Matthew D. Adler is Richard A. Horvitz Professor of Law and Professor of Economics, Philosophy, and Public Policy at Duke University. He is the author of Well-Being and Fair Distribution: Beyond Cost-Benefit Analysis (Oxford University Press, 2012), and, with Marc Fleurbaey, the editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy. His current scholarship focuses on the theory and implementation of social welfare functions as a framework for evaluating governmental policies.

Urs Fischbacher is Professor for Applied Research in Economics at the University of Konstanz and head of the Thurgau Institute of Economics in Kreuzlingen (Switzerland). His research is focused on the investigation of non-selfish preferences, both experimentally and theoretically. For example, he provided important experimental findings on punishment behaviour, in particular on the role of intentions and responsibility. In addition, he developed the widely used software z-Tree, which allows the efficient implementation of lab experiments.

Francesco Guala is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Milan. He is the author of The Methodology of Experimental Economics (2005) and co-editor, with Daniel Steel, of The Philosophy of Social Science Reader (2011). He works primarily on economic methodology and social ontology, using theoretical and empirical methods.

Nicole Hassoun is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at Binghamton University. From 2006–2012 she was an Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University, affiliated with Carnegie Mellon's Program on International Relations and the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Bioethics and Health Law. In 2009–2010 she held a postdoctoral position at Stanford University and visited at the United Nation's World Institute for Development Economics Research. She has also been a visiting scholar at the Centre for Poverty Research in Austria and the Centre for Advanced Studies in Frankfurt. Her book Globalization and Global Justice: Shrinking Distance, Expanding Obligations was published with Cambridge University Press in 2012.

Sem de Maagt is a PhD student in philosophy at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. His PhD thesis is on constructivist theories of justice, and the role of conceptions of human nature and personhood in theories of justice.

Prasanta K. Pattanaik is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Economics, University of California, Riverside. His research interests include welfare economics and the theory of social choice, decision theory, the measurement of deprivation and living standards, and development economics.

H. Orri Stefánsson is a PhD student at London School of Economics and Political Science, working mainly on the foundations of decision theory and philosophical issues surrounding counterfactuals. His PhD thesis is an attempt to solve certain decision theoretic paradoxes by extending the domain of utility (or desirability) functions to counterfactual prospects.

Peter Stone is Ussher Assistant Professor of Political Science at Trinity College Dublin. He has previously taught at Stanford University and held a Faculty Fellowship at Tulane University's Center for Ethics and Public Affairs. He works in contemporary political theory, with particular interest in theories of justice, democratic theory, rational choice theory and the philosophy of social science. He is the author of The Luck of the Draw: The Role of Lotteries in Decision Making (Oxford University Press, 2011) and the editor of Lotteries in Public Life: A Reader (Imprint Academic, 2011).

Verena Utikal is Professor for Behavioural Economics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Her research focuses on moral behaviour and non-selfish preferences.

Yongsheng Xu is Professor of Economics at Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University. His current research interests include measuring deprivation in a multi-dimensional framework, conceptualizing freedom in welfare economics, and analysing solutions to non-convex bargaining problems. He is Associate Editor of the journals Social Choice and Welfare and Studies in Microeconomics.