Sandra Dow is Professor Emeritus at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, USA. She holds a PhD in International Finance from Concordia University in Montreal. Professor Dow began developing an advanced corporate finance class in ESG Risk Assessment in 2010 at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. In the decade that followed the course evolved to its latest iteration as Corporate Finance in Climate Change. She has written extensively on corporate governance, in addition to research focusing directly on environmental and social risks. She reviews regularly for several finance and pedagogical journals and was the corporate finance/corporate governance subject editor for Research in International Business & Finance.

Yuwei Shi is a Visiting Professor in the Coastal Science & Policy Program and the Academic Director of the Blue Pioneers Accelerator Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. He is also Professor Emeritus at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, USA. He was the founding dean of Middlebury's Graduate School of International Policy and Management, and led the integration of its two predecessor schools in policy and business. He was also the founding director of the Frontier Market Scouts Program, an award-winning education program in social entrepreneurship and impact investing. Yuwei is an expert in competitive strategy, early-stage venture business model development and venture performance evaluation. He has published over three dozen papers in peer-reviewed journals and a number of books and book chapters. He is an award-winning teacher and researcher who has taught MBA and doctoral programs in nearly a dozen universities across the globe.