Joachim Müller is the Director for Management and Finance at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Vienna. He was previously with the UN system for 30 years, as Director for Resource Management at the Word Meteorological Organization (WMO), Geneva, Controller at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Geneva, at the UN Secretariat, New York, and at the UN Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Vienna. He has
also written several prominent books on UN matters, including the multi-volume work Reforming the United Nations.
Karl P. Sauvant is Resident Senior Fellow at the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment, Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School, and Guest Professor at Nankai University, China. Before that, he was Director of UNCTAD's Investment Division. He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business and an Honorary Fellow of the European International Business Academy.