JASON MIKLIAN is a Research Professor at the University of Oslo (Norway). Miklian has published several award-winning books, academic articles and policy works on issues of conflict, business, and crisis, based on extensive fieldwork in South Asia, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa. He serves on the United Nations Expert Panel on Business and Human Rights and is an expert resource for government knowledge banks in the US, UK, EU and Norway. Miklian has also written for or been cited in an expert capacity by the New York Times, BBC, The Economist, Washington Post, and Foreign Policy, and is a 2-time nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize.