James R. Martel is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at San Francisco State University, USA.

Bäak Ertür is Reader in Research Architecture at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

Naveed Mansoori is an Associate Research Scholar at the Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies, Princeton University, USA.

Connal Parsley is Reader in Law at the University of Kent, UK, and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow.