D'Maris Coffman is Professor of Economics and Finance and the Head of Department and Director of the Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management at University College London. 

Harold James, the Claude and Lore Kelly Professor in European Studies at Princeton University, is Professor of History and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School and Director of the Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society. 

Nicholas Di Liberto is president of the Southeast World History Association and associate editor of the World History Bulletin. He works now as a freelance editor.