Jonathan D. Jansen is a Distinguished Professor of Education at Stellenbosch University and President of the Academy of Science of South Africa. He is a curriculum theorist, and his research is concerned with the politics of knowledge. His most recent and co-authored book is The Decolonization of Knowledge (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and he holds a MSc from Cornell and a PhD from Stanford University.

Jess Auerbach is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Cape Town and a Fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study. Jess is an anthropologist of knowledge systems, and her work spans the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean. She has written two recent books, one on the emerging Angolan Middle Class and one on everyday kindness during the South African Covid-19 pandemic. She holds an MSc from Oxford and a PhD from Stanford University and is a P-rated Scholar with the National Research Foundation.