recently relocated to Durban, South Africa to conduct fieldwork for a year.

John Matthew Barlow, Books Editor
John Matthew Barlow, PhD, teaches at John Abbott College, and divides his time between Montreal and rural New England. From 1998-2006, he was a research consultant for a major research firm in Ottawa. His research examines notions of culture, history, memory, diaspora, and the urban landscape. At Current Intelligence, he manages original and H-Net book reviews.

Charli Carpenter, Contributing Editor
Charli Carpenter is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and the author of Innocent Women and Children: Gender, Norms and the Protection of Civilians (Ashgate, 2006), and Forgetting Children Born of War: Setting the Human Rights Agenda in Bosnia and Beyond (Columbia University Press, 2010). She has served as a consultant for the United Nations.

Josh Cochran, Contributing Illustrator
Josh Cochran is an illustrator working in Brooklyn, New York. His award winning illustrations have been commissioned by notable clients such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Wired, Times, Newsweek, The Dubai Metro, The Discovery Channel, and Pepsi. He is part of the adjunct Illustration faculty at Parsons, The New School.

Faisal Devji, Columnist
Faisal Devji is University Reader in Modern South Asian History at St. Antony's College, Oxford University, and the author of two books, Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity (2005), and The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics (2009).

Bryan Finoki, Contributing Editor
Bryan Finoki is the author of Subtopia, a blog exploring the shadowy intersection between architecture, urbanism, militarism, border space and geopolitics.  He’s been an invited speaker to a range of international events, and has contributed as a writer to numerous publications investigating the politics of space. He is an adjunct faculty member at Woodbury University’s School of Architecture in San Diego, California.

Joshua Foust, Contributing Editor
Joshua Foust spends much of his time discussing the social and cultural aspects of American foreign policy. He works closely with Global Voices Online and other organizations to promote citizen media in underserved areas. He has lived in Kazakhstan and Afghanistan, and has extensive experience working on Post-Soviet Central Asia. He writes about the region at Registan.net, which is quoted routinely by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, Reuters, and World Politics Review. He is a regular contributor to the Columbia Journalism Review and World Politics Review, and contributes to Need to Know on PBS.

James Harkin, Associate Editor
James Harkin is a social forecaster and writer for the Financial Times and The Guardian newspapers. He is the author of Cyburbia and The Big Ideas.

Harald Heubaum, Contributing Editor
Harald Heubaum is a Teaching Fellow in Global Environmental Politics at University College London, and teaches Global Energy and Climate Policy at the School of Oriental and African Studies' Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy (CISD). Past professional experience includes stints at the German Federal Parliament in Berlin, the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), and a German party foundation in Nairobi, Kenya. He holds an MA in Political Science and is currently working on a PhD at University College London. He specializes in environmental policy, global climate governance and the (geo-)politics of energy.

Kenneth Payne, Contributing Editor and Columnist
Ken Payne is a lecturer at Kings College London. In 2008, he was a visiting fellow at Oxford University's Reuters Institute, conducting research on propaganda and ideology. Prior to his academic career, he was a BBC news producer, and worked for its World At One, PM, and Panorama programmes.

Greg J. Smith, Columnist
Greg J. Smith is a Toronto-based designer and researcher with interests in media theory and digital culture. His work is invested in exploring how contemporary information paradigms affect representational and spatial systems. These dynamics have been explored in a range of mediums including drawing, visualization, writing and editing. Greg is a principal designer at Mission Specialist, he co-curates and edits the digital arts publication Vague Terrain and he has contributed to Rhizome and many other online art & technology publications.

Tim Stevens, Contributing Editor
Tim Stevens is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of War Studies, King's College London. He is an Associate of the Centre for Science & Security Studies, and Associate Fellow of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation & Political Violence. His research examines the relationships between cyberspace, conflict, politics, and security.

Marisa Urgo, Contributing Editor
Marisa Urgo is a senior open source intelligence analyst supporting defense and energy programs in Washington, DC. She was a senior counter-terrorism and energy security analyst at the U.S. Department of Energy from 2003-2008. She has also held counter-terrorism and management positions at the FBI and Raytheon Company. She's a professional librarian, holding an MS in Library Science (1995) and a BA in English (1991).

Kazys Varnelis, Senior Editor
Kazys is Director of the Network Architecture Lab at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. Together with Robert Sumrell, he also runs the non-profit architectural collective AUDC.  He is editor of the Infrastructural City, Networked Publics, and the Philip Johnson Tapes: Interviews by Robert A. M. Stern, all published in 2008.

Tony Waters, Contributing Editor
Tony Waters, PhD., is a Professor of Sociology at California State University, Chico. He has also taught at Zeppelin University, Germany, and the University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. Prior to academia, he worked for refugee assistance programs from the Lutheran World Federation in Tanzania before, during, and after the Rwanda genocide. He also lived and worked in Thailand from 1980-1983 as first a Peace Corps Volunteer, and later as a refugee camp worker. He is the author of Crime and Immigrant Youth (1999), Bureaucratizing the Good Samaritan (2001), The Persistence of Subsistence Agriculture (2007), and When Killing is a Crime (2007).

Jon Western, Columnist
Jon Western is Five College Professor of International Relations at Mount Holyoke College, and the author of Selling Intervention and War: The Presidency, the Media, and the American Public (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005).