Estela Schindel is a research and adjunct professor at the Institute for European Studies at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), where she also acts as academic coordinator. She studied Communication Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires, where she worked as a professor in Computer Science and Society and Current Principals of Contemporary Thinking. She received her PhD in Sociology at the University of Berlin (Freie Universität Berlin) and completed her habilitation thesis in Sociology at the European University Viadrina.

María Grace Salamanca González has a PhD in Philosophy, mention in ethics, politics and law in the framework of a co-direction between the University of Lyon (France) and the Research Program Social Actors of the Medicinal Flora in Mexico (INAH). She is specialist in Epistemologies of the South.

Juan Pablo Jiménez is a lecturer of Public Finance at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is also a researcher at the Center for Economic Research (CINVE) in Uruguay and the Vice President of the Ibero-American Association for Local Financing (AIFIL). Dr. Jiménez was the office director of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Uruguay and the coordinator of the Fiscal Area of the Economic Development Division of ECLAC in Santiago, Chile.