Alf Gunvald Nilsen is director of the Centre for Asian Studies in Africa and a professor of sociology at the University of Pretoria.

Karl von Holdt is a professor and research associate at the Society, Work and Politics Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Ching Kwan Lee is professor of sociology at the University of California Los Angeles and an Extraordinary Professor at the Centre for Asian Studies in Africa at the University of Pretoria.

Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos is professor of Latin American Studies at the Federal University and Prolam-USP in São Paulo.

Ruy Braga is associate professor of sociology at the Univeristy of Sao Paulo.