Throstur Olaf Sigurjonsson is a Professor at the University of Iceland, as well as a member of faculty at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. His areas of research are corporate governance, business ethics, policymaking, and policy implementation.  

José M. Ruano is a Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Spain. His main research fields are public policy analysis, local governance, comparative public administration and reform of the State.  

Alina Georgiana Profiroiu is a Professor at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania, Department of Administration and Public Management. Her research is on local public administration, civil service and public administration reform, institutional and regional resilience and governance.  

Saule Maciukaite-Zviniene is Professor of Innovation and Knowledge Transfer at Vilnius University Business School, Lithuania, and Head of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Development. She is the Chair of the National Council of Education and co-chair of the CERN-Lithuania Committee.  

Kosjenka DumanÄiÄ is an Associate Professor at Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. Her research interests are company and commercial law, European law and corporate governance.