Guangwen Kong received her Ph.D. degree in Operations Management from the University of Southern California in 2013. She started her academic career as an Assistant Professor of the Industrial& Systems Engineering at the University of Minnesota, and then joined Fox School of Business, Temple University. Her research studies emerging problems in sharing or on-demand platforms using models, experiments, and data analysis, with a strong focus on behavior, incentive, and their implications to policies and operational decisions. She has published her papers in leading journals such as Management Science, Manufacturing &Service Operations Management, and Production and Operations Management. She is an editorial review board member of Production and Operations Management, associate editor of Journal and has served as an NSF panelist in 2014. She received the M&SOM Meritorious Service Award (2018, 2019, 2020) and Management Science Meritorious Service Award (2018, 2019).

Associate Professor Pinar Ayyildiz is a translator/interpreter, sociologist, teacher trainer, language instructor and educational researcher and holds MA and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Educational Management. She worked as a head teacher, academic coordinator, dean of students and director of English preparatory schools in higher education institutions. To date she has taught several courses in various faculties. She has worked on topics like Epistemology of Educational Sciences. She holds various academic memberships and is the reviewer/editor of international journals.

Dr Fouksman is a Lecturer/Assistant Professor at the Centre for Public Policy Research at King's College London. She is also a research associate of the University of Oxford and the University of the Witwatersrand. Liz's research focuses on understanding moral, social and cultural attachments to work and working. It looks at the impediment such attachments pose to new imaginaries of the future of labour and distribution in an increasingly automated world. In particular, Liz focuses on the ways the long-term unemployed in countries with high inequality and unempoyment rates think about links between time-use, work, and income. The research project looks to fieldwork in South Africa and Namibia to ask how such links challenge both proposals to expand social protection through means such as unconditional cash transfers, as well as more radical calls for the decommodification of labor via mechanisms such as a universal basic income guarantee and/or shorter working hours. Liz also does action-research with the global movement around universal basic income guarantees (UBI), and complements research in southern Africa with comparative case studies in the Global North.

Giulia Barbareschi is a Research Fellow in Disability and Assistive Technology Innovation at the Keio School of Media Design in Yokohama and the Global Disability Innovation Hub in London. She received her PhD in 2018 from University College London. From 2018 to 2021 she was a research fellow at the UCL Interaction Centre. Her research interest center on the design, development and evaluation of new and existing technologies to empower people with disabilities living in different parts of the world.