Filip De Beule is Associate Professor of International Business at the Department of Management, Strategy and Innovation at the Faculty of Economics and Business at KU Leuven University. His main research interests focus on grand challenges and the interlink between international business and policy and include topics on the international location and organization of firms.

Philippe De Lombaerde is Director at the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS) (Bruges, Belgium), and Associate Professor of International Economics at Neoma Business School (Rouen, France). His research interests include international trade, regional economic integration, comparative regionalism, and globalization and regionalization indicators.

Haiyan Zhang is Associate Professor of International Business at the Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at NEOMA Business School (France). His research interests include international business activities of Chinese and overseas Chinese-owned enterprises, management issues of international joint ventures in transition economies, Chinese outward FDI in Europe, EU-China FDI relations, and related issues.