Scott J. Shackelford serves on the faculty of Indiana University where he is Cybersecurity Program Chair along with being Executive Director of the Ostrom Workshop. He is also an affiliated scholar at both the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Stanford Center for Internet and Society, as well as senior fellow at the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research. His previous books include The Internet of Things: What Everyone Needs to Know (2020), Governing New Frontiers in the Information Age: Toward Cyber Peace (2020), and Managing Cyber Attacks in International Law, Business, and Relations: In Search of Cyber Peace (2014).

Jessica Steinberg is Director of the Program on Environment and Natural Resource Governance at the Ostrom Workshop, Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of International Studies at the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University, and adjunct professor of political science. Her research focuses on the political economy of development, local politics of natural resource extraction, information politics, and violent conflict. Her first book, Mines, Communities, and States: The Local Politics of Natural Resource Extraction in Africa (2019), was awarded the 2020 Sprout Award for the best book in environmental politics by the International Studies Association.

Michael Mattioli is a former Sun Microsystems microchip designer turned award-winning professor of law at the Maurer School of Law, Indiana University. Mattioli's scholarship on law and technology has been published in leading law reviews. He is also the co-editor of Big Data Is Not a Monolith (2016).