Pamela Chasek is professor of Political Science and chair of the Political Science Department at Manhattan College, United States.

Debapriya Bhattacharya is a distinguished fellow at the Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, and chair of Southern Voice, an open platform for think tanks and researchers from Global South countries.

Steven Bernstein is distinguished professor of Global Environmental and Sustainability Governance in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, Canada, and co-director of the Environmental Governance Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Marianne Beisheim is a senior researcher in the research division Global Issues at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Germany.