Bo Rothstein holds the August Röhss Chair in Political Science at University of Gothenburg and is the co-founder of the Quality of Government (QoG) Institute in the Department of Political Science. During 2016 and 2017 he served as Professor of Government and Public Policy at University of Oxford, Nuffield College. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, Collegium Budapest for Advanced Study, Harvard University, University of Washington-Seattle, Cornell University, the Australian National University and Stanford University. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Finnish Society of Arts and Letters. Among his publications are Controlling Corruption - The Social Contract Approach (Oxford University Press, 2021), Making Sense of Corruption (with Aiysha Varraich, Cambridge University Press 2017), The Quality of Government: Corruption (University of Chicago Press 2011), Social Traps and the Problem of Trust (Cambridge University Press 2005) and Just Institutions Matter (Cambridge University Press 1998). He is planning to work on a project that links economic inequality with the organization of the power structure within firms. The project will combine organizational theory, economic sociology and political economy to develop a realistic model that will serve to decrease economic inequality and increase democracy in the workplace.

Iiris Saittakari is an Assistant Professor at Aalto University School of Business in Finland. She defended her doctoral dissertation entitled The location of headquarters: why, when and where are regional mandates located? in May 2018. Her research interests include the location and relocation of headquarters, the meaning of location, the politization of multinational corporations, and the associated policy implications. She is currently working on a research project that aims to understand the multifaceted meaning of location including both physical and perceptual aspects. This Academy of Finland and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation funded project focuses on the location of multinational corporations’ headquarters due to their importance for businesses and societies alike. Various types of headquarters employ high-skilled employees, bring tax revenue, and attract further investments to a location, making potential host locations compete for them. Furthermore, multinational corporations are powerful politicized institutions that are not afraid to use their bargaining power during the location negotiation processes. At the same time, they have become targets for political campaigns mobilized against their location decisions. In her research, Saittakari thus not only focuses on the physical aspects but also the political, social and emotional dimensions associated with location.