Ève Chiapello is Professor (Directrice d'Études) at EHESS (School for the Advanced Studies in Social Sciences), Paris, where she holds a chair on "the sociology of transformations of capitalism". Her present work is about the financialization of public policies, on which she has organized a series of international conferences with the University of Hamburg financed by the Anneliese Maier Research Award received in 2016 from the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation. She is a member of CEMS (Centre d'Étude des Mouvements Sociaux - EHESS/CNRS- UMR 8044- INSERM U1276).

Anita Engels is Professor of Sociology at the University of Hamburg. She has spent the past two decades working on climate change and social change, and has published extensively on the creation and dynamics of carbon markets, both in the European Union and in China. Her most recent work focusses on companies and their carbon management strategies, and on real-world laboratories. She is in the board of the Cluster of Excellence Climate, Climatic Change, and Society (CLICCS) at the University of Hamburg, Germany.

Eduardo Gonçalves Gresse is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Cluster of Excellence CLICCS, at the University of Hamburg, Germany. In his PhD (Sociology), he investigated the sense-making and the social engagement of non-state actors with the 2030 Agenda in Brazil. He is currently a co-editor of the Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook, an annual publication that introduces a new, interdisciplinary methodology to assess the plausibility of climate futures. His research interests include Sustainable Development Governance, Climate Futures and Brazilian studies.