Calin Emilian Hintea is a Professor at Babes Bolyai University, Romania and Adjunct Professor at Michigan State University. He teaches Public Management and Strategy courses. Professor Hintea is the Dean of the College of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences at BBU. He is also a former Secretary of State, Head of Strategy Unit, the Prime Minister's Office (2009-2011) as well as a former Chair of the Public Administration Department at BBU (2004-2012). He is the Senior Editor of the Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (ISI Journal).

Theo van der Krogt studied sociology at the University of Tilburg, the Netherlands, and worked as policy advisor, researcher and university professor. In 1981 he wrote his thesis titled 'Professionalization and Collective Power'. From 1978 until his retirement in 2002 dr. Van der Krogt was associate professor Public Management at the School of Management and Governance, University of Twente (the Netherlands). He was also director of the Public Management Training Center of this school. Since 1999 he is the secretary-general of the European Association for Public Administration Accreditation (EAPAA), a voluntary association with the mission to promote the quality of European academic level public administration programmes by developing appropriate accreditation standards and procedures, and by accrediting public administration programmes based on these criteria and procedures.