Bill Olivier, as the Director of JISC's Centre for Educational Interoperability Standards (CETIS), has the responsibility to lead UK HE and FE's activity in international standardization initiatives, and to advise the sectors on developments in the field. He initiated the devleopment of the CETIS Website and the Special Interest Groups as well as the successful CETIS Codebash/Plugfests. He played a major advisory role in the JISC English FE interoperability pilots, in the follow-on programme for Scotland Wales and N.Ireland, and other JISC programmes, leading the development of application profiles for IMS Enterprise and LIP to meet the unique demands of the FE sectors. He is acknowledged as an international authority in the field. He is currently based at the Bolton Institute, working with Professor Oleg Liber. He has worked as a software developer and designer in government, commercial and educational contexts since 1975, focusing on learning technology since 1981.

Lorna Campbell is the Deputy Director of CETIS. She has been responsible for supporting the use of ICT for teaching and learning since 1997 and is currently involved in a variety of projects which aim to facilitate the reuse of interoperable educational resources. These include the Scottish electronic Staff Development Library, the DNER and Learning Objects project and the CEN/ISSS WSLT Taxonomies and Vocabularies Project. Associated areas of research include the implementation of IMS interoperability specifications and the development of educational taxonomies and controlled vocabularies.

Charles Duncan is a Senior Lecturer in the Institute for Meteorology at the University of Edinburgh and has played a major role in developments of modularise and granularise web-based learning content for the past five years. In addition to leading the SeSDL, Pac-Man and a variety of other projects he has also worked as a consultant producing on-line learning material for EuroControl (the European air traffic control organisation) and WMO (World Meteorological Organisation). He is also chairman of the computer-aided-learning working group of SCHOTI (Standing Conference of Heads of Training Institutes of worldwide national meteorological services) and has run a series of international conferences for ten years. He is also currently part-time CEO of Intrallect, an e-learning company spun-out from his research group in Edinburgh University.