Dr. Alex Bollfrass is a Senior Editor at Binding Hook and a Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich. He was previously a fellow with the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center and a nuclear weapons policy researcher at the Arms Control Association and the Stimson Center.

Katerina Fytatzi is a Senior Editor at Binding Hook, a media-spinoff of ECCRI. Prior to joining Binding Hook, she worked at Oxford Analytica for over a decade, covering international issues, including cybersecurity, the geopolitics of cyber conflict, and disinformation. She managed Oxford Analytica’s Global Risk Monitor, which tracks the main global macroeconomic and geopolitical risks in the year ahead, and researched global security issues for a consultancy prior to that. She holds an M.A. in International Relations from King’s College London and a B.A. in International Relations from Boston University.

Taylor Grossman is an Editor with Binding Hook, an ECCRI organization. She is also a nonresident scholar with the Technology and International Affairs Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her other research interests include cyber norm development, ethics of war, and bureaucratic politics in national security decision making. She holds an MPhil in International Relations from the University of Oxford and a B.A. in Political Science from Stanford University.

Monica Kello is a Lecturer in War Studies (Cyber Security) at King’s College London and a non-resident fellow of The Hague Program on International Cyber Security at Leiden University. She is a founding trustee and board member of the European Cyber Conflict Research Initiative (ECCRI) and the initiator of The Hague Threat Intelligence Exchange (Hague TIX). Monica holds a PhD in Cyber Security from the University of Oxford.

James Shires is the Co-Director of the European Cyber Conflict Research Initiative (ECCRI), and Senior Research Fellow at Chatham House. He was previously an Assistant Professor in Cybersecurity Governance at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, University of Leiden. He is also a Fellow with The Hague Program on International Cyber Security. He has written widely on issues of cybersecurity and international politics, including cybersecurity expertise, digital authoritarianism, spyware regulation, and hack-and-leak operations. He is the author of The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East (Hurst/Oxford University Press 2021).

Max Smeets is the Co-Director of the European Cyber Conflict Research Initiative (ECCRI), and a Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich. He is the author of ‘No Shortcuts: Why States Struggle to Develop a Military Cyber-​Force’ (Oxford University Press & Hurst, 2022) and published widely on cyber statecraft, strategy and risk. Max was previously a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at Stanford University CISAC and a College Lecturer at Keble College, University of Oxford.