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Jack FitzGerald is based in London, UK.

Stuart Loh is currently studying at Stanford Law School. He has previously worked as a technology and finance lawyer in Australia and has also spent some time working in the IT industry in technical roles. He has maintained one of the net’s oldest continuously-running blogs, the award-winning Hear Ye!, since 1998 when blogging was still a fringe movement derided by mainstream media. Stuart is based in Stanford, California.

Stephen Phillips is based in Canberra, Australia.

Kevin Yeoh is an Asian equities analyst and makes regular trips to Asia. He previously worked for an investment bank in credit and country risk and engaged in the much maligned dark arts of securitisation.  Kevin has lived and studied in China and has a strong interest in foreign affairs. He was a delegate to the “Australia’s Future in the World” stream at the 2020 Summit and has been published in The Age, The Ethnic Communities Council and business journals on topics including Australia’s engagement with Asia, migrant participation in the democratic process and Chinese business. He goes feral when placed in the vicinity of hors d’oeuvres. Kevin is based in Sydney, Australia.

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