Mark van Vugt is Professor of Evolutionary Psychology, Work and Organizational Psychology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands and a Research Associate at the  Department of Politics and International relations, University of Oxford. He studies and teaches about political, group and organizational behaviour from an evolutionary psychology perspective. His main research themes include leadership, hierarchy, altruism, cooperation, and intergroup relations.

Manolis Pratsinakis is the Onassis Foundation Research Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. He is also Deputy Project Manager of the SEESOX Diaspora project and a research affiliate of the Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS) at the University of  Oxford. Manolis Pratsinakis was previously a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at the University of Macedonia (2015-2017), a visiting fellow at the University of Sussex (2016) and a lecturer at the University of Amsterdam (2013-2015).

Alexander Kuo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations and tutorial fellow in politics at Christ Church, at the University of Oxford.

His research interests are in comparative and international political economy, labour and business history, and political behaviour. He received his PhD in political science from Stanford University.