Benjamin Neimark and Kate Mackintosh

Reader at the School of Business and Management, and a former Fellow at the Institute of Social Science and Humanities (IHSS) at Queen Mary University of London. Benjamin is a human geographer and political ecologist whose current research looks at the US military as a global climate actor and, more broadly, the environment footprints of the world’s militaries. He leads a new UKRI grant on military critical mineral supply chains and decarbonisation - which uses a geopolitical ecology lens to examine the critical geopolitical and political economy of large institutions, such as militaries, and their role in multi-scalar environment and climate breakdown: Critically Green: https://www.criticallygreen.org/ Kate Mackintosh is the Executive Director of UCLA Law's The Promise Institute for Human Rights - Europe, based in The Netherlands. She served as the inaugural Executive Director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights in LA from August 2018 to July 2023. Mackintosh has worked in the fields of human rights, international criminal justice, and the protection of civilians for three decades. She was involved in the development of international criminal law in its fledgling years and contributed to defining many elements of this new area of law, such as the elements of rape as an international crime, the definition of protected persons, and the scope of complicity for international crimes.