Jim Igoe is Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado at Denver, USA. He works on the politics and impacts of NGOs and his current work examines the destruction and reconstruction of New Orleans.
Dan Brockington is Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester University, UK. He studies the impacts and extent of eviction for conservation, the politics of community-based natural resource management and the role of celebrity in empowering conservation.