Fred Grünfeld is associate professor of International Relations and of the Law of International Organizations in the Department of International and European Law at Maastricht University and the Maastricht Centre for Human Rights. He also teaches at the University College Maastricht. Fred was professor in the Causes of Gross Human Rights Violations at the Centre for Conflict Studies in the Department of History at Utrecht University. Fred has studied Political Science at the VU University in Amsterdam. His current research is on comparative genocide studies (Rwanda, Srebrenica, and Darfur), in particular the failures of Third Parties to prevent the genocide.

Wessel N. Vermeulen is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies (OxCARRE) in the Department of Economics, University of Oxford. Wessel graduated in Economics at Maastricht University and obtained his Ph.D (2013) in Economics from the University of Luxembourg with a dissertation on the macroeconomic consequences of the exploitation of natural resources. His main research topics include migration of labour, international finance, and the economics of natural resources.

Jasper Krommendijk is a Ph.D in International and European Human Rights Law at the Maastricht Centre for Human Rights, Maastricht. As of July 2014, he will be assistant professor of European Law at the Radboud University Nijmegen. Jasper studied International and European Law, as well as International Relations, at Groningen University. Jasper has published on matters of EU law, international investment law, and the law and politics of human rights. His Ph.D (2014) deals with the domestic impact and effectiveness of the recommendations of UN human rights treaty bodies in the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Finland.