Pritam Singh is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Oxford Brookes Business School, UK. Professor Singh is on the editorial board of several leading journals in South Asian/Punjab studies and eco-socialist studies. He has held visiting positions at the University of Oxford, UK; the University of Uberlandia, Brazil; Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia; and Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. In 2015, the World Association of Political Economy honoured him with the Distinguished Achievement Award in Political Economy, and in 2021, the University of California (Riverside) honoured him with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his distinguished contribution to Sikh and Punjab studies.

Meena Dhanda is Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Politics at the University of Wolverhampton, UK, and is also Visiting Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. Her transdisciplinary research lies at the intersections of caste, class, gender and race.