• Livia Madureira, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (Portugal), president of the international scientific committee of the 27th ESEE

• Alex Koutsouris, Agricultural University of Athens (Greece)

• Andrea Knierim, University of Hohenheim (Germany)

• Artur Cristóvão, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (Portugal)

• Ataharul Chowdhury, University of Guelph (Canada)

• David Rose, Harper Adams University (UK)

• Esmail Karamidehkordi, Tarbiat Modares University (Iran)

• Fernando Landini, National Scientific and Technical Research Council; University of La Cuenca del Plata, Argentina (Argentina)

• Hanna Tamsalu, Centre of Estonian Rural Research and Knowledge, METK (Estonia)

• Hycenth Tim Ndah, University of Hohenheim (Germany)

• Jorie Knook, Lincoln University (New Zealand)

• Laurens Klerkx, University of Talca (Chile); Wageningen University (Netherlands)

• Lisa Blix Germundsson, SLU Competence Center for Advisory Services (Sweden)

• Maria do Mar Perez, University of Santiago Compostela (Spain)

• Mark Moore, Teagasc (Ireland)

• Micheline Marie-Sainte, ENSFEA (France)

• Otavio Balsadi, EMBRAPA (Brazil)

• Patricia Fry, Bern University of Applied Sciences (Switzerland)

• Patrizia Proietti, CREA (Italy)

• Peter Paree, ZLTO (Netherlands)

• Pierre Labarthe, INRAE (France)

• Simona Cristiano, CREA (Italy)

• Teresa Pinto Correia, University of Évora, MED (Portugal)

• Tomás Russell, University College Dublin (Ireland)