Alvaro Artigas is an associate researcher at the CEE (Sciences-Po Paris). He completed a PhD in Comparative Politics and Political Economy, and an M.A. in Comparative Studies at Sciences-Po. He was a research fellow at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung in Berlin and at the Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo and has carried joint research with the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Universiti Malaya, the BRICS Policy Center of Rio de Janeiro, the PUC of Lima  and El Ateneo of Manila.

He has participated into several research programs: with the Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées of Paris on the large infrastructural modernization in the Pacific Rim (Chile, Peru, Malaysia) and with the USPC-NUS consortium on Green Growth in South East Asian metropolis with a focus on MetroManila and Iskandar. He is presently co-steering the MEGOWAS (Metropolitan Governance of Water Systems) USPC-NUS project together with the Institute of Water Policy at the LKY University in Singapour. He is a member of the strategic committee of the Chair Villes et numérique at Sciences Po. His research addresses the complexity of major infrastructural and developmental programs and their specific sectoral and territorial outcomes in large urban entities.

Laetitia Boisdron, born in Holland, spent her childhood in Brazil and completed high school in the United States (Princeton and Washington DC). She arrived in France when she was 17 years old and after majoring in French literature during her first years of university, she graduated from the Sorbonne with a D.E.A. in the didactics of language and culture. For more than fifteen years she has taught French, literature, and methodology for foreign students at Sciences-Po, ESCP, ESCE, and American University Programs in Paris (CUPA, North Western University, St. Johns University, Delaware University). For three years she was the coordinator for cultural activities for the NUSP program (North Western University and Sciences-Po). She was also an instructor for French teachers for short summer sessions in France, Finland, and Azerbaidjan. She is currently the adjunct director for UPF programs (Illinois Program in Paris/North Carolina Consortium in Paris), specifically in charge of student life and the supervision of independent studies.