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Contributors, International Affairs, Volume 92, Issue 6, November 2016, Pages iii–v, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2346.12789
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TIM BENTON is Professor of Population Ecology at the University of Leeds and Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Energy, Environment and Resources Department at Chatham House. From 2011 to 2016 he was the ‘Champion’ of the UK’s Global Food Security (GFS) programme. The key role of GFS during his tenure was to undertake systemic analysis and horizon scanning, in order to identify research priorities to mitigate the challenges of providing sufficient, sustainable and nutritious diets for all. In addition, he has published over 150 academic papers, many on the topics of agriculture and its sustainability. His particular interest is currently on food system resilience in the face of climate change.
AMITAI ETZIONI is a University Professor and a Professor of International Relations at The George Washington University. He is the author of Foreign policy: thinking outside the box (2016); Hot spots: American foreign policy in a post-human rights world (2012); From empire to community (2004); Security first: for a muscular, moral foreign policy (2008) and Political unification revisited (2002). He has served as a Senior Advisor to the White House and as the President of the American Sociological Association. He has taught at Columbia University, Harvard University and University of California, Berkeley. He was listed as one of the top 100 American intellectuals in Richard Posner’s book Public intellectuals.
