Jonathan Simon is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Université de Montréal (UdeM) and the co-founder of the LFC. He is an affiliate of the Centre de Recherche en Ethique (CRE), the Groupe de Recherche Interuniversitaire sur la Normativité (GRIN), the NYU Global Institute for Advanced Study Project on Space, Time and Consciousness, and the Canadian Metaphysics Collaborative. His research is in the philosophy of consciousness, artificial intelligence, the metaphysics of science, applied ontology, moral psychology, value theory, and legal and political philosophy.
Heather Alexander is a human rights lawyer and expert on nationality law, citizenship, statelessness and human rights and a member of CRÉ, the Centre de Recherche en Ethique. She is the co-founder of the LFC and currently serves as Research and Policy Lead. Her comment, The United Nations and Robot Rights, was published in the Canadian Journal of Law and Technology in 2023. She has a PhD in law and ten years of experience as a lawyer, researcher and consultant for the UN, the US State Department and various universities, including Carleton University, the University of Melbourne and the European University Institute. She has been an asylum and human rights attorney and researcher with UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, in Chad, Sri Lanka, Kosovo and Côte d’Ivoire. She was the co-founder of United Stateless, an advocacy group on citizenship rights in the United States, and a former board member of the Canadian Centre on Statelessness.