Nico Wouters is Director of the Centre for War and Contemporary Society (State Archives Belgium) and Guest Lecturer at the University of Ghent, Belgium. He is the co-editor of The Handbook of State Sponsored History after 1945 (2018), the author of Mayoral Collaboration under Nazi Occupation in Belgium, the Netherlands and France, 1938-46 (2016) and the editor of Transitional Justice and Memory in Europe (1945–2013) (2014). He is also Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Belgian History.
Laurence van Ypersele is Professor of Contemporary History at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. She is also a board member on the international research committee of the Historial de la Grande Guerre of Péronne, France. She is the author and co-author of several French-language books in the area of war and memory.