Professor Walter Leal (BSc, PhD, DSc, DPhil, DL, DLitt, DEd) is a Senior Professor and Head of the Research and Transfer Centre "Applications of Life Sciences" at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany and at London Metropolitan University Business School.
Richard Kotter is an economic and political geographer with a natural/environmental science and environmental management background, and publishes and reviews academically in the areas of transport geography, environmental transformations, and economic development and innovation.
He also teaches in these fields at undergraduate and post-graduate level, including to engineers, at Northumbria university, as well as a guest lecturer elsewhere in Europe.