Nancy Snow is Professor Emeritus of Communications, California State University, Fullerton, and Disney Chair in Global Media, Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University, Beijing (2020). Snow is Pax Mundi ("Distinguished") Professor of Public Diplomacy at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies and Adjunct Fellow in the Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies at Temple University Japan.

Nicholas J. Cull is Professor of Public Diplomacy in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the founding director of the Master of Public Diplomacy program at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. His research and teaching interests are interdisciplinary and focus on public diplomacy and-more broadly-the role of media, culture, and propaganda in international history. He is editor of the journal Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, president of the International Association for Media and History, and a member of the Public Diplomacy Council.