Ali Mozaffari is Honorary Senior Fellow with the Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne, a former Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow, and serves as Vice President (Communications) of the Association for Critical Heritage Studies. He researches the geopolitics of the past, culture, and the built environment in West Asia. His publications include Heritage Movements in Asia (Berghahn Books, 2020), Development, Architecture and the Formation of Heritage in Late-Twentieth Century Iran (Manchester University Press, 2020), and World Heritage in Iran (Routledge, 2016). He co-edits Berghahn's Explorations in Heritage Studies and co-founded the Heritage and Transnationalism Network (ACHS).

David C. Harvey is Associate Professor in Critical Heritage Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark. He focuses on the geographies of heritage, including processual conceptions, heritage-landscape relations, climate change, remembrance, oral history, and farming practice. He is currently researching "heritage border complexes," "peaceful/pacific heritage," and "heritage, walking and everyday landscapes." His recent publications include The Future of Heritage as Climates Change: Loss, Adaptation and Creativity (Routledge, 2015), Commemorative Spaces of the First World War (Routledge, 2018), Creating Heritage: Unrecognised Pasts and Rejected Futures (Routledge 2020) and The Real Agricultural Revolution: The Transformation of English Farming (1939-1985) (Boydell 2023).