Pierre-Marie Dupuy is Emeritus Professor at the University of Paris (Panthéon-Assas) and at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. He also held the chair of general international law at the European University Institute in Florence (2000–8). Professor Dupuy has an extended experience in international law practice, in particular as counsel for governments in numerous cases before the International Court of Justice as well as international arbitrator in the field of international investments law. He is a member of the Institut de Droit International (International Law Institute).
Jorge E. Viñuales is the Pictet Chair of International Environmental Law and an Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, where he is also Director of the Programme on Environmental Governance at the Centre for International Environmental Studies.