Andrea Calabrò, PhD, is director of the IPAG Chair for Sustainable Family Business & Entrepreneurship and professor of family business & entrepreneurship at IPAG Business School, Nice, France. He is global academic director of the STEP Project Global Consortium. He has published journal articles on family firms in leading international journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, and Harvard Business Review.
 
Mariateresa Torchia, PhD, is full professor of strategic management, director of research, and director of the doctorate in business administration at the International University of Monaco. She holds a PhD in management and governance from the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. She has published journal articles on corporate governance, gender diversity, and family firms in leading international peer-reviewed journals such as: Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Business Ethics, International Business Review, and many others.
 
Fabio Quarato, PhD, is lecturer of corporate governance and managing director of the AIDAF-EY Chair in Strategic Management in Family Business in memory of Alberto Falck at Bocconi University, where he is also co-coordinator of the AUB Observatory. He holds a PhD in management and technology. His research focuses on corporate governance and family business. He has published papers in international journals such as Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Family Business Strategy, Small Business Economics, and many others.
 
Alfredo Valentino, PhD, is an associate professor of international business at ESCE International Business School, Paris. He got his PhD in management from Luiss Guido Carli University in Italy. His research interests include headquarter-subsidiary relations, location and relocation decisions of multinational enterprises, internal and external embeddedness of subsidiaries, and family firm internationalization. He has published book chapters and research articles in journal like Journal of Management Studies, Journal of World Business, and International Business Review.
 
Domenico Rocco Cambrea, PhD, is senior assistant professor of business administration at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. He holds a PhD in applied economics and managerial decisions. His research profiles are mainly focused on cash reserves, and corporate governance in family and non-family firms. He has published papers in international journals such as Journal of Family Business Strategy, Management Decision, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, and many others.
 
Fynn-Willem Lohe, PhD, is a senior research fellow at Witten Institute for Family Business (WIFU), involved in various projects and publications. Since 2019, he has been a business management consultant at the Federal Association of the German Foundry Industry (BDG) and became the manager of the European Foundry Association (CAEF) in 2020.

Marina D. Palm, PhD, pursued her doctorate at the Chair for Family Business at WHU. She has since joined her own family business, Palm Group, one of the leading companies in the European paper industry.

Vanessa Diaz-Moriana, PhD, is an Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship at Pablo de Olavide University (Spain) and member of the DCU National Centre for Family Business (Ireland). Her research lies at the intersection between strategic entrepreneurship and family business and her work is focused on how entrepreneurial firms make decisions and eventually act.

Nadine Kammerlander, PhD, FFI Fellow, is a full professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management (Germany) and the Director of the Institute of Family Business & Mittelstandat. In teaching and research, she focuses on innovation, employees and governance in family businesses and family offices. 

Kajsa Haag, PhD, CFBA/CFWA, is an assistant professor in business administration at Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping University, Sweden. She is involved in research, education, and societal engagement through the Centre for Family Entrepreneurship and Ownership (CeFEO) at Jönköping International Business School. Her research interests include succession and strategic renewal of family firms, ownership dynamics, family enterprise foundations, and the role of family firms in sustainable development.
 
Hanna Almlöf, PhD, is an associate professor in business law at Linköping University, Sweden, and an affiliated researcher at the Centre for Family Entrepreneurship and Ownership (CeFEO), Jönköping International Business School. Her main research focus is on owner-managed companies, family firms and enterprise foundations.
 
Marina Bitsch Madsen is currently head of ethics and regulation at FSR – Danish Auditors. She has a background as a company law scholar at the Department of Law, Aarhus University, where her research was focused on corporate governance, shareholder engagement, small and medium-sized companies and institutional investors.
 
Mette Neville, PhD, is a professor in business law at Aarhus University, Denmark, and director of the Centre for Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). Her research interest includes owner-managed SMEs, family business, the value creation of the board of directors, the regulation of SMEs. She is responsible for the Board Program at Aarhus University.