John Cusworth is Professor of International Development Management and Dean of the School of Social and International Studies at the University of Bradford, UK. With an academic background in Agricultural Economics with degrees from the University of Wales and Leeds he has over thirty five years year experience working in development including a number of operational postings in Africa and the Caribbean. His professional interests include those relating to development project and programme management particularly in the context rural development, local government administration, and institutional capacity building. His research interests have focused on land issues, particularly in Africa, and issues associated with international development assistance. He has undertaken numerous training and consultancy assignments for major international donors including the EU, IBRD and the UK DFID. He has a particular expertise in the monitoring and evaluation of development projects across a range of sectors and countries. He currently co-delivers a masters programme at the Bradford Centre for International Development at the University of Bradford in Project and Programme Implementation and Management, a programme that is also now being partly delivered through a mixed mode of learning in the Caribbean through a collaborative project with CCG consulting and the Caribbean Development Bank.

Teresa Menzies is a senior Professor in the Faculty of Business, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, and teaches courses in entrepreneurship and family business. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. Her research interests and publications in academic journals and books concern entrepreneurship education, ethnic and minority entrepreneurship, and the process of new firm creation. She is associate editor of the Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, and on the editorial board of the International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, and the Journal of Enterprising Communities. These journals are published in Canada, New Zealand, Sweden, and the United Kingdom respectively, attesting to the international reputation and the contribution Dr. Menzies has made to the discipline of entrepreneurship. She is also a reviewer of academic papers for numerous journals and academic meetings. She has been invited as a keynote speaker for many conferences and professional workshops, for instance, she is a frequent presenter at Canadian government sponsored events. Also, in December 2007, she was the invited international researcher for the doctoral seminar series, where she presented her nascent entrepreneurship research, at the Max-Planck-Institute, Friedrich Schiller Universität, Jena, Germany, and then presented her family business related ethnic research at the Family Business Centre at the European Business School in Wiesbaden, Germany. She is also a frequent speaker to educators and service providers for small business owners and entrepreneurs, where youth entrepreneurship is currently a very important topic.

Dr. Menzies has published national reports, funded by The John Dobson Foundation, in 1998, 1999, 2002 and 2004 on Entrepreneurship Education and Entrepreneurship Centres in Canada. She will publish an update of the Strategies and Best Practices of Entrepreneurship Centres, the 2002 edited volume, in 2008. Furthermore, she will also publish in 2008, the updated national report on Entrepreneurship Education in Canada. Professor Menzies has been awarded recognition for her research at the national and international level. For example, in recognition of a "significant contribution to entrepreneurship nationally" she was appointed a McGill University Dobson Fellow in January 2003. She has served as President of the Canadian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (CCSBE/CCPME), and as Academic Reviewer, an elected officer of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Entrepreneurship Division. Professor Menzies has also been a board member of the International Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship. She is an advisor to Industry Canada. In 2007, she was awarded "The Lifetime Achievement Award" by the Canadian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship. An honor reserved for a few of the exemplary entrepreneurship leaders in Canada.

With practical experience of working in a family business and starting her own business, Dr. Menzies brings a unique perspective to her teaching, research and community service. She has authored or co-authored over 100 papers published in academic journals or presented at conferences, worldwide, several of which have received the best paper designation. She is renowned for her ability to communicate her enthusiasm as a strong advocate of entrepreneurship.

Dr. Michael Scriven holds a B.A. in Mathematics (Honours), University of Melbourne, an M.A. in Mathematics and Philosophy (Honours), University of Melbourne, and a D. Phil. from Oxford University. Dr. Scriven is currently a professor in the School of Behavioral and Organizational Studies at Claremont Graduate University and a Research Scholar at Western Michigan University. He has a distinguished teaching career that spans over 40 years. He has held senior appointments at several universities including the Universities of California/Berkeley, Minnesota, and Western Michigan University in the United States, Auckland in New Zealand, and the University of Western Australia; at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and as a Whitehead Fellow at Harvard. Dr. Scriven has served on over 40 editorial committees and editorial boards, published more than 400 scholarly articles in about 11 disciplines, approximately 100 of which have been in evaluation, and published several books. (see Link to full CV).