Steffen Roth is a Professor of Management at the La Rochelle Business School (France) and a Professor as well as President of the Senate of Kazimieras Simonavicius University (Lithuania).

Steffen Roth earned his Diploma in Sociology from Chemnitz University of Technology in 2002, his PhD in Economics and Management (Dr. rer. pol) from the same university in 2010, and his PhD in Sociology from the University of Geneva in 2013. He is a social systems theorist who focus his research on theories and applications of functional differentiation in modern societies. Further fields of research include multifunctional organizations and markets, the digital transformation of social theory, and foresight and future studies.

Lars Clausen is a trained sociologist, teacher, designer of learning materials and consultant. He is a lecturer at the UCL University College in Denmark, a doctoral candidate at the Europa University in Flensburg, Germany and a research fellow at the Next Society Institute at Kazimieras Simonavicius University, Lithuania.

His current activities are design and implementation of large-scale interventions through potentialization of organizational capacity. Lars Clausen has published on a wide range of topics, such as educational policy, management theory, network organizations, elites and state formation and societal transformation in the wake of media revolutions.