William E. Cooper (aka Bill Cooper) is president emeritus at the University of Richmond. He has written books and articles on cognitive science, international relations, higher education and haiku.

Ed (Edward) C. T. Walker is a consultant whose career includes experience as a consultant to the California State University and the Harvard Division of Continuing Education. He was CEO of the IMS Global Learning Consortium, Vice President of BBN Systems and Technologies, a staff member at Bell Laboratories and a Principal Research Scientist at MIT. He also was co-chair of the MERLOT Advisory Board and a member of Advisory Boards for the Curriki Foundation and the Open Knowledge Initiative. He has a Ph. D. in Psycholinguistics, is a graduate of the Greater Boston Executive Program in Business Management and was a Teaching Fellow in the Harvard Graduate School of Education.