Dr Mika Aaltola is Director of the Center for US Politics and Power at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs and Professor of International Relations at Tallinn University. His previous monographs include Sowing the Seeds of Sacred: Political Religion of American Era (Brill 2008), Western Spectacles of Governance and the Emergence of Humanitarian World Order (Palgrave 2009), and Understading the Politics of Pandemic Scares (Routledge 2012). His current research focuses on understanding the impact of global flows on global order and power. Juha Käpylä currently works as a research fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. His previous academic research has focused on the consequences of American pragmatism for the study and practice of International Relations. He has also been an expert in the Multinational Experimentation process (MNE7), with a particular focus on the understanding of the inter-domain nature of the Global Commons in the context of future crisis management. Dr Valtteri Vuorisalo has a wide range of experience from the defense-sector, including multinational military operations, the private sector and academia. His previous research examined the methodology and process of international military crisis management capability development and its implications and benefits in national contexts.

Currently, Dr Vuorisalo devotes his energy to developing new defense capabilities in the private sector.