Dr Dieter Plehwe Research Fellow of the Inequality and Social Policy Research Unit, Berlin Social Science Center
Professor Arndt Sorge Honorary Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Social Science, University of Potsdam
Professor Helen Giunashvili Helen Giunashvili is a researcher at G. Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies, Ilia State University in Tbilisi and is also affiliated to the Graduate School of the Methodology of the Humanities in Paris.
Professor Anthony Cutler Cultural relations between Byzantium and early Islam; ivory carving in these societies.