Nick Bostrom Nick Bostrom is the co-founder of the World Transhumanist Association. In 2004, along with James Hughes, Bostrom co-founded the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. In 2005 he was appointed Director of the newly created Oxford Future of Humanity Institute, part of the James Martin 21st Century School at Univeristy of Oxford. Visit Nick Bostrom’s homepage at www.nickbostrom.com .

Lester Brown The Washington Post called Lester Brown "one of the world's most influential thinkers." The Telegraph of Calcutta refers to him as “the guru of the environmental movement.” In 1986, the Library of Congress requested his personal papers noting that his writings “have already strongly affected thinking about problems of world population and resources.” In 1974, with support of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Lester Brown founded the Worldwatch Institute, the first research institute devoted to the analysis of global environmental issues. While there he launched the Worldwatch Papers, the annual State of the World reports, World Watch magazine, a second annual entitled Vital Signs: The Trends That are Shaping Our Future, and the Environmental Alert book series. Brown has authored or coauthored 50 books. One of the world's most widely published authors, his books have appeared in some 40 languages. In May 2001, he founded the Earth Policy Institute to provide a vision and a road map for achieving an environmentally sustainable economy. He is the recipient of many prizes and awards, including 23 honorary degrees, a MacArthur Fellowship, the 1987 United Nations' Environment Prize, the 1989 World Wide Fund for Nature Gold Medal, and the 1994 Blue Planet Prize for his "exceptional contributions to solving global environmental problems." More recently, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Italy, the Borgström Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry, and appointed an honorary professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Mat Collins Mat has a ph.D. in meteorology from the University of Reading and has carried out climate-related research at both Oxford and Reading Universitites. He has nearly 15 years of experience in the area. Mat is now a senior climate scientist and the manager of the climate prediction group at the Hadley Centre, the world-leading climate change research department of the UK Met Office.

Hugo de Garis Hugo is a researcher in the sub-field of artificial intelligence (AI) known as evolvable hardware. He is famous for his hypothesis that neural network circuits can be evolved using three dimensional cellular automata inside field programmable gate arrays to create "artificial brains". de Garis originally studied theoretical physics, but he abandoned this field in favour of artificial intelligence. He received his PhD at Brussels University, Belgium, and later became an associate professor of computer science at Utah State University. He is currently the head of the Artificial Intelligence Group at the International School of Sotfware (ISS) at Wuhan University in China, and is a scientist at ATR Research Lab in Kyoto, Japan. He is the author of the book, The Artilect War.