Muneta Yokomatsu is an associate professor of the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University, and a guest research scholar with the Risk and Resilience (RISK) program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). He is a treasurer of the Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRiM) Society, and an editor in chief of the Journal of Natural Disaster Science (JNDS). 

Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler is a senior research scholar with the Risk and Resilience (RISK) program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), and leader of the Risk Analysis and Modeling Group. A member of the Board of Directors of the Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRiM) Society and the Board of Directors of the Global Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes (GADRI), he is also a lecturer at the University of Vienna, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and the Graduate School at the Institute for Advanced Study in Pavia.