Alex de Voogt is a professor at Drew University and specializes in the history and distribution of board games. He organized the first colloquium on Board Game Studies in 1995 that is still convening every year and is a founding editor of the journal Board Game Studies, first published in 1998. His current research is funded by COST Action 22145.

Lisa Rougetet is a professor in the history of science at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale and specializes in the history of mathematics and mathematical games. She has co-organized colloquia on Board Game Studies and belongs to the Core Group of the GameTable Action network.