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Margaret Harris is Academic Adviser to the Institute for Voluntary Action Research (IVAR) and Visiting Professor at Birkbeck College, University of London. She was formerly Professor of Voluntary Sector Organisation at Aston Business School, Birmingham, UK and Assistant Director of the Centre for Voluntary Organisation at the London School of Economics.

Steven Heydemann serves as Vice President of the Grant and Fellowship Program. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago (1990) and has held faculty positions at Columbia University and Georgetown University, where he directed the Center for Democracy and Civil Society from 2003-2007. Heydemann directed the Social Science Research Council Program on Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector from 2001-2003.

Director of the Center for the Study of Philanthropy in Israel,The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.Former Dean of the School of Social Work and Social Welfare and the Centraid L.Jacques Menard Chair in Social Work for the Study of Volunteer and Nonprofit Organizations.

Ralph S. Brower is Associate Professor in the School of Public Administration and Policy and Director of the Center for Civic and Nonprofit Leadership, Florida State University. His research uses primarily qualitative methods, and his current work examines theories of voluntary action, especially for international settings.

Paul G. Schervish is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center on Wealth and Philanthropy at Boston College. His most recent book, co-authored by Keith Whitaker is /Wealth and Will of God: Discerning the Use of Riches//in the Service of Ultimate Purpose/ (Indiana University Press: 2010).

Myles is Director of The Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies, QUT. He lectures and researches in the area of nonprofit law, taxation and regulation.

Paul Dekker is Professor of Civil Society at the Department of Sociology of Tilburg University, The Netherlands, and Head of the Participation and Government Research Group of the Netherlands Institute for Social research | SCP. His main fields of research are social and political participation, and public opinion. Dekker is member of board member the International Society of Third Sector research (ISTR).

Bernd Helmig is Full Professor, Chair and Head of Department for Business Administration, Public & Nonprofit Management at the University of Mannheim (Germany). Besides he acts as Academic Director for Executive Education of Mannheim Business School. He was Visiting Faculty Guest at Harvard Business School (Boston, Cambridge/Mass.), and Visiting Scholar at the University of Edinburgh (UK).

Received Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania studying "Board Composition and Structure in Human Service Organizations." Currently a chair of Department of Social Welfare and director of Research Center on Social Welfare at Yonsei University.A board member of the Seoul Metropolitan Welfare Foundation, KBS (Korean Public Broadcasting System) Welfare Foundation, and many other Korean foundations.