Bård Kleppe works as a Research Professor at the Telemark Research Institute. He has conducted several research projects on cultural policy, artists' working conditions and the creative sector.

Jaka Primorac works as a Scientific Advisor at the Institute for Development and International Relations (IRMO), Zagreb, with research interests in the field of cultural and creative industries, cultural labour, cultural policy and digital culture.

Miikka Pyykkönen is Professor of Cultural Policy in the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä. He specialises in cultural policy, creative economy and ethnopolitics, but his research interests also cover entrepreneurship, cultural participation of youth, government and governance, and social theory.

David Wright is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies at the University of Warwick, where he teaches and researches cultural policy and cultural work.