Dr Emma Björner is a researcher and expert sustainability consultant. She works for Enact Sustainable Strategies and is an associate researcher at Gothenburg Research Institute at the University of Gothenburg where her focus is sustainable tourism. She is also senior expert at the International Organisation for Knowledge and Enterprise Development, working primarily with China-related projects, and URBi NAT, a Horizon 2020 project centring on sustainable cities. She has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals, edited a book and wrote her Ph.D. dissertation on the branding of Chinese mega-cities.
Olof Zetterberg has worked for the City of Stockholm since 1981, including as the city's refugee coordinator. He served at various times as director of Stockholm's departments of recreation, culture and sport, city planning, traffic, real estate and parks. He chaired the development of Hammarby Sjöstad and, from 2007 to 2018, he was the CEO of Stockholm Business Region. Since 2007 he has been chairman of the Stockholm business incubator STING and is currently a board member of Start-Up Stockholm, a foundation that provides free advice to new businesses.