Matthew D. Stephen is Senior Research Fellow at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. From 2018 to 2019, he was Interim Professor for Political Science at the Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg and Senior Research Fellow at the GIGA German Institute for Global and Area Studies, Hamburg. He also lectures part time at the Stanford University Berlin Program. His research concentrates on international power shifts and international institutions.
Michael Zürn is Director at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, and Professor of International Relations at the Freie Universität Berlin. He is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences as well of the European Academy and was the founding rector of the Hertie School of Governance. His research examines governance beyond the nation state, and the legitimacy and authority of global governance institutions. He has - among other themes - most extensively written on the emergence and functioning of inter- and supranational institutions, as well as on the normative tensions and political conflicts that these developments unfold.