Dr Veronika Clegg is an Independent Scholar. She gained her PhD at the University of Southampton in the Politics of Ukraine, and has worked with state and private sector organisations in the country.

Dr Peter Clegg is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of the West of England, Bristol. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in London, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica.