Colin Crouch is an external scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies at Cologne and professor emeritus of the University of Warwick. He previously taught at the London School of Economics and Political Science, the University of Oxford (Fellow of Trinity College), and the European University Institute, Florence. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and of the Academy of Social Sciences, and a member of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino. His most recent books include The Globalization Backlash (2019), Will the Gig Economy Prevail? (2019), Manifesto for Social Europe (2020), Post-Democracy after the Crises (2020), and Rethinking Political Identity: Citizens and Parties in Europe (2025).

Katherine Gibson is Professor emerita of the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University, Australia, and Co-Director of the Community Economies Institute, an international Non-University Education and Research Organization (NUERO). She is a feminist economic geographer with an international reputation for innovative research on economic transformation and over 30 years’ experience of working with communities to build resilient economies. With the late Professor Julie Graham, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and as the joint author J.K. Gibson-Graham, she initiated the Diverse Economies Research Program and founded the Community Economies Collective.