Pawel Swianiewicz is Professor and head of the Division for Social and Economic Research at the Institute of Spatial Management, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences.

Adam Gendzwill is Assistant Professor, Department of Local Development and Policy at the Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland.

Kurt Houlberg is Professor of Public Policy at Vive, the Danish Center for Social Science Research, Denmark.

Jan Erling Klausen is Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway.