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 Professor Robert J. Sternberg is Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Psychology, and Adjunct Professor of Education at Tufts University . He was previously IBM Professor of Psychology and Education in the Department of Psychology, Professor of Management in the School of Management , and Director of the Center for the Psychology of Abilities, Competencies, and Expertise at Yale. Sternberg was the 2003 President of the American Psychological Association, is President-Elect of the International Association for Cognitive Education and Psychology, and Chair of the Publications Committee of the American Educational Research Association. He is the author of about 1200 journal articles, book chapters, and books, and has received over $20 million in government and other grants and contracts for his research, conducted in five different continents. The central focus of his research is on intelligence, creativity, and wisdom, and he also has studied love and close relationships as well as hate. Prof Sternberg has been listed in the APA Monitor on Psychology as one of the top 100 psychologists of the 20 th century, and is listed by the ISI as one of its most highly cited authors in psychology and psychiatry.
 Professor Chris Forlin is Head of the Division of Special Education at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. Her research and publications focus on change paradigms in special education; inclusive education policy and practice; catering for diversity; and curricula and pedagogy for teacher education, with innovative research in working with systems and schools to establish sustainable inclusive education. Prof. Forlin provides leadership in research in education reform for special and inclusive education in the Asian Pacific region and has widespread international experience including Australia , China , Hong Kong, Macau , Vietnam , South Africa , Singapore , UK and Zambia . Her latest book by Routledge is Reform, Inclusion & Teacher Education: Towards a New Era of Special Education in the Asia-Pacific Region.
 Berenice Daniels is an Educational Psychologist who is the Chief Education Specialist, Specialised Learner and Educator Support (SLES) in the Metropole South education district of South Africa. She provides leadership, manages and co-ordinates the various SLES components, Psychology, Learning Support, Social Work, HIV & AIDS unit, National School Nutrition Programme, and drives the District Literacy and Numeracy Improvement Strategy. She has been engaged in initiatives for the development of Special Needs Education, specialised support and inclusive practices at a national level in South Africa . She was the c o-ordinator for the National Commission for Special Needs and National Committee for Education Support Services whose report led to the development of the new national policy on Inclusive Education, and has recently been a member of the reference group for the Redesign of the Western Cape Education Department representing the Specialised Learner and Educator Support component.
 Professor Peter Farrell is the Sarah Fielden Professor of Special Needs and Educational Psychology at the University of Manchester, UK and former President of the International School Psychology Association. He has directed, or co-directed, a number of prestigious research projects on inclusive education and the role of school/educational psychologists. These include projects on the role of support staff in promoting inclusion, the relationship between inclusion and pupil achievement in mainstream schools, the inclusion of pupils with Down's syndrome, teachers' perceptions of school psychologists in different countries and the role of educational psychologists in England and Wales . His recent books include Making Special Education Inclusive: from Research to Practice , London : Fulton, 2002 (co-edited with Ainscow); The International Handbook of School Psychology , Sage, 2006 (co-edited with Jimerson and Oakland ); A Psychology for Inclusive Education, Routledge, 2008; (co-edited with Hick and Kershner). Professor Farrell has undertaken consultancy visits to many countries (e.g. Palestine , Hong Kong , Slovakia ) advising on the development of inclusive education policies and on the development of school psychology services.
 Dr Nora Katona holds a PhD in Educational and Developmental Psychology and Social Processes from ELTE University , Budapest . She has been an active school psychologist in an elementary school, providing a model and policy outlines for successful inclusion well before it became mandatory in Hungary . She has been training heads of school for 15 years in the sphere of adaptive teaching, leadership and inclusion, and has been involved in the development of modules on modern leadership and management of institutional change processes in the nationwide educational human resource development project. She is currently involved in the project aiming at developing resources for the reintegration of drop-outs and troubled youth - aimed especially at those with special education needs. She pioneered the establishment of the Hungarian School Psychology Association and was instrumental in the Hungarian adaptations and standardization of the Woodcock-Johnson Test. Dr Katona is currently the Past-President of ISPA.
 Dr Paul A. Bartolo is Senior Lecturer in Educational Psychology at the University of Malta where he developed and coordinates the M.Psy for Educational Psychologists, and is cofounder of the Programme for Culturally Responsive Education. In Malta he has pioneered the training of teachers in inclusive education, coordinated the National Curriculum Focus Group for Inclusive Education, and was consultant for the development of services for children with developmental disability, particularly autism, at the Malta Eden Foundation. He is Chair of the Inclusion and Special Educational Needs group of the Association for Teacher Education in Europe and coordinated the international Comenius 2.1 Project (2004-07) among seven European higher education institutions which produced multilingual training materials for preparing teachers to respond to student diversity – www.dtmp.org . He has recently edited a special issue of the Malta Review of Educational Research on Culturally Responsive Education. Dr Bartolo holds post-graduate degrees in psychology from the Universities of Toronto, Manchester and London . He was a founder member of the Malta Union of Professional Psychologists in 1992 and its second President. He is the MUPP representative on the Network of European Psychologists in the Education System.
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