Ms Grandits is a founding member of the Austrian Green Party and the women's coalition in the Austrian Parliament. She was a Member of the Austrian Parliament between 1990 and 1994. Throughout the 1990s, she was active in projects related to reconciliation and democratisation in the former Yugoslavia. She is also a leading voice in the Verona Forum - a group of intellectuals working toward peace and reconciliation in South Eastern Europe - and has been active in the Boltzmann Institute for Human Rights and other leading Austrian NGOs. She has been a member of the Human Rights Commission of the Austrian Ministry of Interior since 2000. Ms. Grandits is a regular lecturer at the European Masters Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation. She holds a Masters degree in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University in Bologna.

Ms. Boati held several humanitarian, human rights and development posts in the Western Balkans, working among others for the World Bank and the Italian Embassy (Technical Cooperation Unit). Her work focused on institutional capacity-building, governance, post-conflict reconstruction and development. She studied international relations and diplomacy, and holds a M.Sc. degree in Humanitarian Assistance (University La Sapienza of Rome), and a M.A. in Advanced European Political and Administrative Studies (College of Europe, Bruges). She is currently completing her PhD on the sociological aspects of trans-border policies at the University of Trieste.

Srdjan Cvijic is an expert in the area of democratisation, public and international law and political analysis. As a freelance political analyst specialising in the area of South East Europe, he published numerous articles for Italian, Hungarian, Serbian and Russian foreign policy reviews. He also worked for NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Brussels, where he was in charge of writing policy briefs, organising parliamentary diplomacy seminars related to the area of the Western Balkans. Mr Cvijic holds an undergraduate degree in Law from the University of Belgrade (Serbia), a M.A. in International Relations and European Studies from the Central European University (Budapest, Hungary) and a PhD from the Law Department of the European University Institute in Florence (Italy). Mr. Cvijic has published several academic articles and has held guest lectures at the Bologna University and Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies in Florence.