Cliff Hague is professor emeritus at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland. He works as a freelance consultant and researcher. He is well known as a former president and current secretary general of the Commonwealth Association of Planners and he is representing UK within the ESPON. 

Michael Fuller-Gee is a town planner and landscape architect. He has also been associate professor at Norwegian University of Life Science, visiting professor at University of Cape Town. He has also been member of juries for architectural competition.

Michele Zini works in ZPZ Partners which deals with architecture, interior design and research. The main projects, in Italy and abroad (Tokyo, Moscow, Seoul, Shanghai), range from architecture (schools, hospitals, shops, supermarkets, homes), to interior design, furniture systems, corporate image (Gruppo Atlas-Concorde, Motorola, Unilever_Algida, Vodafone), vision design, displays and layouts.

Knut Vareide is a social economist and senior research fellow at the Telemark Research Institute in Bø, Norway. He has been working with regional development projects and regional attractivity research.  83 Norwegian regions and all municipalities are benchmarked in the annual report which is elaborated for NHO.

Andrew Copus is a senior research fellow at the UHI Millennium Institute (Inverness, Scotland) and Nordregio in Stockholm. He is coordinator of the ESPON 2013 project EDORA (European Development Opportunities for Rural Areas). His current research interests lie in Territorial Rural Development, European Rural Development and Cohesion policy, rural business networks and globalisation, rural indicators and regional typologies.