Beverly Anne Sabourin is a First Nations Ojibway from northwestern Ontario with extensive professional and volunteer experience in Aboriginal communities and cross-cultural environments across Canada. She has worked as an educational counselor and consultant with two Canadian universities and a community college, as a programme designer and advocate for aboriginal family support services and recently completed a three year commitment as executive director of the Quebec Native Women’s Association where she was very active in programmes promoting day care in aboriginal communities and in halting violence against women. Her professional experience has also included positions with the federal government (Secretary of State - Women and Aboriginal Programmes) and the Ontario Human Rights Commission. Her community volunteer work has been as committed as it has been varied, serving on numerous Boards including the Calgary, Thunder Bay and Montréal Indian Friendship Centres, the Ontario Native Women’s Association and in initiating quality programmes in family support and social housing for aboriginal people.

Beverly has been consistently at the forefront of identifying and providing creative and practical solutions to the problems confronting aboriginal people in urban environments. She was nominated as "Woman of the Year" in Calgary, Alberta, holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology (Lakehead), a Bachelor of Social Work (McGill) and a Masters of Social Work from McGill University in Montréal. She is bilingual in English and Ojibway and understands French.

Peter André Globensky has worked in the field of development - both domestic and international - over a 25 year professional and volunteer career. He has had extensive experience at the most senior levels of the public sector garnering expertise in the fields of government liaison, management and strategic planning, organizational development and social advocacy. Until recently he was with the Montréal-based International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development as Director of Programmes. During his tenure at that institution, he organized an international mission of twelve Nobel Peace Laureates to free Burmese leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi and joined Archbishop Desmond Tutu in advising President Clinton on Burmese policy. Prior to that he served as the Chief of Staff to the Minister of External Relations and International Development (CIDA) and served as a policy advisor to the Prime Minister on Aboriginal Affairs. For fifteen years he worked for the federal department of the Secretary of State with responsibility for aboriginal and human rights programming. He has served on numerous community and foundation boards, enjoys an excellent reputation for resource identification and fund-raising and has extensive experience as a professional trainer and teacher. He has an MA in Political Science from McMaster University in Hamilton, is bilingual (French and English) and can communicate in Spanish. He is currently Director-General of the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment, Canada’s premier forum for inter-jurisdictional discussion and action on the environment.