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Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco is a Cultural Anthropologist with food and economic anthropology expertise. Serving as an assistant professor at the University of Gastronomic Sciences and a fellow at Durham University's Department of Anthropology, he also coordinates professional networks related to economic and food anthropology for the European Association of Social Anthropology. Since 2019 he has chaired the Ethics Committee of the University of Gastronomic Sciences. In the same institution, he coordinates the undergraduate program in Gastronomic Sciences and Cultures. His research primarily explores local development and the role of food and gastronomy's impact on economic and socio-economic progress. His notable publications include "Food Festivals and Local Development in Italy" (2020, Palgrave) and "Il Cibo del Futuro" (2021, Carocci).

Kathleen Openshaw is a lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at Western Sydney University, where she teaches ethics. Kathleen’s research interests are local migrant lived religious expressions and material religion. Kathleen is a member of the research team for an Australian Research Council Discovery Project, “The African Diaspora and Christianity in Australia”. She is co-editor (with Rocha and Hutchinson) of Australian Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements: Arguments from the Margins (2020). Kathleen is currently working on her forthcoming ethnography of the Brazilian megachurch, The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) in Australia, to be published with Rutgers University Press.

Rachel Spronk is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. Her various research projects evidence a concern with the historical trajectories that have shaped the present, the production of knowledge about gender and sexuality and, ultimately, how the lived experiences of people inform our theoretical models. Overall, she investigates the interface between sexuality and the middle classes in Ghana and Kenya, examining problematic assumptions behind both terms. Since 2014 she has been a member of the Ethics Advisory Board of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), at the University of Amsterdam.

David Mills is an Associate Professor in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford and also Director of an ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) doctoral training partnership between Oxford, Open University and Brunel. His PhD in Anthropology at SOAS drew on fieldwork at both Makerere and a rural Ugandan secondary school, and sparked his ethnographic curiosity about the anthropology of education and the education of anthropologists. He is currently developing a new research project on the politics of doctoral education in Africa.

Matan Kaminer is an anthropologist and a Lecturer at the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University London. His background is in cultural anthropology, political economy, and political ecology. He holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Michigan and an MA in Sociology and Anthropology from Tel Aviv University.
A long-time activist, he has participated in movements against militarism and occupation, in solidarity with migrant workers, and for the democratisation of academic life. His research on agricultural labour migration from South and Southeast Asia to the Middle East encompasses geo-political and geo-economic processes from the perspective of the most marginalised. His research foci include the political ecology of desert agriculture, the racialisation of agrarian labour, and labour migration in the Indian Ocean world.
His most recent interests span the history of proletarianisation in Palestine/Israel and elsewhere and the synergy between exploitation and elimination of the indigenous in colonial contexts. His book, Capitalist Colonial: Thai Migrant Workers in Israeli Agriculture, was recently published by Stanford University Press.