Manuel Perez Garcia is tenured Associate Professor at the Department of History, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He obtained his PhD at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). He has been awarded with an ERC (European Research Council)-Starting Grant, Horizon 2020 to conduct the GECEM project - 679371 (Global Encounters between China and Europe) www.gecem.eu.

He is founder and director of the Global History Network (GHN) in China www.globalhistorynetwork.com, Distinguished Professor by the University Pablo de Olavide (Seville, Spain), European host institution of GECEM. He was research fellow at UCBerkeley, Tsinghua University (Beijing, China) in 2011, and visiting professor at UNAM (Mexico) and University of Macerata (Italy). Among his publications stands out Vicarious Consumers, published in 2013.

Lucio De Sousa is Associate Professor at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Japan).

He obtained in Ph.D. course in Asian Studies at University of Oporto (Oporto, Portugal). He is member of the steering committee of Global History Network. He was a Post Doctoral Fellow at European University Institute (Florence, Italy); and Research Associate at Historiographical Institute (史料編纂所), University of Tokyo, Department of Foreign Materials. He was a book winner by the Macao Foundation, the Social Science in China Press and the GuangDong Social Sciences Association (2013).

His primary field of research is the slave trade and Jewish Diaspora in Asia in the Early Modern Period.