Sara Romero-Muñoz is a Teaching Assistant and Ph.D. student at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in the organizational management and sustainable development program. Sara holds several degrees: Master's Degree in Technology for Sustainable Development, Graduate in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Graduate in Economic Sciences, and Graduate in Marketing and Communication. She has worked for the last eight years in the Innovation and Technology for Development Centre at the same university, coordinating applied research projects on sustainable and equitable urban climate actions from multi-actor collaborative approaches. She has been the University's contact with the Madrid City Council to facilitate internal coordination with University programs for climate action, such as the Metropolitan Forest project and the City Studio Program (City-University scientific collaboration program for students writing a final master's thesis on urban challenges towards climate neutrality in 2030-2050).

Teresa Sánchez-Chaparro is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Organisational Engineering at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). She is academic director at the Innovation and Technology for Development Centre (itdUPM) and member of the Sustainable Organizations research group. Before joining UPM, she held various positions in organizations linked to quality assurance in higher education. Her current research interests are sustainable organization strategies, sustainable businesses and the fourth sector, social marketing, and quality assurance in higher education.

Víctor Muñoz Sanz is an Assistant Professor of Urban Design in the Urbanism Department at TU Delft, currently leading research on productive cities and landscapes. Prior to this, he was a postdoctoral researcher at TU Delft, coordinator of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre, and co-principal researcher of Automated Landscapes at Het Nieuwe Instituut. Víctor holds a degree in Architecture from Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, an MA in architecture in urban design from Harvard University, and a PhD cum laude in architecture from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

Nico Tillie is an Assistant Professor of Landscape in the Urbanism Department at TU Delft. Before starting his academic career, he was responsible for Rotterdam’s main proposals and publications for the Rotterdam Architecture Biennales themed "Urban by Nature" and "Making City", focusing on Urban Metabolism and greening between 2012 and 2014. He is a (co)initiator and (co)author of three successful European projects: MUSIC, CityKeys (Rotterdam), and Celsius Cities (TU Delft). In 2009, he entered academia as a researcher in sustainable urban energy planning as the Climate Design & Sustainability Chair of the Department of Architectural Engineering + Technology, Faculty of Architecture & the Built Environment at TU Delft. In 2013, he started working as the Chair of Landscape Architecture in the Urbanism department, focusing on urban ecology, planting, and urban metabolism. Since 2008, he has represented the Rotterdam region with the German Marshall Fund in Washington DC. Since 2014, he has been Vice President of the World Council on City Data and director of the European office. He is a Senior Fellow of the Global Cities Institute at the University of Toronto. In 2019, he became a research fellow in urban ecology with Birdlife Netherlands and is setting up an urban ecology chair at TU Delft.