Andreas Kruck is the principal investigator (PI) of the project and Senior Researcher & Lecturer in Global Governance at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute of Political Science, LMU Munich. His research focuses on international institutions and private actors. He studies power shifts and institutional change of international institutions, cooptation in great power rivalries, contestation of international institutions, and qualitative methods, including methods of foresight in IR. His empirical expertise is in the fields of international economic and security institutions, private economic standards, credit rating agencies, non-Western emerging economies, transformations in the making of security policies, and private military and security companies. 

Nadia El Ghali is a research associate on the project, where she contributes to research on the (de)escalation of a potential violent conflict in Taiwan as well as on scenarios of securitized economic conflict over critical digital infrastructures. She studied political science and law at LMU Munich, as well as the University of Copenhagen. She has worked as a research assistant at the POLCON research project and as a student assistant at the Chair for Global Governance, both at LMU Munich. Her research is focused on the role of geopolitical swing states in global internet governance and the future of US-China-EU relations. Her master thesis focused on multi-stakeholder governance in the internet and environmental sector. 

Simon Weisser is a research associate on the project, where he has contributed to conceptualizing the project and developing the methods for paths projections. Moreover, he researches (inter-)institutional rivalries between the US-dominated IMF and alternative, China-promoted institutions in global finance. Currently pursuing his doctoral research at the University of Cambridge, Simon has studied political science, philosophy, and law at LMU Munich, Trinity College Dublin, and the University of Copenhagen. His research interests focus on the impact of geopoliticization on the EU’s future external and internal relations, both among member states and with key global actors, including the United States and China.