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Henk Manschot, a member of the University for Humanist Studies faculty, is co-founder and Director of Kosmopolis, the Humanist Institute for Global Ethics and World Citizenship of the University for Humanistics in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Kosmopolis is dedicated to engaging in interdisciplinary research, teaching, training and networking and seeks to link questions of personal meaning and spirituality with social and political issues of human and sustainable development worldwide. His current research focuses on interconnections between human and sustainable development and on cosmo-political education. He is Vice-Chairman/Secretary of the Asia-Europe Foundation CEDESD and Head of the sector Dialogues, Leadership and Values. He is also Chairman of the Encounter of World Views Foundation. Manschot is a Graduate of the Sorbonne University in Paris, and he received his PhD from the Department of Philosophy of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.

Caroline Šuranský is on faculty at the University for Humanist Studies (Utrecht). She studied philosophy of education at the University of Utrecht and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In 1998 she was awarded a grant to study the historical and political education ties between the Netherlands and South Africa at the University of Durban-Westville in South Africa. She worked from 1988 to 1998 at the same university as a lecturer in Curriculum Studies and coordinator of the Master’s program in “Teacher Education.” She is a Fellow of Cosmopolis (Humanist Institute for Global Ethics and World Citizenship) and co-founder and co-coordinator of the annual Summer School on Human Development and Human Rights, an initiative in collaboration with the Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation (HIVOS).