Lawrence Susskind is Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is visiting professor at Harvard Law School and vice-chair for instruction at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. He is also the founder of the Consensus Building Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

William Moomaw is professor of international environmental policy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University where he directs the International Environmental and Resource Program. He is also director of the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts.

Kevin Gallagher is a research associate at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University.