Rubén C. Lois González is a vice president of the International Geographical Union (IGU) and a professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). He has specialized in urban and cultural geography and is a connoisseur of the geography of Brazil. He was a visiting professor at the Federal University of Bahia (Brazil) in 2017. He has conducted conferences and published in academic media in Salvador de Bahia, Fernando Pessoa, Recife, Fortaleza, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, among other places. Springer has published several books for which he was an editor and co-author.
Marco Mitidiero is the president of the Brazilian National Postgraduate Association in Geography (ANPEGE). He is a professor at the Federal University of Paraíba. He was trained at the University of São Paulo, where he defended his doctoral thesis. He is a specialist in agrarian geography and social movements and has held research positions at Spanish universities. At present, he coordinates numerous networks of exchange and scientific debate among Brazilian universities in the field of geography.