Katharina Bodirsky is a political and economic anthropologist who is currently teaching at the University of Konstanz. Among other research interests, she has turned in the past few years to studies of the commons and commoning as paths towards a post-capitalist future. She felt that research and education that exclusively engages with what goes wrong in our world today might end up demotivating us in our wish for transformation. This wish however does not preclude constructive criticism of attempts at transformation, and she engages with the potential of commoning in this spirit. Born and raised in a rural area in the South of Germany, Katharina lived in New York, Berlin, and Ankara before coming to Konstanz. Her perspective on the commons is informed by her experiences in these different places.

Jan Groos is a researcher, filmmaker and podcaster. He is a research associate in the DFG project 'The Governance of Algorithms' at the Department of Sociological Theory at Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel. As part of his podcast 'Future Histories', Jan explores the expansion of our idea of the future.

Jeff is a research associate with the Université Sorbonne Paris Nord. His academic research attempts to highlight the key macroeconomic obstacles to creating more harmonious human-nature relations and illuminate pathways forward. His work focuses primarily on how social power transforms environments in uneven ways across the globe, particularly at the expense of vulnerable and historically marginalized groups. He specializes in the role of monetary and financial institutions to both constrain and enable more sustainable outcomes. Jeff has worked as an economist for the World Bank and the Banque de France, where he conducted research to assess the macro-financial risks associated with intensifying environmental degradation and policies for the sustainability transition. Before this, he held teaching positions at Université Sorbonne Paris Nord (USPN) and Sciences Po. He holds a PhD in economics from USPN and a joint master's degree in international economics from both USPN and the Berlin School of Economics and Law.

Tim Christiaens is assistant professor of economic ethics at Tilburg University (Netherlands). His research focuses on the future of work with a particular interest in the impact of digital technologies on the labour process and opportunities for workplace democratisation. He has written a book on worker autonomy in the digital gig economy, called "Digital Working Lives" (2022), which discusses the pitfalls and opportunities for meaningful and autonomous work in the context of algorithmic management. Tim is also a research affiliate at the Platform Cooperativism Consortium of the New School for Social Research in New York, which investigates the opportunities for cooperatives to make use of platform technology.

Dr. Ana Carolina Cordilha is an Associate Professor at the University of Rennes 2 in France. She holds a Ph.D. from the University Sorbonne Paris Nord, where she studied contemporary transformations in public health systems driven by the expansion of global finance. Her research focuses on how monetary and fiscal policies are influenced by financial globalization, and the impact of these changes on the financing of social security policies. Her analysis has an international scope, combining French Regulation Theory and Dependency Theory to investigate these transformations across central and peripheral economies. Her teaching activities include courses in International Political Economy, Economic Development, and Quantitative Methods in Social Sciences.

Jörg Metelmann is an associate professor of Culture and Media Studies at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of St. Gallen (HSG). From 2009 to 2018 he served as program director of “Leadership Skills” in the Contextual Studies of the HSG, from 2015 to 2020 as academic director of the Coaching Program on Assessment Level, from 2023 on he’s co-directing the university’s public lectures program. Furthermore, he was program manager of the interdisciplinary Haniel Seminars (2009–2018) and the European Haniel Program on Entrepreneurship and the Humanities (EHP, since 2013), both in cooperation with the German Haniel Foundation. He has (co-)written and (co-)edited more than 20 books on various aspects of the cultural dynamics of modernity, with particular interest in narrativity, visuality, and identity. His recent research focuses on transformation processes both in Western societies in general, and management education in particular. One of the recent publications: Imagineering (co-edited with Harald Welzer), Fischer: Frankfurt 2020.

Elena Hofferberth is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Lausanne. Her research focuses on the macro-financial and political economy conditions for a post-growth economy. She holds a PhD in economic from the University of Leeds. Elena is part of the international Post-Growth Economics Network, the Lausanne Ecological Economics Lab and the Scientific Research group on Sustainable Money. She is keen to develop and discuss new economic approaches within and outside of academia.

Yanira Wolf is a staff member at the trade union ver.di, Germany’s second-largest union with 1.9 million members, mainly in service jobs, including nurses, postal workers, teachers, and bus drivers. She understands trade union practice as part of social movements, but sees large gaps in culture and methods between union groups and activists. Therefore it's her goal to bring groups together to help them see their stated goals and build lasting coalitions, learning from each other and experimenting with methods and actions.

Thomas Telios is a social and political philosopher. He has studied Law, Music Performance (Piano and Chamber Music), Political Theory and Philosophy at the National University of Athens, the Anton-Rubinstein Akademie, Düsseldorf and the Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main. Since February 2016 he works as a Lecturer for Philosophy at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS) at the University of St. Gallen. His research agenda revolves around the concepts of collectivity, collective agency, collective forms of struggle (e.g., solidarity) and collective forms of imagining the future (e.g., utopia). To do so, he combines insights from social and political philosophy, political economy, political theory, queer theory, and intersectionality. He is currently working on the book-project "Common Sense: A Declaration of Dependence" where he recalibrates the concept of common sense as a robust political concept that can facilitate a radical redemocratization of democracy and can act as bulwark against the predominant atomistic and neo-liberal understandings of democracy. Forthcoming publications: “On Koinotopia: Reconstructing Utopia at the Era of Neo-Liberalism, Political Ecology, and Intersectionality.” (Montpellier: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2024); “Overdetermined Solidarity: Solidarity as Form of Agency, Set of Practices, and Normative Principle.” (Genealogy & Critique, vol. 9, no. 1 (2024)).