Usman W. Chohan, PhD, is an international economist and academic who serves as Advisor on Economic Affairs and National Development at the Centre for Aerospace & Security Studies (CASS), one of Pakistan's premier research-based think tanks, where he was a founding director.

Sven Van Kerckhoven, PhD, is Associate Professor of Political Economics at the Brussels School of Governance (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), where he also serves as Vice-Dean for Education. He also is a professorial fellow at the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies.