Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki (Finland). He specialises in intercultural communication education, the sociology of multiculturalism, and international mobilities in education, and has widely published in different languages on identity, interculturality and mobility/migration. Exploring the politics of interculturality within and beyond the 'canon' of intercultural communication education research has been one of his idées fixes in his works over the past 20 years.

Mei Yuan is Associate Professor at the School of Education, Minzu University of China. Yuan has led many research projects on Minzu and intercultural education and internationalisation, and has been recognised and awarded several times for her contributions to 'minority' education.

Sude is Professor at the School of Education, Minzu University of China and is considered one of the most influential scholars in the field of Chinese Minzu education. His research interests include multicultural education, diversity in teacher education, and intercultural competence in superdiverse institutions.