Pepper Culpepper is Blavatnik Professor of Government and Public Policy at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College. He currently serves as Vice-Dean of Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government. He lives in Oxford with his family.

Taeku Lee is Bae Family Professor of Government and Dunster House Faculty Dean at Harvard University. Lee is also Past President of the American Political Science Association and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.