Cemal Baş graduated from the Department of Financial Management at La Trobe University in Australia. He worked as a Financial Researcher at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and the Securities Industry Research Center of Asia Pacific (SIRCA). After the 2008 global financial crisis, he prepared the "Islamic Financial Instruments and Securities Analysis" report for the Australian Ministry of Finance. He continued his doctoral studies on "Spatial Economy in Future Cities" at Ankara University. He started working in the Union of Municipalities of Türkiye in 2011. In 2014, he was appointed as the Secretary of the Turkish Delegation to Council of Europe Congress. In 2017, he was elected as a member of the Financial Committee of the United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) World Organization. In 2018, he was the lead-author of the Middle East and West Asia section of the 5th series of the UCLG-GOLD report which is the world's most comprehensive local government report. He was elected as the Councillor of Keçiören Municipality in the 2019 local elections. Currently, he is the Vice President of the Turkish National Delegation of the Council of Europe's Congress of Local and Regional Authorities; Congress Thematic Spokesperson on Environment and Climate Change; Political Committee Member of the Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR); member of the European Young Local Politicians Commission of the CEMR; Local Finance Policy Councillor at the UCLG and a member of the Working Group on Türkiye of the European Committee of Regions.

Željko Vukša-Fejzić is a youth delegate to the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe, from Bosnia and Herzegovina, who was born in post-war Sarajevo. He is a youth rights advocate with a background in law, as well as in policy development and politics. During his studies, he served in The European Law Students’ Association (ELSA) as the Vice President of the Sarajevo office, and as the Secretary General at the national level. Additionally, he served as the Chair of the Youth Council of the Centre municipality (Sarajevo), as speaker of the Youth council of Canton of Sarajevo and as Delegate to the Youth council of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Currently, he is President of the SDA Youth association and of the Ideological and Internal Affairs Commissions of the Youth of the European People’s Party (YEPP). He is engaged in international organisations such as the Advisory Board of Generation Democracy of the International Republican Institute (IRI) and the G9 initiative of the the National Democratic Institute (NDI). Recently, he was appointed to the appeals commission of the City of Sarajevo and to the Youth Commission of the House of Representatives in the Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Véronique Bertholle is originally from Dijon. She studied at the Grenoble Institute of Political Studies from 1997 to 2001. From 2001 to 2002, she spent a year living and working in Berlin, as part of an exchange program between the French National Assembly and the Bundestag, as a parliamentary assistant to Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, who sat on the Human Rights and European Affairs Commissions. From 2003 to the end of 2021, she worked for several European associations and NGOs (creation and management of European projects, network coordination, representation and relations with institutional and financial partners, etc.). In December 2021, she was elected to the Strasbourg City Council. Within the municipal team, she is Deputy Mayor of Strasbourg in charge of cross-border, European and international relations and European institutions. Her political group is "Strasbourg écologiste et citoyenne", which is the majority group. Véronique Bertholle is also a member of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe and, since 2022, has been the Deputy Thematic Spokesperson for Youth, appointed by the Bureau of the Congress.