Jonathan Simon is the founder of the Center for the Future of Citizenship. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Université de Montréal (UdeM) and 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 lawyer and expert on nationality law, citizenship, statelessness and human rights. She is the Research and Policy Lead the Center for the Future of Citizenship. 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 researcher and consultant for the UN, the US State Department and various universities. She has been a pro bono asylum attorney, 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.