Heather Skipworth is Professor of Supply Chain Management and Strategy at Cranfield School of Management, The Cranfield Centre for Logistics, Procurement and Supply Chain Management.

Remko van Hoek is a Professor of Supply Chain Management at the University of Arkansas, Sam M. Walton College of Business.

James Aitken is an Emeritus Professor and Director of the Centre for Business Analytics in Practice at the University of Surrey.

Alan Harrison was Professor of Operations and Logistics at Cranfield School of Management, and Director of Research at The Cranfield Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management.