Rosana Pinheiro-Machado is an anthropologist and a Professor in the School of Geography at University College Dublin, Ireland. She is the Principal Investigator of the project Flexible Work, Rigid Politics In Brazil, India, and the Philippines, funded by the European Research Council (ERC), Consolidator Grant.

Tatiana Vargas-Maia is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil.