Gabrielle Marceau is professor in the Department of Public International Law and International organisation at the Law Faculty, University of Geneva, and the Hyman Soloway Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa. She was also a visiting professor in several other universities and institutes. Professor Marceau has been involved with associations and groups promoting international (economic) law, and she has published extensively on the relationship between trade and non-trade concerns, dispute settlement, and international organizations. Professor Marceau worked for 30 years in the Secretariat of the WTO, in dispute settlement, in research and in the Director General's office.

Henner Gött is a legal and policy advisor at the German Federal Chancellery in Berlin and a professor of law honoris causa at Leuphana University Lüneburg. His research focuses on international economic law, international organizations, international labour law, and on EU and German constitutional law. He previously held positions as a legal advisor at the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action, senior research fellow at Georg-August-University Göttingen, guest lecturer at several other universities, and Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the European Society of International Law's Interest Group on the European and International Rule of Law.