Bowker, John is a prize-winning author who was formerly Professor of religious Studies at the University of Lancaster, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Professor at Gresham College, London. He has been Adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and at North Carolina State University. He is the editor of The Oxfrd Dictionary of World Religions, and author of What Muslims Believe, God — A Brief History, The Cambridge Illustrated History of Religions, The Sacred Neuron, Beliefs that Changed the World: The History and Ideas of the Great Religions and The Meanings of Death, which won the HarperCollins Book Prize.                   

Kaczmarczyk, Andrzej, Ph.D., Warsaw University of Technology, has extensive research in the field of applied cybernetics - automation, robotics, and informatics. He is the author of Technology Around You, Industrial Robots of Eighties, and co-author of Elements of Modern Technology and Robots, and Factory of the Future. He has been engaged in forecasting work, as well as in popularization of science and technology in Poland. For  years he has cultivated great interests in use of technology for democracy development. He collaborated with the Initiative & Referendum Institute Europe and with the CyberVote project. Dr. Kaczmarczyk is currently with the Institute of Mathematical Machines, Warsaw and his research interests are in computer modeling and simulation.

Levinson, Jay was awarded his Ph.D. by the Department of Near Eastern Studies at New York University. He worked at the CIA in Washington, D.C., and then was employed by the Israel Police for 20 years. During his career he worked on numerous counter-terrorist and disaster response issues. Dr. Levinson is an internationally recognized authority on forensic science and disaster victim identification. Currently, he is a Visiting Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.

Tansley, Robert is a father. This role is the thing that defines him the most as a person. It is his top priority in his values. Along with being a Writer Robert has worked as a Therapist helping both children and adults struggling with mental health related issues. Part of this work has been with the most vulnerable in our communities, the homeless, the abused, those struggling with addictions and people with mental health challenges. Robert has spent thousands of hours, with individuals, couples, families, and groups, in therapy listening to stories of tragedy, horror, healing and change. It is the collective spirit of these people that energizes Robert’s writing. Robert holds an undergraduate degree from Lakehead University in ThunderBay and a Masters degree from the University of Toronto, both in Social Work. Robert continues to live and write in Brantford, Ontario with his family. His upcoming book Predisposed is the story of a life not too uncommon but often denied. It is a story of struggle, challenge, oppression and ultimately healing.