Elise Stephenson is a multi-award-winning researcher, strategist and entrepreneur, and Deputy Director at the Global Institute for Women's Leadership, Australian National University (ANU). She is an inaugural member of the Gender and Diplomacy Network at the University of Gothenburg, the Gender, Space and National Security Fellow at the ANU's National Security College, and an Adjunct at Griffith Asia Institute. Her book, The Face of the Nation: Gendered Institutions in International Affairs is awarded the 2024 Bertha Lutz Prize for the best public writing on women in diplomacy, and the 2024 Crisp Prize Commendation from the Australian Political Sciences Association.

Khushi Singh Rathore holds a PhD in International Politics from the Centre for International Politics, Organization and Disarmament (CIPOD) at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. She is an inaugural member of the Gender and Diplomacy Network at the University of Gothenburg and is Associate Editor for The Hague Journal of Diplomacy. Her doctoral thesis entitled 'Women in Early Years of India's Foreign Policy: Evaluating the Role of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit' is a pioneering study on women in Indian diplomacy. Her research interests are Gender and Diplomacy, Feminist IR, Diplomatic History, Indian foreign policy and Asian foreign relations.