Dr. Sebastien Gay is a private consultant and currently teaches in the Economics Department at the University of Chicago and launched the Program on Companion Animal Capital in 2008.

Sarah Baeckler is executive director of Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest, which provides sanctuary for chimpanzees discarded from the entertainment and biomedical testing industries.

Educated at Trinity College Cambridge, Peter Stevenson is a qualified lawyer. He is the Chief Policy Advisor of Compassion in World Farming. In 2004 Peter was the joint recipient of the RSPCA Lord Erskine Award.

Pamela D. Hart is director of the Animal Law Program at the Animal Legal Defense Fund. Additionally, Ms. Alexander is an adjunct professor teaching Animal Law at the University of Chicago Law School.

Dr. Bailey Norwood is an associate professor of agricultural economics at Oklahoma University, where he began in 2003. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from North Carolina State University in 2001.