Andrew Linzey is director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and has been a member of the Faculty of Theology in the University of Oxford for twenty-eight years. He is a visiting professor of animal theology at the University of Winchester. He is the author or editor of more than thirty books, including Animal Theology (1994), Why Animal Suffering Matters (OUP, 2009), and The Palgrave Handbook of Practical Animal Ethics (2018).

Clair Linzey is the deputy director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and professor of animal theology at the Graduate Theological Foundation. She is co-editor of the Journal of Animal Ethics and co-editor of the Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series. She is the author of Developing Animal Theology (2021) and has co-edited eight other books with Andrew Linzey.