• YAMAMURA Nobuo is a Professor at Takushoku University in Tokyo, specializing in financial systems and sustainable finance. With a background in the theory of money and banking history, he researched banking business at the Free University Berlin and comparative financial systems and supervision at the Financial Services Agency of the Japanese Government. He has been considering how to adapt the financial system for humane living in the aging society (financial gerontology) and now also against the climate change in the Anthropocene era. His interdisciplinary approach integrates insights from critical economics, social systems theory, behavioral economics, business studies, pedagogy, and law. He has been a member of the governing board for the Tokyo branch of the Japan Scientists' Association and currently serves as a board member of the Innovation Fusion Society of Japan. Beyond research, he has practical experience supervising a local nursing home, the university library, a students' flat and collective housings, and reforestation projects in San Paulo.
• Professor Maksim Khomiakov (ORCID: 0000-0002-1996-9896) is a historical and cultural sociologist with a strong background in philosophy and intellectual history. His main research interests are in historical-comparative sociology, sociology of modernity, social and political theory, philosophy and sociology of education, and Western and Russian intellectual history. He has recentrly worked as a Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan), while had previously taken various positions in such Russian universities as Higher School of Economics (Saint-Petersburg) and Ural Federal University (Ekaterinburg). He held visiting positions at Free University, Berlin, The University of Johannesburg (South Africa), Fudan University (China), The University of Yor (UK), Texas A&M University (USA) as well as was a Marie Curie senior fellow at European University Institute, Florence (Italy). Prof. Khomiakov’s current research project is focused upon imaginary of mastery over nature in history of Russian modernity in the context of global political and ecological transformations

Metehan Cömert is an assistant professor of Public Finance at the Faculty of Political Sciences, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University. He earned his Ph.D. with a dissertation entitled “Four Essays on Fundamental Issues of Public Finance: Fiscal Anthropology, the Gift, the Commons, and the Meci”. His research interests circle around fiscal anthropology, political economy, critical social theory and anti-capitalist movements. In recent years, his research has concentrated on the creation, expansion and multiplication of interstitial movements running from the particular to radically change the world. His approach seeks to introduce new perspectives, drawing from everyday practices to construct alternative paths to liberation. By posing existential and concrete questions to the public, he aims to transcend formulaic texts to constitute a theory of authentic praxis that resonates with the immediacy and urgency of contemporary issues.