Prof. Dr., Marie-Theres Albert, Professor Emerita and Former Chairholder Chair Intercultural Studies UNESCO Chair in Heritage Studies, studied and completed her doctorate and habilitation at the Technical University of Berlin in educational science, sociology and educational economics. From 1994 to 2015 she led the Chair Intercultural Studies at BTU Cottbus and has been the chair holder of the UNITWIN/UNESCO Chair in Heritage Studies since October 2003. She is the co-founder and former director (1999-2010) of the masters programme “World Heritage Studies” and founder and director (since 2010) of the Ph.D. programme “International Graduate School: Heritage Studies at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg”. In this context, she has, since 2010, positioned Heritage Studies paradigmatically in the interest of human development and has developed it progressively into its own discipline with a sophisticated interdisciplinary approach. She initiated the series “Heritage Studies” to support the process of scientific development discursively. Prof. Dr. Albert is co-editor and also a member of the editorial advisory board for this publication.Francesco Bandarin, is the UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Culture. He is Professor of Urban Planning and Conservation at the University IUAV of Venice (currently on leave). From 2000 to 2011 he was Director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and Secretary of the World Heritage Convention. He is President of the Italian Association of the Historic Cities (ANCSA), member of the Visiting Committee of the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles and member of the Steering Committee of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. His recent publications include: *The Historic Urban Landscape: Managing Heritage in an Urban Century*, 2012 and *Reconnecting the City*. *The Historic Urban Landscape Approach and the Future of Urban Heritage*, 2015, both co-authored with Ron van Oers and published by Wiley-Blackwell. Dr., Ana Pereira Roders, is Associate Professor in Heritage and Sustainability at Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. She has wide range of work experience abroad and interdisciplinary cooperation. Her research and scholarship addresses historic urban landscapes and their resource efficiency, spanning the fields of architecture, urban planning, law, environmental management and computer sciences. She is particularly interested in urbanization processes to define the use and conservation of urban resources, in relation to heritage-designations. Ana Pereira Roders is the founding co-editor of the Journal Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development, Emerald. She presented in 2015 at TEDxHamburg “How cities become resource efficient”. Dr. Pereira Roders is co-editor and also a member of the editorial advisory board for this publication.
