Volodymyr Yermolenko (born in 1980) is a Ukrainian philosopher, writer, journalist and author of several non-fiction and fiction books as well as of many articles and essays for Ukrainian and international media. He holds a doctoral degree in political studies from EHESS at Paris, and teaches at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. He also works as Director of Analytics for Internews Ukraine and editor-in-chief of the site UkraineWorld.org that explains Ukrainian developments to a foreign audience in English

Peter Pomerantsev is Director of the Arena Program at the London School of Economics.

Andreas Umland, M.Phil. (Oxford), Dr.Phil. (FU Berlin), Ph.D. (Cambridge), Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs in Stockholm, Senior Expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv, and Associate Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.