Saskia Sassen sociologist and economist - professor at Columbia University and at the London School of Economics Richard Sennett sociologist and historian - professor at the London School of Economics and at NYU Global City into Perspective
Jean Viard sociologist and economist - associate director of research at the CNRS - director of the Éditions de l’Aube publishing company The Age of Discontinuity
Christophe Le Gac architect - art, architecture and cinema critic - founder of Parpaings - professor at the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts TALM Architectural Strategies and Globalizatio
Yann Moulier-Boutang economist and essayist - professor at UTC Compiègne and at Shanghai's UTSEUS Complexcity laboratory Superposing the city
Richard Sennett sociologist and historian - professor at the London School of Economics and at NYU No One Likes A City That’s Too Smart
Carlo Ratti architect - founder of the Carlo Ratti Associati design firm - director of the MIT SENSEable City Lab Cities of Information
John E. Fernández urban planner and architect - head of the ESI at MIT - director of the International Design Center at MIT Typological Metabolism of Urban Transitions
Michael Schellenberger researcher - cofounder of the Breakthrough Institute think tank A right to Prosperity and Nature