Susan M. Capalbo is Professor of Agricultural Economics and the Director of Special Programs in the Office of the Vice President for Research at Montana State University. Until March 2007, she was also the Director of the Big Sky Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership. She has been appointed to numerous national, state and university committees, including her current appointments to the Montana Governor's Climate Change Scientific Advisory Committee and the Montana State University President's Council. Capalbo has been involved in the research on diversity in academics, the economics of climate change and carbon sequestration, and integrated policy analysis and tradeoff assessment for the past ten years.

DongHyun Lee (dhlee@skku.edu) is Professor of Chemical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University, and is considered to be one of the leading authorities in Korea in the field of energy and environment-related technologies. He is the author of more than 80 papers and patents. Professor Lee received his Ph.D in Chemical Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 1994, and began his career as a senior process engineer at Hanwha Chemical Company, which has one of the best research facilities in Asia. Since then, he has held various research or teaching positions at the University of British Columbia, and at Chungnam National University and KAIST in Korea. Professor Lee’s expertise ranges from fundamental fluidization and computational fluid dynamics, to industrial polymerization processes. His current research projects include studies on fluidization technology with application to a Gas-to-Liquid technology, the development of the MTO (Methanol to Olefin) process, and the synthesis of high temperature carbon capture sorbents. At the Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy, he collaborates with Professor Park and Professor Lackner on a project involving the design and optimization of a Fischer-Tropsch reactor with integrated carbon capture technology.

Thorsteinn I. Sigfusson is Professor of Physics at the Science Department of the University of Iceland. He currently chairs Icelandic New Energy, Ltd., the company responsible for the creation of the hydrogen economy in Iceland, and had been leading efforts to make Iceland the world's first hydrogen economy. He is also co-chair of the International Partnership for the Hydrogen Economy. Sigfusson has authored more than 160 papers and patents, many of which concern renewable energy and its vectors. He is currently Chairman of the Educational Group on University Education, which was founded by the Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Advisory Council of the European Union. In 2004, he was awarded Knighthood by the President of Iceland for his research.

Bob van der Zwaan (vanderzwaan@ecn.nl) is a Senior Scientist at the Energy Research Center of the Netherlands. He received his Ph.D. in particle physics in 1995 after a four-year employment at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN, Geneva). In 1997, he obtained an M.Phil. degree in economic theory and econometrics from the University of Cambridge, King's College. Since then, he has been researching various subjects related to energy economics, climate change, and technological innovation. He has held various research positions at Institut Français des Relations Internationales (IFRI, Paris), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA, Vienna/Laxenburg), the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC, Stanford University), the Institute for Environmental Studies (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), and the Belfer Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, where he was a research associate with the Managing the Atom Project.