Mondira Dutta, PhD, is currently the Chairperson of Centre for Inner Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She has been the Director of UGC Central Asia Area Studies Programme for three consecutive terms. She has been actively involved in teaching and research activities for over three decades.Her fields of specialization include Gender & Human Security with particular reference to Violence against Women in South Asia, Afghanistan and Central Asia, Impact Studies and Child Labor. She has been the former Chairperson of the ‘Gender Sensitization Committee against Sexual Harassment’ (GSCASH), Jawaharlal Nehru University (2008). She was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award, at the International Congress of Women for Justice, Equality, Peace and Progress, sponsored jointly by United Nations Information Centre for India and Bhutan, Govt of India, FICCI and The India Today Group, New Delhi, on 7th March 2009.She has been a UN Women consultant from 2009 to 2013 and also been a Consultant to several national and international organizations. To name a few include the British Council, Ford Foundation, NOVIB (The Netherlands), the DFID, The World Bank, International Human Rights Commission, Geneva, Human Rights Commission (Maldives), UNESCO, UN Women (South Asia), besides the government of India’s Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances, Ministry of External Affairs, Ministry of Women and Child Development and the National Commission for Women.The National Strategy on anti–trafficking measures, from Aug 2011 to Dec 2011. During the period her study ‘Understanding Gender Equality, 2012’ was published by the National Commission for Women, Govt of India and released on 13 March 2012. She has been a guest researcher at the Stockholm University, Sweden, for a period of one month from September – October 2012 for research and lectures.

Dr. Edward A. Gotfried D.O., FACOS, Distinguished Surgeon and Educator, is an Associate Professor of Surgery and the Director of the Center for Global Health at the New York Institute of Technology, (NYIT).. He is the recent Chair of the Department of Specialty Medicine at the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine where he also held the position of Coordinator of International Medicine of Ohio University.In 2007 Dr. Gotfried helped establish the NYIT Center for Global Health, an Interdisciplinary Center of Excellence. The Center for Global Health sponsors a multidisciplinary program that includes international conferences; establishing research and community service clerkships for NYIT COM & Health Profession students in other countries; and research efforts involving many of the schools of NYIT (i.e. Health Professions, Engineering, & Education), to address global medical concerns. The Center has established Outreach projects in Ghana, El Salvador, Belize, Haiti, and Costa Rica, and soon Nanjing, China and Ethiopia.

Dr. Ivo Slaus is Honorary President of the World Academy of Art and Science, Dean of Dag Hammarskjold University College of International Relations (Zagreb) and a former President of WAAS.He is also Member of the international advisory council of the Club of Rome and a former president of the Croatian Association of the Club of Rome. His many scientific and diplomatic roles include: Founding Fellow of Academia Europea; Member of the Pugwash Council and former president of Croatian Pugwash; Member of the managing board of the Balkan Political Club; Chairman, International Network of Centers for Sustainable Development; Founder and former Executive Committee member of the European Physical Society; Fellow, World Innovation Foundation. As a former Member of the Parliament of Croatia (2000- 2003), he served on board of the Committee for Education, Science and Culture, and in the role of the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Higher Education.

Dr. Kevin O’Connor is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education and Schooling, Faculty of Teaching and Learning at Mount Royal University, Canada. He has received a B.Ed., an M.A. in Curriculum Studies and a Ph.D. in Education from McGill University. He has taught in elementary and secondary schools for 15 years and as an educational administrator was responsible for integrated experiential science programs in the Yukon Territory, Canada. Kevin was a Visiting Professor at both McGill University and the University of Ottawa and acted as a Senior Policy Advisor to the Federal Government of Canada on Aboriginal education issues. Much of his current research and publications are based on the synthesis of multi-sensory pedagogy and interdisciplinary curriculum through the integration of experiential and place-based learning, science field studies and Aboriginal education and how these effective inclusive pedagogical practices can support teacher education through a balance of theory and practice.Dr. O’Connor sits as an Advisory Board member on the Canadian Research Institute for Social Policy, GLOBE-NASA International Science Education Group and The Paulo and Nita Freire International Center for Critical Pedagogy.

Dr. Billy Adamsen is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Leadership & Corporate Strategy, University Of Southern Copenhagen, Denmark. Since 1995, Dr. Adamsen has held different research and teaching positions at the different universities in Denmark. Over the years his research has been on a variety of subjects within Management, Media, Talent Management, Sport and Communication. He has published several books and articles on these subjects and today has his own blog in one of the Danish news media.In addition to his research he has an extensive experience from business life, sports and politics. For years, he has been a consultant, director and CEO and board member for different companies within different branches in Denmark, Sweden and US. Dr. Adamsen has also worked as an adviser for the Danish Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Business affairs of Denmark.

Dr. Kaarina Maatta, is professor of educational psychology at the Faculty of Education, University of Lapland, and deputy vice-chancellor at the University of Lapland, Finland. During her career, she has supervised over 50 doctoral theses, written hundreds of articles and dozens of books, especially about love and social relationships during human beings´ life-span, human strengths, early childhood education and student guidance, teacher training and teacherhood.