Roland Benedikter is Co-Head of the Center for Advanced Studies at Eurac Research in Bolzano, Italy and UNESCO Chair in Interdisciplinary Anticipation and Global-Local Transformation. He is author of Religion in the Age of Re-Globalization and coeditor of Re-Globalization: New Frontiers of Political, Economic and Social Globalization.

Harald Pechlaner is Head of the Center for Advanced Studies at Eurac Research. He is also Professor, Chair of Tourism, and Head of the Centre for Entrepreneurship at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany.

Ingrid Kofler is Research Fellow and Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.