Christopher Achen is Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences, and Professor of Politics, in the Department of Politics at Princeton University.

Andrew Bennett is Professor of International Relations in the Department of Government in the College and the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

Melani Cammett is Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs in the Department of Government and chair of the Harvard Academy of International and Area Studies at Harvard University.

Nancy Cartwright is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at San Diego and the University of Durham.

Sarah Glavey is Research Manager at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

Maria Gonzalez de Asis is Practice Manager for the Social Development Global Practice in the Latin America and Caribbean region of the World Bank.

Oliver Haas is Senior Partner, Kessel & Kessel Consultants, Germany; he was formerly the Head of the Global Division on “Health, Education, Social Inclusion” in Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).

Margaret Levi  is the Sara Miller McCune Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University, Professor of Political Science at Stanford, and Jere L. Bacharach Professor Emerita of International Studies in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington.

Andrew Moravcsik is Professor of Politics and Director of the European Union Program at Princeton University.

Daniel Ortega Nieto is Senior Public Sector Specialist in the Governance Global Practice at the World Bank.

Tommaso Pavone is Assistant Professor of Law and Politics in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona.

Claudio Santibanez is Senior Advisor, Public Sector Partnerships, at UNICEF, based in New York.

Barry R. Weingast is the Ward C. Krebs Family Professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.

Jennifer Widner is Professor of Politics and International Affairs in the Department of Politics at Princeton University, and Director of Innovations for Successful Societies, a Woodrow Wilson School research program on improving government performance.

Michael Woolcock is Lead Social Scientist in the Development Research Group at the World Bank. For many years he has also taught part-time at Harvard Kennedy School.