Raya Nunez Mahdi is Indonesian, and grew up in Thailand, China, Indonesia,  Russia, the Netherlands and Germany. She studied Cultural Anthropology at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, and gained her B.A and M.A in Social and Medical Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. Raya trained international  managers in intercultural skills at the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam, lectured Intercultural Management, Organisational Behavior and Global Citizenship at Utrecht University of  Applied Sciences, and in recent times she delivered Intercultural Communication trainings at Universities in France, both at bachelor level and summer schools.

Carlos Nunez is Colombian. He has a B.Sc. (Bachelor of science) in Architecture and a M.Sc. (master of science) in Urban Planning from Delft University of Technology, specialising in Computer Modelling for Management Decision Making. Carlos developed team-introduction simulation games using cultural diversity as leverage for improved decision-making. He gave Pre-departure training to managers on international assignments, and he lectured Operations Management and International Business at Rotterdam Business School, Utrecht University of Applied Sciences and Universities in France.