Karsten Jørgensen is Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Department of Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway, and holds a Dr.-Scient. degree from NMBU, 1989, in landscape architecture. He was Founding Editor of JoLA – the Journal of Landscape Architecture – 2006–2015. Karsten Jørgensen has published regularly in national and international journals and books. He edited the volume Mainstreaming Landscape through the European Landscape Convention (Routledge 2016) together with Tim Richardson, Kine Thoren and Morten Clemetsen.

Nilgül Karadeniz is Professor of Landscape Architecture at Ankara University, Turkey. Her teaching and research interest focusses on participatory landscape planning and recently on landscape biography. She has been an editorial board member of SCI-expanded journals. She was Secretary General (2006–2009) and Vice President (2009–2012) of ECLAS. She is founding member of LE:NOTRE Institute and, since January 2016, she has been the chair of the Institute.

Elke Mertens is Professor of Garden Architecture and Landscape Maintenance at the Hochschule Neubrandenburg – University of Applied Sciences, Germany. She holds a Dr.-Ing. degree from the Technical University in Berlin (1997). She is Co-Chair of the German Hochschulkonferenz Landschaft (HKL), member of the board of LE:NOTRE Institute and has been active in the LE:NOTRE Thematic Network as well as in ECLAS as member of the executive boards.

Richard Stiles is Professor of Landscape Architecture in the Faculty of Architecture and Planning at Vienna University of Technology, Austria, having studied biology and landscape design at the Universities of Oxford and Newcastle upon Tyne and having previously taught at Manchester University in the UK. His teaching and research interests focus on strategic landscape planning and design in urban areas. He is a past President of the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools and was Coordinator of the European Union co-funded LE:NOTRE Thematic Network in Landscape Architecture for 11 years, during which time he was closely involved in preparing recommendations for landscape architecture education.