Nicholas A. Phelps is Professor and Chair of Urban Planning and Associate Dean International in the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne.

Roger Keil is Distinguished Research Professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University, Toronto and Fellow of Canadian Institute for Advanced Research's (CIFAR) Humanity's Urban Future program.

Paul J. Maginn is Director of the Public Policy Institute and an Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Western Australia, Perth.