Christoph Ribbat is Professor of American Studies at the University of Paderborn, Germany.
Blake Stimson is Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois, a specialist in post-war and contemporary art history and author of The Pivot of the World: Photography and Its Nation (2006).
Paul U. Unschuld is Professor and Director of the Horst-Goertz Institute for the Theory, History and Ethics of Chinese Life Sciences at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the author of What is Medicine? Western and Eastern Approaches to Healing (2009).
John Rennie Short is Emeritus Professor at the School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. His many books include The Urban Now: Living in an Age of Urban Globalism (2023).
Salomon Kroonenberg is Emeritus Professor of Geology at the University of Delft. He is the author of The Human Scale, which was awarded the Eureka Prize in 2007 for best non-specialist scientific literature.
Marc Millon is a food, wine and travel writer. His previous books include The Wine and Food of Europe (1982), Wine Roads of France (1989), Wine Roads of Italy (1991) and Wine Roads of Spain (1993). He lives in Devon.
Anne Massey is Professor of Design History at Kingston University, London, and author of Interior Design of the 20th Century (2001) and Designing Liners: Interior Design Afloat (2006).
Kathryn Weir is Head of International Art and the Australian Cinémathèque at the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.
Ted Gott is Senior Curator of International Art at the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia. He is the author of the groundbreaking study The Enchanted Stone: The Graphic Worlds of Odilon Redon (1990).
Nicolaas Mink is Urban Sustainable Foods Fellow at Butler University, Indianapolis.