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Dr Rohan Mukherjee is Executive Director of the commission. His research focuses on rising powers and how they navigate the power and status hierarchies of international order. His book, Ascending Order: Rising Powers and the Politics of Status in International Institutions was published in the Cambridge Studies in International Relations series with Cambridge University Press in autumn 2022. It shows that whether rising powers cooperate with, challenge, or try to reform an international order depends on the extent to which its core institutions facilitate symbolic equality with the great-power club. His regional focus is on the Asia-Pacific, particularly how major powers such as India, China, the United States, and Japan, and smaller states in South and Southeast Asia, manage the regional effects of global transitions.

Stephen Paduano is Research Director of the commissions. He is a PhD candidate at the London School of Economics. He studies Chinese investment and development policy in sub-Saharan Africa. His research is at the intersection of macroeconomics, development, and international political economy. Stephen’s PhD is funded by the Michael Leifer Scholarship, and his fieldwork is supported by the Sir Patrick Gillam Scholarship Fund. He has taught “China & The Global South” and “International Political Economy” at the London School of Economics, and he teaches “Critical Theories of International Relations” and “Global Development” at Sciences Po (Paris).