Margarida Gonçalves Novo is a lawyer-linguist (English and French into Portuguese), holds a degree in Law from the Catholic University of Lisbon and a Master in International Business Law from the University of Paris X. In addition, she holds a Diplôme Supérieur d'Etudes Françaises Modernes from the Alliance Française, a Diplôme Supérieur de Français des Affaires from the Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de Paris and a Diplôme d'Etudes de Civilisation Française – option économique from the Sorbonne (Paris I), as well as a Certificate of Proficiency in English from the University of Cambridge.

She worked at KPMG as a tax consultant; at ABN AMRO Bank as a Senior Client Manager and Head of the Structured Finance Unit; and at Banco Cisf de Investimento as Deputy Director of the Project Finance Unit. She has attended various training courses in the legal and financial fields. She has worked as an external lawyer-linguist for the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Central Bank.

Brian Knight is the English proofreader. He holds a BA in Hispanic and Latin American Studies from the University of Bristol, a Diploma in Teaching English to Adults from the Cambridge University and an MA in Teaching English as a Foreign Language from the University of Reading. He lived and worked in Portugal for 8 years as an English teacher at Cambridge School and then at the British Council, where he also worked as Coordinator of Special Courses (Business English). Since then he has lived and worked in various countries as an expatriate.

Valérie Maris is a Portuguese-to-French translator. She holds a degree in English-German Translation from the School of International Interpreters, University of Mons, a Diploma in Portuguese Language and Culture from the University of Lisbon and a Diploma in French-Portuguese Translation, also from the University of Lisbon. She also holds a bilingual MBA (English-French) from the Institut Supérieur des Affaires de Paris, with an exchange programme at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas in São Paulo, as well as a Certificate of Pedagogical Aptitude for Higher Education from the University of Liège. She is an accredited translator with the Belgian courts (English, Portuguese, German and Italian) and a professor of Technical Translation (economic, legal and political) at the University of Liège. She worked for 8 years in Portuguese-speaking countries, namely Portugal and Brazil. She taught Portuguese as a foreign language for 8 years at the University of Mons.