Efe Can Gürcan is Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, as well as Research Associate at the University of Manitoba's Geopolitical Economy Research Group and Associate Professor at Istinye University. He is author of Imperialism after the Neoliberal Turn and Multipolarization, South-South Cooperation and the Rise of Post-Hegemonic Governance. His latest co-authored book is Collective Empowerment in Latin America: Indigenous Peasant Movements and Political Transformation.

Can Donduran is Assistant Professor of International Relations, the Vice Director of the Institute of Graduate Education, and the Director of the Center for Belt and Road Studies at Istinye University, Turkey.