Ezgi Orhan is a faculty member at Çankaya University. She graduated from the City and Regional Planning Department of Middle East Technical University (METU) in 2007 and took her Ph.D. in the discipline in 2012. She completed her doctorate thesis, funded by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, on the post-disaster recovery processes and location choices of businesses. She has been working as an associate professor in city planning since 2018. She worked in academic positions at METU, Pamukkale University, and Çankaya University and conducted international and national research projects as a consultant, manager, and researcher. She is affiliated as a resilience fellow at the 4TU Centre for Resilience Engineering, Netherlands, and a member of Earthquake Engineering Research Institute. She has published articles on disaster management, business geography, and risk reduction policies in internationally recognized journals.

Ela Ataç Kavurmacı was born in Bursa. Completed high school at Bursa Milli Piyango Anatolian High School in 2001. Received Bachelor degree (graduated with honor) in City and Regional Planning from Gazi University Faculty of Architecture Department of City and Regional Planning in 2005. She recevied Master's degree from the same department in 2008, and Ph.D degree from Middle East Technical University Department of City and Regional Planning in 2014. From 2005 to 2015 she worked as research assistant in Gazi University Department of City and Regional Planning. Her main research areas are urban geography, population geography, urban sociology, residential segregation, and qualitative and quantitative methods in social sciences. Ataç Kavurmacı has various publications in the international and national journals on the subjects of spatial distribution of socio-economic status groups in Turkish cities, residential segregation, poverty, and inequality. She has been working at TED University Department of City and Regional Planning since April, 2016.