Aske Laursen Brock is Carlsberg Postdoctoral Fellow at Aalborg University, Denmark. His research focuses on the social origins of trading companies and early global capitalism.

Guido van Meersbergen is Assistant Professor of Early Modern Global History at the University of Warwick, UK. His research focuses on early modern diplomacy, travel, ethnography, and the Dutch and English East India Companies.

Edmond Smith is Presidential Fellow in Economic Cultures at the University of Manchester, UK. His work focuses on commercial communities and the institutions of early modern global trade.