Richard A. Matthew is Associate Professor of International and Environmental Politics in the Schools of Social Ecology and Social Science at the University of California, Irvine.

Jon Barnett is Reader and Australian Research Council Fellow in the Department of Resource Management and Geography at the University of Melbourne.

Bryan McDonald is Assistant Director of the Center for Unconventional Security at the University of California, Irvine.

Karen L. O'Brien is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo.