*Timothy Cheek (Canada, Vancouver, Professor at the Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia, author of several publications related to Mao Zedong)
Contribution: Analysis of the official PRC Mao biography under the responsible editor Jin Chongji

*Wilhelm Hemecker (Austria, Professor for the History and Theory of Biography, University of Vienna)
Contribution: The theory of biography from a European historical perspective

*Jin Chongji (PRC, Beijing, main responsible author of the official PRC Mao biography)
Contribution: Writing the biography of Mao Zedong. (In Chinese with translation)

*Alexander A. Pantsov (Russia/ USA, Capital University, Columbus, Ohio, main author of a recent, very well received Mao biography, main author of a biograph in the making of Deng Xiaoping)
Contribution: Writing “Mao: The real story”

*Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer (Germany, Professor of Sinology at the University of Göttingen, author of a German language biography to be published in 2016)
Contribution: The Biography of an activist striving for a better world: The Case of Mao

*Sylvia Salino, UK, London, Phd student at the University of Vienna writing her thesis on Jiang Qing biography from a meta-biographical perspective)
Contribution: What do we learn about Mao from Jiang Qing biographies? Looking at Jiang Qing biographies from a meta-biographical and mythobiographical perspective

*Shen Weiwei (PRC, Professor of Chinese Literature at Nanjing University, author of several biographies and specialist in theory of biography)
Contribution: Some new thoughts on writing biography with and on Gao Xingjian (in Chinese)

*Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik (Austria, Professor of Chinese Studies, University of Vienna)
Contribution: What do we miss in existing Mao biographies?

*Felix Wemheuer (Germany, Professor of Chinese Studies, University of Cologne, author of a German language Mao biography)
Contribution: The Challenge of How to Evaluate the Mao Era

*Sascha Klotzbücher (Germany, Guest Professor of Chinese Studies, University of Vienna)
Contribution: 

*Carsten Schäfer (Austria, PhD student, University of Vienna)
Contribution: The persona of Mao in contemporary Chinese film

*Xiao Se (Germany/ PRC, freelance author living in Heidelberg, PhD student at the University of Vienna, specialist of 20th century Chinese literature)
Contribution: Mao’s interest in the southern and the northern tradition of Chinese literature (in Chinese)

*Yu Renhan (Australia/ PRC, free lance writer living in Sydney, specialist of Mao Zedong’s poems)
Contribution: Mao’s poems and his inner life as well as political achievements (in Chinese)

*Zhang Haipeng (PRC, Beijing, former President of the Association of Chinese Historians, Committee Member of the Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
Contribution: Re-visiting Mao Zedong in the 21st century (in Chinese) 

*Zhao Baisheng (PRC, Professor at Peking University, specialist on comparative biography) 
Contribution: Theorizing the 20th century Chinese political leaders‘ biography