Laura Junka-Aikio is a Finnish scholar who currently works as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellow and as project leader for the Norwegian Research Council funded research project New Sámi Renaissance: Nordic Colonialism, Social Change and Indigenous Cultural Policy at the Arctic University Museum of Norway, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway. Her research is currently concerned with the relationships between politics of knowledge, identity, contemporary colonialism and social change.

Jukka Nyyssönen Dr.art., project leader of Societal Dimensions of Sámi Research, worked during most of the project at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway in The Arctic University Museum of Norway. He currently works as a senior researcher in the High North department of the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU). Nyyssönen has published widely on Sami history, e.g. in the fields of environmental history, educational history and history of science.

Veli-Pekka Lehtola is is a (North) Sámi from the Aanaar or Inari in Northern Finland and a professor of Sámi culture in the Giellagas Institute for Sámi Studies at the University of Oulu, Finland. Lehtola specializes in the history of the Sámi and Lapland, in Sámi representations as well as in modern Sámi art.