Chris Brewster  is Professor of International Human Resource Management at Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK; Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; the University of Vaasa, Finland; and ISCTE- Instituto Universitário de Lisboa , Lisbon, Portugal. He has substantial experience as a practitioner and gained his doctorate from the LSE before becoming an academic. Chris researches in the field of international and comparative HRM, and has published more than thirty books as editor or author and over two hundred articles. In 2006 Chris was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Vaasa, Finland.

Jean-Luc Cerdin  is Professor of Human Resource Management at ESSEC Business School in France. He gained a doctorate from Toulouse University and an MSc from the LSE. He worked as a practitioner in Human Resource Management before becoming an academic. He has served as Visiting Professor at Rutgers University and University of Missouri St-Louis, and as Visiting Scholar at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA. He researches, publishes and consults in three primary areas: International Human Resource Management; Expatriation Management; and Career Management.