Jesper Bjarnesen is an anthropologist working mainly on migration and mobility through wartime and peace in West Africa. Other interests is wartime displacement, intergenerational relations, rural-urban connections, informal labour recruitment, transnational migration and urban land rights.

B Camminga (they/them) earned a Doctorate in 2016 from the University of Cape Town's Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA). They have since held a postdoctoral scholarship at Wits University's African Institute for Migration and Society, and several visiting fellowships. They are currently holding a research fellowship at Berlin's Center for Cultural Inquiry (ICI). They work on gender identity and expression issues across the African continent, with a particular emphasis on transgender migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers.

Florence Ebila is a professor at Makerere University's Department of Women & Gender Studies. She earned a Doctorate in African Languages and Literature from the University of Wisconsin, Madison (USA). Her research interests include gender studies, cultural studies, and conflict studies.

Valentina Fusari holds a PhD in Political Science and a Master's degree in Anthropology. She is presently a lecturer at the University of Turin, teaching "History of Africa."

Giulia Micciché is currently working at CIFA NGO as Desk Officer for Development Cooperation programs in Africa (Ethiopia, Djibouti, Senegal) and she has over than twenty years’ experience in North Africa, with a focus on migration and protection of vulnerable groups (unaccompanied minors, victims of trafficking) and gender dynamics in migration.

Amon Ashaba Mwiine holds a PhD in Sociology from Stellenbosch University in South Africa. He is presently a lecturer at Makerere University's School of Women and Gender Studies. His research interests include qualitative ethnographic and narrative methods, gender and politics, and masculinity studies.

Marie Rodet has an MA in Politics and a PhD in African Studies and is a specialist on West Africa. Her research interests include gender, law, Religion, migration, and slavery in francophone West Africa. She has been a Reader in the History of Africa at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS, University of London) since September 2020, where she delivers a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses.

Philipp Schulz has been a research fellow at the University of Bremen's Institute for Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS) since 2018. He is additionally a research associate at Makerere University's School of Law's Refugee Law Project in Uganda. His research interests include international relations, peace and conflict studies, feminist security studies, and questions of research ethics. His present research is particularly focused with the gendered dynamics of political violence and armed conflict, with a particular emphasis on masculinity conceptions.

Catriona Waitt teaches Clinical Pharmacology and Global Health at the University of Liverpool (UK), and is is a Wellcome Clinical Research Career Development Fellow at the Makerere University College of Health Sciences (Uganda). Her main focus is on medication dose and safety in groups that are complex and frequently overlooked in clinical trials, such as pregnant and breastfeeding women and their infants.

Shola Adenekan is an Associate Professor of African Literature at the University of Ghent, Belgium.

A clinical engineer with over 20 years of experience in the field, Stefano Bergamasco is Director of the Study Center of the Italian Association of Clinical Engineers and Secretary of the Clinical Engineering Division of the IFMBE. He is also a member of the Founders' Council of Global Clinical Engineering. With many years of experience gained at companies in the sector in Italy and abroad, in 2016, he started his independent professional activity. He is currently partner and director of MedTech Projects Srl.

Victoria Bernal is a cultural anthropologist and professor at the University of California, Irvine.

Francesca Costero is International Cooperation and Social Cohesion Manager at Enaip Piemonte and EPALE Ambassador.

Armando Cutolo teaches Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology at the University of Siena, at the Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Studies, where he is an associate professor.

Dominica Dipio is a full professor of literature and film in the Department of Literature at Makerere University.

Gianluca Iazzolino is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP) at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford.

Alessandro Jedlowski is a media anthropologist at the Les Afriques dans le Monde research centre, Sciences Po Bordeaux.

Work and Organizations Psychologist, Davide Marcato is a 5 years Enaip employee. Recently has started to work as vocational training tutor for the Intercultural Mediator profile course and is operating on all the Active Labour Policies for job search support for unemployed people.

Stefano Merante is the programme officer in charge of the Skills Development portfolio within the Employment Policy and Analysis Programme of the International Training Center of the ILO in Turin (Italy).

Nicholas Mugabi is a lecturer at Makerere University in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.

Rosalind Parkes-Ratanshi is the Founding Director of the Academy for Health Innovation, Uganda based at the Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University and is a Principal Research Associate at University of Cambridge, UK.

Ron Salaj is a polymorphous worker and transdisciplinary activist working at the intersection of human rights, technology, semiotics of new media, and critical theory. Currently, he co-ordinates a Master programme on "ICT for Development and Social Good'' with University of Turin and ImpactSkills S.L.R.

Giovanna Santanera is a cultural anthropologist working at the University of Milano-Bicocca. She conducts research on digital media in West and Central Africa and in the diaspora. Her fieldwork in Cameroon is centered on the intersections between video technologies and social inequalities while in Italy she studies the role played by new media in forced migration from West Africa.

Luigi Christopher Veggetti Kanku was born in Kinshasa, Congo in 1979. He was one of the first Afro-descendant artists to move into the national contemporary art scene. His artistic career has led him to tell the story of Italy in many ways, putting a strong focus on the transformation of the social fabric of recent years.