Leonor Freire Costa is Professor in Economic History at the ISEG, University of Lisbon. She has published articles on Portugal's economic and financial history in the early modern period. Together with Pedro Lains and Susana Miranda she authored An Economic History of Portugal (2016).

Regina Grafe is Professor of Early Modern History at the European University Institute in Florence. She is a global economic and social historian who has published widely on the political economy of Spain and the Spanish Empire including Distant Tyranny: Markets, Power and Backwardness in Spain, 1650-1800 (2012).

Alfonso Herranz-Loncán is Professor of Economic History at the University of Barcelona. He has published articles on the history of transport, infrastructure, public policies, market integration and economic growth in Spain and Latin America during the 19th and 20th centuries.

David Igual-Luis is Professor in Medieval History at the University of Castilla-La Mancha. He is a specialist on Social and Economic History. His previous publications include his collaborations in the collective volumes The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade around Europe, 1300-1600 (2017), Social Mobility in Medieval Italy, 1100-1500 (2018) and Faire son marché au Moyen Âge. Méditerranée occidentale, XIIIe-XVIe siècle (2018).

Vicente Pinilla is Professor in Economic History at the University of Zaragoza and researcher at the Instituto Agroalimentario de Aragon. His previous publications include Wine Globalization (2018), Agricultural Development in the World Periphery: A Global Economic History Approach (2018) and Natural Resources and Economic Growth: Learning from History (2015).

Hermínia Vasconcelos Vilar is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Évora. She is author of articles and book chapters on political and economic structures, social mobility and political legitimation in the Iberian kingdoms of the late middle ages.