Andrew F. Cooper is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo and an Associate Senior Fellow at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research. He teaches in the areas of the Theory and Practice of Diplomacy, National Perspectives on Global Governance, International Political Economy, and Comparative and Canadian Foreign Policy. Holding a Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil) from Oxford University, he has been a Visiting Professor at Harvard University, The Australian National University, and Stellenbosch University in South Africa. He was Canada-US Fulbright Research Chair at the University of Southern California in 2009, Fulbright Scholar in the Western Hemisphere Program at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC in 2000 and the Leger Fellow, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 1993-1994.

Marek Rewizorski is a political scientist and lawyer, Professor at the Institute of Political Science, and Head of the Department of Global and Regional Studies at the University of Gdansk. Principal investigator in research grants SONATA (2011-2014) and OPUS (2017-2020) awarded by the National Science Centre in Poland, member of EISA and ISA, expert of the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) and National Centre of Science (NCN), visiting researcher at the European University Institute in Florence (June 2018).