Dr Luc Ampleman is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Management of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. He is a former governmental advisor for the Ministry of Transport of Québec and a transport planner in Canada's northernmost region of the Province of Québec. His research interests cover local geopolitics, sustainable mobility in remote areas and transport diplomacy. He is the author of Transport Diplomacy: Planning Narratives and Mobility Cooperation published by Routledge.

Prof. Dr. Ir. Walter Timo de Vries has been Chair of Land Management at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) since 2015. His current research interests at TUM include smart and responsible land management, urban and rural development and land consolidation. Recent publications include the CRC/Taylor and Francis books Geospatial Science for Smart Land Management: An Asian Context, Sustainable and Smart Spatial Planning in Africa, Responsible and Smart Land Management Interventions: An African Context and Advances in Responsible Land Administration.