Olivier De Schutter is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. Previously, he has been the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, and a member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. He is the co-author of The Escape from Poverty, Social Innovation in the Service of Ecological and Social Transformation: The Rise of the Enabling State.

Kate Raworth is the author of the best-selling book Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist. She is Senior Associate at Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute and co-founder of Doughnut Economics Action Lab.