Marc Fleurbaey is the Robert E. Kuenne Professor in Economics and Humanistic Studies at Princeton University. His research has focused on the elaboration of social criteria for the evaluation of public policies, incorporating principles of fairness. He has been a professor of economics at the Universities of Cergy-Pontoise and Pau, then a research director at CNRS, and as of 2011 will be a professor at Princeton University. He has been a fellow and visiting professor at the LSE, and held visiting positions in Oxford, Davis, CORE, and Hitotsubashi.

Miles Corak is a Professor of Economics at the University of Ottawa, where he has worked since 2007. His research focuses on inequality and social mobility, child poverty, unemployment, and access to university education. He is the editor of three books, and numerous articles on these issues, which have been repeatedly cited by the major international media.