Syed A. Sattar is Founding Director of the Centre for Research on Environmental Microbiology (CREM), and also Professor Emeritus of Microbiology at the University of Ottawa. He regularly provides scientific and technical input to regulatory agencies, international organizations, as well as the private sector. He is a registered member of the Canadian College of Microbiologists and a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, and was also recently appointed Senior Scientific Advisor to Health Science North (Sudbury, ON, Canada).

Professor Len Ritter is currently Professor Emeritus of Toxicology in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of Guelph. Len has served on various expert panels and boards including the International Centre on Pesticide Safety, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the National Cancer Institute of Canada and the Canadian Cancer Society, the US National Cancer Institute, and the World Health Organization Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives. Len advises government departments and agencies, and various industries, in Canada and abroad on issues related to pesticides, risks from exposure to toxic chemicals, and human health risk assessment.

William Leiss is a Fellow and Past-President (1999-2001) of the Royal Society of Canada, and an Officer in the Order of Canada. From 1999 to 2005, he held the NSERC/SSHRC Research Chair in Risk Communication and Public Policy in the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary.

Sam Kacew is a Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Ottawa, and Associate Director of Toxicology of the Institute for Population Health at the University of Ottawa.

Dr. Tee Guidotti is an international consultant in Occupational and Environmental Health. He retired in 2008 as Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at The George Washington University, where he was Chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health in the School of Public Health and Health Services, and Director of the Division of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology of the Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Dr. James Gomes, PhD is an Associate Expert with Risk Sciences International and an associate professor at the Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa. Dr. Gomes is affiliated with the Institute of Population Health, Institute of Environment, and Center for Advanced Research in Environmental Genomics. He supervises graduate students in the Population Health Program, Epidemiology Program, Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Certificate Program in Population Health Risk Assessment.

Dr. Bird is an Associate Expert at Risk Sciences International and an Affiliate Scientist at McLaughlin Centre for Human Health Risk Assessment, and has an adjunct appointment at the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers University, NJ, USA.

Since 2002, Dr. Arnold has been a consultant to the International Aluminium Institute, the International Council on Mining and Metals, Rio Tinto, Activation Analysis Inc., TDV Global, EEM, and Sun Life.