Antoine de Bengy Puyvallée is a PhD fellow in international relations at the University of Oslo’s Centre for Development and the Environment. His research focuses on the politics of global health and, more specifically, the politics and global governance of epidemic preparedness and response. He has a particular interest in Norway’s global health and foreign policy, including the country’s focus on global public–private cooperation mechanisms, civil society’s participation in global governance, and the paradoxes emerging from its (often) moral approach to world affairs.

Kristian Bjørkdahl is a postdoctoral fellow, researcher, and head of teaching at the University of Oslo’s Centre for Development and the Environment. He holds a PhD in rhetoric on Richard Rorty’s notion of solidarity, and is currently working on a project about the rhetorical uses of Nordic colonial innocence. He also does research on science communication, pandemic communication, rhetorical history and theory, besides working as a critic and essayist. He was previously the manager of a small publishing company, and is now one of two editors of the Norwegian-language rhetoric magazine, Kairos. He has also edited several books, including Pandemics, Publics, and Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, with Benedicte Carlsen), Rapporten (Pax, 2018), and Rhetorical Animals (Lexington, 2018, with Alex C. Parrish).

Christopher S. Browning is a reader of politics and international studies at the University of Warwick. He has previously held positions at several British as well as Nordic research institutions, and is presently a visiting professor at the University of Oslo, as part of a project on Nordic Branding. He holds a PhD from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and his published work includes: Vicarious Identity in International Relations (Oxford University Press, 2021, with Pertti Joenniemi and Brent J. Steele), International Security: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2013); The Struggle for the West: A Divided and Contested Legacy (Routledge, 2010, eds. with Marko Lehti); Constructivism, Narrative and Foreign Policy Analysis: A Case Study of Finland (Peter Lang, 2008); and Remaking Europe in the Margins: Northern Europe after the Enlargements (ed.) (Ashgate, 2005).

Wayne Stephen Coetzee is a senior lecturer in political science at University West, Sweden, and a visiting lecturer at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. His research focuses predominantly on the political economy of conventional arms trade, the interrelation between ideals and interests in foreign policy behaviour, and Nordic development studies. He obtained his PhD in Peace and Development Research from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Lars Engberg-Pedersen is head of unit and senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies. His research concentrates on international norms, primarily related to gender equality, and how they influence change at national and local levels, as well as on Danish and international development cooperation, its administration, and its changing nature. Presently, he is working on how international norms on the elimination of violence against women have changed in the last 30 years, the reasons for these changes, and what this means for the norm concept. Moreover, he examines whether global performance indicators and country rankings influence national policies and practices. He is the author of Endangering Development: Politics, Projects, and Environment in Burkina Faso (Praeger, 2003), and co-editor of Rethinking Gender Equality in Global Governance: The Delusion of Norm Diffusion (Springer, 2019, with Adam Moe Fejerskov and Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde).

Adam Moe Fejerskov is senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies. His research focuses on global issues of development, poverty, and inequalities. He studies the role of politics, technology, and science in international and local dynamics in the context of the Global South. His latest books are The Gates Foundation’s Rise to Power (2018) and Rethinking Gender Equality in Global Governance: The Delusion of Norm Diffusion (Springer, 2019, with Lars Engberg-Pedersen and Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde).

Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen is a professor with special responsibilities in migration and refugee law at the University of Copenhagen and honorary professor at Aarhus University. He received his PhD (in law) from Aarhus University, MSc (in refugee studies) from the University of Oxford, and MA (in political science) from the University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on international refugee law, human rights, and the relationship between international law and politics. He is the author or editor of nine books, including Access to Asylum (Cambridge University Press, 2011), which received the 2013 KG Idman Award, and Hvordan løser vi flygtningekrisen? (Information, 2016), which won the Danish Publicist Association Peace Award. Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen is a regular commentator on asylum and immigration matters in Nordic and international media. He has consulted for a number of international organizations, governments, and NGOs, and previously served as a member of the Danish Refugee Appeals Board.

Carl Marklund is a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History at Södertörn University. His research examines social planning, geopolitics, and images of Sweden, e.g. in the Global South. He is particularly interested in the impact of scientific knowledge production for the development of various policy fields, and has published research on the global image of the Nordic welfare states, Baltic-Nordic regionalism, and the recent return of geopolitics in the Baltic Sea Region. He holds an MA in international relations from London School of Economics (2002), and a PhD in history from European University Institute (2008). In his doctoral thesis he studied the concept of social engineering in Sweden and the USA during the interwar era. He has been a visiting fellow at New York University, Columbia University, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and Stockholm University. He is the editor and co-editor of several volumes, including All Well in the Welfare State? (NordWel, 2013), The Paradox of Openness (Brill, 2014, with Norbert Götz), and Baltic-Nordic Regionalism (University of Tartu Press, 2015, with Mart Kuldkepp).

Desmond McNeill, political economist, is former Director of the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM) at the University of Oslo, Norway. He has 50 years of experience in development, mainly from Africa and Asia. His books include: The Contradictions of Foreign Aid (1981, reissued Routledge, 2020), Development Issues in Global Governance: Market Multilateralism and Public–Private Partnerships (Routledge, 2009, with Benedicte Bull); Global Poverty, Ethics and Human Rights: The Role of Multilateral Organisations (Routledge, 2012, with Asunción St. Clair), and Protecting the World’s Children: Immunisation Policies and Practices (Oxford University Press, 2013, eds. with Sidsel Roalkvam and Stuart Blume). He was a member of the Lancet-University of Oslo Commission on Global Governance for Health and is a member of IPES-Food (The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems).

Ada Nissen is a Norwegian historian with expertise in diplomatic history and Nordic foreign policy. She holds a PhD from the University of Oslo and completed her PhD dissertation on Norway’s role in international mediation. She has published articles and book chapters on mediation in Sri Lanka, Colombia, Guatemala, and the Middle East. She is currently part of a team researching and writing the history of the Norwegian state’s national oil company, Equinor (previously Statoil). She focuses on the history of Equinor’s corporate social responsibility, with an emphasis on human rights issues and climate change challenges.

Simon Reid-Henry is a professor in geography at Queen Mary University of London and director of the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences. He has published numerous books and articles on the political and intellectual history of development and global health, including The Cuban Cure: Reason and Resistance in Global Science (University of Chicago Press, 2010) and Empire of Democracy: The Remaking of the West since the Cold War, 1971–2017 (Simon & Schuster, 2019). His work has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, the Smuts Memorial Fund, the Norwegian Research Council, the Yale MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, and the Leverhulme Trust.

Johan Karlsson Schaffer is an associate professor at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg. His main research interests are international and political theory, especially democracy and human rights, and the politics of courts and human rights in the Nordic region. His publications include articles in Review of International Studies, Political Studies, International Theory, Human Rights Review and Social Epistemology, as well as the edited volumes The Legitimacy of International Human Rights Regimes (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and Moral and Political Conceptions of Human Rights(Cambridge University Press, 2017).