Edward Aspinall is a professor and head of the Department of Political and Social Change, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australian National University. He is a specialist in the politics of Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia, on which he has published widely.

Nicole Curato is a professor of political sociology at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance. She is the author of the prize-winning book Democracy in a Time of Misery: From Spectacular Tragedy to Deliberative Action (2019) and has published in leading academic journals including Science, International Political Science Review, and Theory and Society, among others.

Diego Fossati is Assistant Professor of Asian and International Studies at City University of Hong Kong. He studies political behaviour, accountability and representation, especially in the context of Southeast Asia. His work has been published in leading international peer-reviewed journals.

Eve Warburton received a PhD from the Australian National University’s Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs. She researches representation and governance in young democracies, with a focus on Indonesia and Southeast Asia more broadly. Her work has been published in a range of journals.

Meredith L. Weiss is professor of Political Science in the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is a specialist in the politics of Southeast Asia, especially Malaysia and Singapore.