Hans-Georg Heinrich is Professor emeritus at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna, and Vice-President of the International Center for Advanced and Comparative EU-Russia/NIS Research (ICEUR Vienna). He has authored and edited several books on Post-Soviet politics and served in field presences of international organizations in various transition countries. Ludmilla Lobova is an ethnologist and political scientist with a focus on Post-Soviet research.
She is Scientific Director of ICEUR Vienna. Aydar Amrebaev and Valikhan Tuleshov are senior researchers in the Institute of World Economy and Politics in Almaty, Kazakhstan.