Sheryl Lightfoot is Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia and author of Global Indigenous Politics: A Subtle Revolution. She was Canada Research Chair in Global Indigenous Rights and Politics from 2013 to 2023.

Elsa Stamatopoulou is Director of the Indigenous Peoples' Rights Program at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University and author of Cultural Rights in International Law. She became the first Chief of the Secretariat of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in 2003.