Christiaan van Bochove is associate professor of economic and social history and specializes in the financial history of the (early) modern period. His research focuses on how financial markets functioned where people did not have access to modern banks. What arrangements did people make use of then? Why exactly those? And to what should differences in time and space be attributed? Christiaan has published in journals such as The Journal of Economic History, The Economic History Review and European Review of Economic History.

Marten Boon is a lecturer in the History of International Relations at Utrecht University. His research focuses on corporate history and transnational aspects of the energy sector in the 20^th and 21^st centuries, with special attention to the oil and gas industry and the historical and contemporary sustainability issues surrounding energy supply. His most recent book is a commissioned study of the recent history of the Norwegian oil and gas group Equinor, National Champion. Statoil and Equinor since 2001. In zijn meest recente onderzoeksproject onderzoekt hij de rol van transnationale bedrijfsbelangen organisaties in de mondiale milieupolitiek tussen de jaren 1970 en 1990.

Bram Bouwens is a researcher in the Department of History and Art History at Utrecht University. He has conducted commissioned research on large Dutch companies such as Boskalis, Heineken, Tata Steel, and interest groups such as the Association of Dutch Paper and Board Factories and Koninklijke Metaalunie. His particular interest focuses on forms of cooperation in business, from interest groups to cartels to mergers and acquisitions.

Joost Dankers has been responsible for the acquisition and execution of commissioned research projects as contract research coordinator since 1993. In that position he was involved in researching numerous Dutch companies such as Hagemeyer, VNU, NAM, Royal Shell, Heineken, Boskalis and KLM. He himself researched the history of Hoogovens, Rabobank Netherlands, Vereenigde Glasfabrieken and the savings banks in the Netherlands, among others. He also co-initiated the seven-volume series Bedrijfsleven in Nederland in de twintigste eeuw, in which he co-wrote the volume on concentration and competition with Bram Bouwens. His interests focus particularly on financial history, Dutch business in the colonies and sustainability.

Claudia Hacke is a PhD candidate in the Economic and Social History research group at Utrecht University. Her research focuses on women’s (in)formal positions and influence in Dutch family firms (1870-1970), in order to assess the opportunities these women had or created thanks to and in the context of work and family. In this way, her research aims to contribute to a more complete image of historical entrepreneurship, and nuance the existing ideal of the male entrepreneur. This project is part of the SCOOP research programme. She is supervised by Dr. Selin Dilli (UU), Prof. Dr. Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk (UU), and Prof. Dr. Ir. Tanja van der Lippe (UU).

Joep Schenk is assistant professor in the history of international relations at Utrecht University. He worked as a post-doctoral fellow within an ERC-funded project on the making of a security culture in Europe in the nineteenth century and is currently teaching and researching the history of environmental security. He is specifically interested in the emerging role of scientific experts in environmental regime building during the nineteenth century; a century that was increasingly characterised by nationalism and rivalry.

Chris Vlam is a PhD candidate in the Economic and Social History research group at Utrecht University. Her research focuses on the role of associative organisations in the fields of public housing and public health in relation to economic development, policy-making and social welfare in the Netherlands in the 19^th and 20^th centuries. Specifically, she investigates the political and social contributions of (interest) associations in these sectors (such as the Nationale Woningraad and the National Cross Associations, and their member associations). This project is part of the research programme SCOOP. She is supervised by Prof. Bas van Bavel (UU), Dr. Selin Dilli (UU), and Prof. Rafael Wittek (RUG).