Email: blcarter3@gmail.com

Dr Brett Carter is an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California and a Hoover Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University and has previously held fellowships at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies and Stanford’s Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. His first book, Propaganda in Autocracies, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. He has written widely about politics in the Republic of Congo, including the Congo chapter for the Africa Yearbook, published each year by Brill. His second book project, Dictatorship in Divided Societies, focuses on politics in Congo since President Denis Sassou Nguesso reclaimed power in 1997.

Email: jrich@maryu.marywood.edu

Since 2010, Dr. Jeremy Rich has been conducting research on Congolese politics and history and published one book on the subject, Protestant Missionaries and Humanitarianism in the DRC. He also conducted research there for 6 weeks in summer 2023. He regularly follow politics there and have some familiarity with Lingala and Kikongo as well as being fluent in French. The bulk of his 60 or so letters of support in asylum cases with Amnesty International and independently were for asylees from the DR Congo. He have a very good understanding of both the conflicts in eastern Congo and the policies of the current Tshisekedi government on human rights issues. He have a very extensive network of contacts in DRC and in the diaspora to turn to as well. 

Email: A.S.Barnett@lse.ac.uk

Dr Barnett is Professorial Research Fellow in LSE Health and Social Care in the Department of Social Policy and holds an honorary Chair at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is an interdisciplinary social scientist with a background in economics, philosophy, social anthropology, sociology and political science. He is able to advise on ethnicity in the Republic of Congo. He can particularly be referred to when determining whether a Congolese is MuNyamulenge. He is also willing to discuss claims made based on the adequacy of HIV/AIDS treatment in the Republic of Congo.