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 Gdäsk. 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).

Andrew F. Cooper is University Research Chair, Department of Political Science, and Professor, Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo, Canada. From 2004 to 2010 he was Associate Director and Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). Holding a D.Phil. from Oxford University, he was a Fulbright Research Chair, Annenberg Center on Public Diplomacy, University of Southern California in 2009, the Léger Fellow, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada in 1993-1994, as well as Visiting Professor, International Relations and Governance Studies Department, Shiv Nadar University, India, in January-February 2O19. In 2019 he was the first recipient of the Distinguished Studies Award, Diplomatic Studies Section, International Studies Association.