Eduardo Grin is an associate professor at Fundação Getulio Vargas/Brazil, professor at the University del Valle (Colombia), and the National School of Public Administration (Brazil).

Johanna Schnabel is a Lecturer and Researcher at the Chair of German Politics, Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin.

Mario Kölling is a professor at the Department of Political Science, Spanish National Distance Education University (UNED) in Madrid and senior researcher at the Fundación Manuel Giménez Abad in Zaragoza.

Joel Mendoza Ruiz is a full-time research professor, level "D," at the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico, currently affiliated with the Cuautitlán Izcalli Professional Academic Unit.