Craig Benjaminis a Professor of History at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, USA, where he researches and teaches big history and ancient Eurasian history. Recent books includeBig History: Between Nothing and Everything(co-authored with David Christian and Cynthia Stokes Brown, 2014); andEmpires of Ancient Eurasia. The First Silk Roads Era 100 BCE - 250 CE(2018).

Esther Quaedackers is a Lecturer in Big History at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where she has been developing, coordinating, and teaching big history courses for over a decade. She is the inventor of the 'little big history' approach, which is a research and teaching method in which small subjects are connected to aspects of big history in order to generate creative new ideas about how these subjects came to be the way they are.

David Baker is Lecturer of Big History at Macquarie University, Australia, and is the first scholar worldwide to achieve a PhD in that field. He is co-designer ofBig History School(three K-12 curricula),Big History: Connecting Knowledgeon Coursera, and contributor to theBig History Project. He was scriptwriter for two seasons ofCrash Course: Big Historywith over 12 million views on Youtube. He has produced numerous research articles, chapters, and edited volumes, including works in theJournal of World HistoryandProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.