Llyod George Adu Amoah is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science and simultaneously founding Director of the newly established Centre for Asian Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon, as well as Acting Director of the Centre for European Studies. He has taught at Ashesi University as an Assistant Professor for almost a decade before moving to the University of Ghana.

Cornelia Knab is scientific manager of the Institute for European Global Studies and research associate in European and global history. After her MA studies in modern history and musicology at the Universities of Heidelberg and Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), she earned her PhD in Modern History at Heidelberg University on the history of international cooperation to contain contagious animal diseases. Her research interests include European and global history, methodologies and theories of global history and of European Global Studies, the history of internationalism and international organization as well as the history of epidemics, epizootics, veterinary medicine and agricultural internationalism.

Maximilian Mayer is Junior-Professor of International Relations and Global Politics of Technology at University of Bonn. He was assistant professor at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, research fellow at Renmin University Beijing, research professor at Tongji University, Shanghai and senior researcher at the Munich Center for Technology in Society, Technical University Munich. He worked at the Bonn University’s Center for Global Studies (CGS) as managing assistant and senior fellow, holds an MA from Ruhr University Bochum and obtained his PhD at Bonn University. His research interests include the global politics of science, innovation, and technology; China’s foreign and energy policy; global energy and climate politics; theories of International Relations. His publications include China’s Energy Thirst: Myth or Reality? (2007 together with Xuewu Gu), Changing orders: transdiciplinary analysis of global and local realities (2008, co-editer), two-volumes on The Global Politics of Science and Technology (2014, lead editor).

Corey Ross is Direoctor of the Institute for European Global Studies and Professor for European Global Studies. His expertise focuses on the history of imperialism and global environmental history in the 19th and 20th centuries. His research on the socio-environmental history of Europe’s relations with the rest of the world builds on interdisciplinarity, investigates the global, transimperial and transnational circulation of ideas, goods and people, and aims to highlight perspectives that are relevant to major present-day and future challenges.

Christa Tobler is professor of European Law at the Institute for European Global Studies and at the Europa Institute of the University of Leiden (Netherlands). She obtainted her PhD in law at the University of Zurich. She has two research specialisations: 1) legal equality and discrimination in both economic and social law, and 2) the special legal relationship between the EU and Switzerland. At the Institute for European Global Studies, she leads a research project funded by the SNFS on Age Discrimination in Employment Law and Social Security Law. She appears regularly in the media in Switzerland and abroad as an expert in the field of European law.