Lutz Marten is Professor of General and African Linguistics at SOAS University of London. His work focusses on the study of language in its structural, historical and social aspects, with particular reference to the languages and cultures of Eastern and Southern Africa. He has conducted descriptive, theoretical and comparative studies with respect to different African languages in Kenya, Tanzania, Namibia and Zambia. He is currently involved in collaborative research projects on the study of variation in Swahili, on the description and promotion of the Kenyan Bantu language Kitaveta, and on the cultural translation of Covid-19 in London's community languages. He is a member of the Academia Europaea and currently serves as the president of the Philological Society. Nana Sato-Rossberg is Professor of Translation Studies. She is a leading scholar in the field, with expertise in Japan and East Asia. She is currently Chair of the Centre for Translation Studies of SOAS.

She is also an Executive Council member of International Association of Translation and Intercultural Studies and the co-founder of the East Asian Translation Studies conference series (since 2014). She is author of two monographs and five co-edited books in relation to Japan and East Asian Translation Studies. She has worked extensively on Japanese ethnic minority community and the translation of their cultures. She was PI of the UKRI/AHRC funded Covid-19 project Cultural translation and interpreting of Covid-19 risks among London's migrant communities.