Daniel Acharuparambil, who was born in India in 1939, is  a Discalced Carmelite priest specialising in Indology, with an MA from Benares Hindu University, and a PhD from Angelicum, Rome. Since 1972, he has been teaching subjects related to world religions principally at the Pontifical Urban University. He was Rector of the same University from 1988 to 1994.
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Kenneth Cracknell is currently Research Professor in Theology and Mission at Brite Divinity School, Texas. From 1988 to 1995 he was president of the Cambridge Theological Federation and Senior Tutor at Wesley House in Cambridge, where he also taught in the Faculty of Divinity. Prior to that, for nine years Kenneth was the executive secretary of the Committee for Relations with People of Other Faiths of the British Council of Churches and a member of the Working Group of the Sub-Unit on Dialogue of the World Council of Churches. His publications include Theology on Full Alert (with Christopher Lamb, London: BCC, 1986), Towards a New Relationship: Christians and People of Other Faiths (London: Epworth, 1986) and Justice, Courtesy and Love: Theologians and Missionaries Encountering World Religions (London: Epworth 1995). He is founding editor of Discernment.
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Sefton Davies is an independent consultant and trainer specialising in management in education. He is an associate tutor of the University of Bristol and at the Further Education Staff College (UK), and his clients include the University of Wales, Harvard University, Research Triangle Institute and a number of local authorities and Colleges of Further Education in Britain. He also works extensively overseas in a range of Third World countries, including Pakistan, Egypt, Zimbabwe, Uganda and Malaysia. He is married to Ann and has three children, including his daughter, Kesava Devi Dasi.
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William H. Deadwyler (Ravindra Svarupa Dasa) is a member of ISKCON's Governing Body Commission. He attended the University of Pennsylvania (BA), University of Massachusetts (MA, English), and received his MA and PhD in Religion from Temple University. He served as President of ISKCON of Philadelphia from 1971 to 1978 and again from 1988 to present. He is GBC Secretary for the US Mid-Atlantic Region and Associate and Contributing Editor of Back to Godhead, the magazine of the Hare Krishna Movement. Among his articles and publications are Charismatic Gurus and Managing Directors: Leadership Issues Arising in Retrofitting a Medieval Tradition for the Modern Worl, (Association for the Sociology of Religion, 1995); 'Cleaning House and Cleaning Hearts: Reform and Renewal in ISKCON' (ISKCON Communications Journal, Nos. 3 and 4); 'The Religions of Others in ISKCON's Eyes' (in  Attitudes of Religion and Ideologies Toward the Outsider: The Other. Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1990.) Encounter with the Lord of the Universe: Collected Essays 1978–1983 (Washington: The Gita-nagari Press, 1984).
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Dhyana-kunda Devi Dasi was born in 1967 in Poland. She received her diploma in psychology from Poznan University in 1990. Her thesis was entitled, 'Personality and Mental Health of Bhakti-Yoga Practitioners'. She became a member of ISKCON in 1987 and served in the Poznan centre until 1992. Between 1992–95 she worked as a translator and editor for the North European Bhaktivedanta Book Trust in Sweden. She is currently engaged as a psychological-consultant and co-ordinator for Family Affairs at the ISKCON Moscow temple (Begovaya).
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Klaus Klostermaier is Chairman and Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Manitoba, Canada. He has written many books, including the popular textbook, A Survey of Hinduism (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989,, reprint, updated, 1994) and the much earlier personal reflection of his stay in Vrindavan, Hindu and Christian in Vrindavan (London: SCM Press, 1969).
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Malory Nye is a lecturer in Anthropology of Religion at the University of Stirling. He has conducted research in the development among the Hare Krishna movement and other Hindu groups in Britain. His book, A Place for our Gods (Curzon Press, London, 1996), concentrates on work he did with a Hindu group in Edinburgh. He is currently working on a book about the Bhaktivedanta Manor Campaign.
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Steven J. Rosen (Satyaraja Dasa) is the author of twelve books on Vaisnavism and related subjects, including the soon to be released Vaisnavi: Women and the Worship of Krishna (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1996). He is also the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Vaisnava Studies, a quarterly academic journal.
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