Irmi Seidl is an economist and titular professor at the University of Zurich. She heads the Economics and Social Sciences Research Unit at the 'Eidgenössischen Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft' (WSL). She also teaches regularly at the University of Zurich and at ETH Zurich. She is a growth-critical ecological economist interested in the fields of conservation and biodiversity, land use, renewable energy, and economic growth.  She is, among other things, co-editor of the journal GAIA, elected member of the 'Akademie für Raumforschung und Landesplanung', and jury member of the Kapp Research Award for Ecological Economics.

Professor Julia Steinberger researches and teaches in the interdisciplinary areas of Ecological Economics and Industrial Ecology. Her research examines the connections between resource use (energy and materials, greenhouse gas emissions) and societal performance (economic activity and human wellbeing). She is interested in quantifying the current and historical linkages between resource use and socioeconomic parameters, and identifying alternative development pathways to guide the necessary transition to a low carbon society. She is the recipient of a Leverhulme Research Leadership Award for her research project ‘Living Well Within Limits’ investigating how universal human well-being might be achieved within planetary boundaries. She is Lead Author for the IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report with Working Group 3. 

Janina Urban received a M.Sc. in Economics from the Free University in Berlin and worked as a research associate at the Research Institute for Societal Development in Düsseldorf. She has published in the areas of economics teaching and theory of science, is a lecturer of pluralist economics and speaks to the topics of currency areas and the Green New Deal. With the support of the INET and together with her colleagues from the German speaking Netzwerk Plurale Ökonomik, they established a Certificate for Pluralist Economics which finds new institutional ways to mainstream pluralist economics by course accreditation and the production of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). 

 Alyssa Schneebaum is an assistant professor of Economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business in Austria. Her research centers around questions about how people experience the economy: how does gender and identity affect economic processes and outcomes? How (un)equally are wealth and income distributed? Does everyone have access to a good education? In her work, she uses applied econometrics to answer specific questions that fall under those general frameworks.

Mascha Madörin is an economist.  During her career she has been working on the following subjects amongst others: Development economics, financial crises, gender budgeting and the political and social economy of care in Switzerland, as well as theoretical work on feminist economics, mainly on its macro- and meso-economic aspects.

Johanna Herrigel is co-founder and project manager at Technikum Urbane Agrarökologie in Zurich and works part-time at HEKS/EPER as Advisor Right to Food and Land Rights. She is passionate about agroecology, feminism and social transformation. Johanna has spent about ten years as a PhD student and postdoc in economic geography researching global agricultural markets, development policy, feminist economics, alternative economic structures and sustainable food systems. In her spare time, Johanna is an enthusiastic solawi-cooperative member of "meh als gmües", an active member of Ernährungsforum Zürich, on the organization committee of Agroecology Works!, on the board of neighborhood FoodCoop Speichär and much more.