Prof. Dr. Andrea Ott is Professor of EU External Relations Law at the Law Faculty of Maastricht University. Since 2011 she holds a Jean Monnet Chair in EU law. She has wide experience in legal consultancy for Dutch ministries and the European Commission in Central and Eastern Europe and teaches regularly on EU institutional law, EU external relations, enlargement and WTO law in the Netherlands, Central and Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia and China. Since 1999, she is a visiting guest professor for International Economic Law at the M.A. European Studies of the Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand and since 2005 teaches a Jean Monnet Module on EU External Relations at Maastricht University. Andrea is IUS Commune programme coordinator of the research programme 'Integration, Differentiation and Flexibility: New Perspectives on EU Law and Policy'.  Andrea is a scholar of the Maastricht Centre for European Law and a member of the Ius Commune Research School. She is member of the editorial committee of Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law and Member of the board of CLEER (Centre of EU External relations law).

Dr. Giselle Bosse is Associate Professor and Jean Monnet Chair at Maastricht University's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and she also serves as a Fellow at the European Democracy Hub in Brussels. Her research focuses on EU external relations, particularly the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) and Eastern Partnership (EaP), with a strong focus on the EU’s efforts to support democracy in autocratic regimes like Belarus and on the enlargement process involving Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia. She is the co-director of the Centre for European Research in Maastricht (CERiM) and coordinates the national research colloquium on geopolitics and democratic reform in Central and Eastern Europe. She also holds visiting professorships at the College of Europe and the Diplomatic School of Armenia.

She has been awarded several prestigious research grants, including an NWO VENI grant for her work on EU democracy promotion and an ASPASIA grant for her research on non-state actors in EU foreign policy, and leads work packages in two EU Horizon-funded projects (EMBRACE and INVIGORATE). Her insights are regularly featured in media outlets such as Euronews, Deutsche Welle, and NPO1. She was awarded her Ph.D. from Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom.