Robert Falkner is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He holds Masters-level degrees in politics and economics from Munich University and a DPhil in international relations from Oxford University. He has published widely on global environmental politics and risk regulation, including Business Power and Conflict in International Environmental Politics (2008). In 2008–09, he coordinated a transatlantic research team that investigated emerging nanotechnology regulation in Europe and the US, which led to the publication of the Chatham House report Securing the Promise of Nanotechnologies: Towards Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation (2009).

Nico Jaspers is a post-doctoral researcher at the Free University of Berlin. He studied economics at Columbia University, New York, international political economy at Sciences Po, Paris (Institut d'Etudes Politiques) and received a doctorate in international relations from the London School of Economics in 2011. He has published widely on nanotechnology policy and in 2009 coauthored an EU commissioned report on transatlantic cooperation in nanotechnology regulation.