• Nakamura Mitsuo is Professor Emeritus of Chiba University, Japan. He obtained a B.A. in Philosophy and an M.A. in Anthropology from the University of Tokyo, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from Cornell University.
• Sharon Siddique is Director of Sree Kumar-Siddique & Co. and also Director of the Association of Muslim Professionals (AMP), Singapore. She was formerly Deputy Director of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore. She was educated at the University of Montana and the University of Bielefeld where she obtained a Ph.D. in Sociology.
• Omar Farouk Bajunid is Professor of History at the School of International Studies, Hiroshima City University. He was formerly at the Department of History, University of Malaya. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Kent at Canterbury, United Kingdom.