M.V. Ramana is the Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security and Professor at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He is the author of The Power of Promise: Examining Nuclear Energy in India (Penguin Books, 2012) and a forthcoming book explaining why nuclear power is not a solution to climate change to be published by Verso Books. Ramana is a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials, the Canadian Pugwash Group, the International Nuclear Risk Assessment Group, and the team that produces the annual World Nuclear Industry Status Report. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Leo Szilard Award from the American Physical Society.

Gordon Edwards is president and co-founder of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, a not-for-profit corporation established in 1975. He is a retired professor of mathematics and science at Vanier College in Montreal. Dr. Edwards has served as a consultant on nuclear issues for governmental and non-governmental bodies for over 45 years. He has been accepted as an expert witness by US and Canadian courts and tribunals, and has cross-examined nuclear experts during provincial Commissions of Inquiry. He is frequently invited to testify before provincial and federal bodies, and to give major addresses in various countries. His curriculum vitae is on-line.

David Butler-Jones was the Chief Public Health Officer of Canada (Head of the Public Health Agency of Canada) from 2004 to 2014 and was the first person to hold this office. Throughout his distinguished career, he has worked in many parts of Canada in both public health and clinical medicine.

He has taught at the undergraduate and graduate levels and has been actively involved as a researcher and consultant in public health issues. He has served in many professional organizations, including in Canada as President of the Canadian Public Health Association; Chair of the Canadian Roundtable on Health and Climate Change; Member of the Governing Council for the Canadian Population Health Initiative; Chair of the National Coalition on Enhancing Preventive Practices of Health Professionals; and Co-Chair of the Canadian Coalition for Public Health in the 21st Century. He has received the Canadian Public Health Association Robert Davies Defries Award and the Canadian Medical Association’s Medal of Service. In June, 2015 he receive an honorary doctorate from Carleton University.