Charlotta Faith-Ell holds a PhD in Land and Water Resources Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology and an MSc in Earth Sciences from Stockholm University. She is a recognized expert in the field of Impact Assessment and has more than twenty years' experience of working with project management and environmental management. She is also Director of Research at WSP Civils in Sweden.

Pille Metspalu is geographer and has been active in the field of spatial planning over 20 years. She is the leading regional and master planning consultant in Hendrikson & Ko Ltd, a lecturer of spatial planning in Tartu University. Her portfolio as a planning practitioner contains a large number of various planning projects, including Rail Baltic railway, marine spatial planning and more than 70 comprehensive plans for towns and rural municipalities. P. Metspalu has been active in developing planning methodology, she is the author of several planning guidelines. She is a member of the board of Estonian Association of Spatial Planners and Professional Planners’ Licensing Committee.