Luca Mora is Professor of Urban Innovation at The Business School of Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland, UK, and at the Academy of Architecture and Urban Studies of Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), Estonia.

Mark Deakin is Professor of Built Environment at the School of Engineering and the Built Environment of Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland, UK.

Xiaoling Zhang is Professor in the Department of Public Policy of City University of Hong Kong, China.

Michael Batty is Bartlett Professor of Planning at University College London, where he chairs the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).

Martin de Jong is Professor at Erasmus School of Law and Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

Paolo Santi is Principal Research Scientist at Senseable City Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, and Research Director of the Institute of Informatics and Telematics, National Research Council, Pisa, Italy.

Francesco Paolo Appio is Associate Professor of Innovation at SKEMA Business School, France.