Rainer Kattel (Estonia)
Is Professor of Innovation Policy and Technology Governance, Director of Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences. Tallinn Technical University. Kattel is also an analyst in the Estonian think-tank PRAXIS. Kattel’s main area of study is innovation policy and economical development strategies. In his studies he has highlighted the negative long-term effects of the economical policy conducted in Central and Eastern Europe after fall of communism.

Publications:
"European Eastern Enlargement as Europe’s Attempted Economic Suicide?"(with Erik S. Reinert), The Other Canon and Tallinn University of Technology Working Papers in Technology Governance and Economic Dynamics, no 14, 2007.

"Catching up, forging ahead or falling behind? Central & Eastern European development in 1990-2005" (with Marek Tiits, Tarmo Kalvet and Dorel Tamm), Innovation. The European Journal of Social Science Research, 2008, 21, 1 65-85.

Magnus Marsdal (Norway)
Is the leader of the think-tank Manifest, working with topics such as economical policy, democracy and trade unionism. Marsdal is in addition author with background from several NGOs working focusing upon the weakening of labour rights as a consequence of economical liberalisation. He has also been the author of several books and articles highlighting new strategies for the political left.

Publications:
The Third Left- Radical Individualism
The Frp-Code

Jonas Bals (Norway)
Is ombudsman in Oslo Construction Workers’ Union, with special focus upon Baltic immigrant workers in Norway. Jonas has broad experience with labour rights and working conditions for immigrant workers in Norway, and has been actively involved in recent revelations of poor working conditions for Baltic immigrant workers in Norway

Publications:
Utopia, revolution and socialism

Asbjørn Wahl (Norway)
Is the leader of the NGO Campaign for the Welfare state. He has extensive and long experience working in and with different trade unions, both national and international. He especially concerned with strategies and political outcomes.

Publications:
What can we learn from the Nordic model?, In Labour, Capital and Society, nr. 40:1&2/2007, s. 81-105. Halifax.

Andrius Bielskis (Lithuania)
Is Professor of Political Theory at ISM University of Management and Economics, Vilnius. He is one of the founders of NK95. Prior to moving back to Lithuania in 2006 he studied at the University of Warwick where he received his PhD in political philosophy. He taught philosophy and political theory at a number of European universities, including University of Warwick, Aston University, London Metropolitan University, Katholische Universität Eichstätt, University of Vilnius, and University of Klaipeda. He is the author of a number of scholarly articles and the monograph Towards a Post-Modern Understanding of the Political (2005, Palgrave-Macmillan). He also writes political commentary for the internet news-site delfi.lt.

Prof.dr. Gintautas Mazeikis (Lithuania) - Head of Department of Philosophy at Siauliai university
Spheres of main interests: Critics of Creative industries, Propaganda and Symbolical thinking, Power and Leadership, Modern forms of Symbolical thinking. Special interests: Pre history and post history of International Situationism; political anthropology of postmodern society.
Mazeikis is the author of numerous books and scholarly articles including Propaganda (2006), Neįgalumas ir socialinis dalyvavimas (Disability and Social Participation, 2007) and Filosofinės antropologijos pragmatika ir analitika (The Pragmatics and Analysis of Philosophical Anthropology, 2005).

Algirdas Davidavicius (Lithuania) - has a philosophical background and works as a free-lance consultant in gender equality and social development.