Dr. Michael Kaeding is the Professor for European Integration and European Union Politics at the Institute of Political Science, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. He is a senior research fellow at the University of Ljubljana and visiting fellow of the European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA) in Maastricht, member of the flying faculties of the College of Europe in Bruges, and the Turkish-German University in Istanbul.
Dr. Boštjan Udovic is the Professor of Diplomacy at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He has been a guest professor at the Department of Political Sciences at the PLUS University of Salzburg (Austria), and for years member of the Strategic Council of Foreign Policy at the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia.