Patricia Adams is an economist and the Executive Director of Probe International. Her books include In the Name of Progress: The Underside of Foreign Aid (Doubleday 1985) and Odious Debts: Loose Lending, Corruption and the Third World's Environmental Legacy (Earthscan 1991). Pat also edited the English language translation of Yangtze! Yangtze!, a critique by Chinese experts of the Three Gorges dam.

Before coming to Probe International, Pat worked on a variety of development projects for the International Development Research Centre and Acres International. She taught economics in Jamaica, advised the World Council of Churches’ energy program, chaired the Nairobi‑based Environment Liaison Centre, a coalition of 300 environmental and citizens’ groups from around the world, and was associate editor of the British magazine, The Ecologist. She is a co‑founder of the International Rivers Network and the World Rainforest Movement.

Pat has appeared before Congressional and Parliamentary Committees in the US and Canada and has given speaking tours of the United Kingdom, Argentina, and Chile. She has written editorial page articles for major daily newspapers around the world and has appeared on Canadian, British, Australian, French, Thai, and Japanese TV and radio.

Andrew Coyne is the National Editor of Maclean’s. Raised in Winnipeg, Mr. Coyne received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and History from Trinity College, University of Toronto, and a Masters in Economics from the London School of Economics. He has been an editorial writer and columnist for the Financial Post, the Globe and Mail, and the National Post. In addition, he is a frequent commentator on television and radio. Mr. Coyne has been nominated for four National Newspaper Awards, winning twice. He is also a past recipient of the Hyman Solomon Award for Excellence in Public Policy Journalism.

Glenn Fox is an agricultural and natural resource economist.  He received an undergraduate degree in agriculture in 1977 and a Master of Science in agricultural economics in 1979, both from the University of Guelph. He completed a  Ph.D. in agricultural economics and economics in 1985 at the University of Minnesota.  He has taught at the University of Western Ontario and since 1985 has been a member of the faculty in the Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Guelph.  His teaching and research interests include the economics of property rights and environmental stewardship and economic methodology.  He is a student of the Austrian school in economics, established by Carl Menger at the University of Vienna in the late 19th century.  His hobbies include classical guitar, hockey, fishing and sailing.

David Nowlan has recently taken early retirement from the University of Toronto, where he remains a Professor Emeritus of Economics and a member of the graduate faculty, where he served as vice-president of research and the university's adviser on environmental education for a number of years. He holds degrees in engineering from Queen's University, and in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. In 1965, Mr. Nowlan received his PhD in economics from the University of Toronto.

His published work covers a variety of fields, including economic growth and technical change, development planning, transportation economics, urban and regional economics, land economics and the economics of regulation. His current research focuses on urban land-use and taxation issues, on metropolitan and regional growth, and the relationship between central cities and metropolitan regions, on transportation pricing and on the relationship between transportation and land use.

Mr. Nowlan has acted as a consultant to governments at all levels, from the City of Toronto to the United Nations. Among other activities, he was Tanzania's senior transportation economist in the mid-1960s, a member of the Commonwealth Mission to Uganda in 1979, vice-chairman of the United Nation's Expert Group on Landlocked Countries in the mid-1980s, a consultant to the Jamaican government on the structure of the University of the West Indies, and he has served as an adviser on many of Toronto's city and metropolitan committees. He recently completed a study on the future of downtown for the City of Toronto and a study for the Canadian government on the economic costs of achieving environmentally sustainable transportation in the Montreal-Toronto corridor.

He continues to teach at the University of Toronto where, in 1998, he received the Outstanding Teaching Award from the Faculty of Arts and Science. In the summer of 1999, he taught a course on European regional economics as part of the University of Toronto's summer program at the University of Siena and, in the spring of 2002, he presented several guest lectures on urban issues at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Clifford Orwin is a professor of political science at the University of Toronto. His recent and forthcoming articles include a series of studies on Rousseau, a critique of Charles Taylor's project on multicultural education, two treatments of the political thought of the Hellenistic Jewish writer Flavius Josephus, a political theory review essay on recent books on Thucydides, and a comparison between the compassion of Princess Diana and the Christian charity of Mother Teresa. Mr. Orwin also writes regularly for the National Post, is working on a book about political compassion, and is involved in various ongoing collaborations with colleagues in Israel, Hungary, and Portugal.

Gail Regan is president of Cara Holdings Ltd. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology (1965), a Certificate in Education from the Ontario College of Education, and from the University of Toronto: a Master of Arts in Educational Theory (1969), a PhD in Educational Theory (1973), and a Master of Business Administration in Marketing and Finance (1978). From 1972 to 1982, she was an assistant professor and lecturer at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Education. She is a member of the Canadian Association of Family Enterprise, the Family Firm Institute, the Council for Canadian Unity, Women's College Hospital, and is president of the Friends of Women's College Hospital.

Andrew Roman is a partner with Miller Thomson LLP. Mr. Roman's legal practice concentrates on problems and opportunities in relation to governments and government agencies, particularly in highly regulated areas of law. He has established a reputation for efficiently and successfully resolving complex, difficult regulatory issues. He works with Canadian and international business and government clients.

Mr. Roman's broad practice has recently included energy, competition policy, communications, environmental and municipal law. He has appeared before several parliamentary and legislative committees and made numerous submissions to government ministers and senior officials on matters of law and public policy. He has authored or supervised many research reports, studies and major legal opinions on technically complex issues, often in an interdisciplinary setting with economists, accountants, engineers and other professionals. He has also testified as an expert witness on economic regulation before the Nova Scotia and Manitoba Public Utilities boards.

Mr. Roman represents clients before a range of boards, commissions and tribunals, and at all levels of court in Ontario, as well as the Federal Court and Supreme Court of Canada. His versatility in personally conducting all aspects of his clients' work - from research and writing to negotiations, and from lobbying to litigation - gives clients greater efficiency and control over their work.

Mr. Roman is the author of more than 90 publications, including reports, articles, monographs and a book. His writings have been cited in judgments by the Supreme Court of Canada. He has also contributed editorial assistance to two recent English legal texts by Lord Woolf. Mr. Roman has been a sessional lecturer at four law schools and was chair of National Resources Law at the University of Calgary during the winter-spring 1998 term while carrying on his law practice. He is a frequent conference chair or speaker at continuing education sessions for lawyers, accountants, and regulators.

Andrew Stark of the Division of Management is currently researching and writing a book on one of the hot topics on the American scene: the increasingly blurred border between financial support by public funds and private funds for such core "entitlements" of citizenship as education, health-care, policing and municipal services. In the book, titled Border Battles: Drawing the Line between Government and Market at the Local Level, he examines the issue on a number of fronts, such as: how school boards across the U.S. are debating whether parents should be paying for things like supplementary teachers and supplies for their children in public schools; how some local businesses in California and elsewhere are financially supporting the construction of police stations in their areas; how changes to the welfare and health-care systems in the U.S. are affected by the changes to the public-private border; and how municipal services are affected by the blurring of the line between public and private communities.

Annetta Turner has worked with the Energy Probe Research Foundation since its inception and is currently Secretary Treasurer and Executive Director of The Margaret Laurence Fund. She received a B.A. from the University of Western Ontario and a Diploma in Community Nutrition from the Canadian Dietetic Association. As a National Vice-President of the Consumers Association of Canada she served on the Minister's Committee on Franchising and the Liquor Advisory Council, both with the Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations, and the Social Responsibility in Advertising Committee of the Canadian Advertising Advisory Board. Previously she was Director of Nutrition Services, Associated Milk Foundations of Canada, and Nutritionist and later President of the Board of the Visiting Homemakers Association.

Margaret Wente is one of Canada's leading columnists. As a writer for The Globe and Mail, she provokes heated debate with her views on health care, education, and social issues. She is this year's winner of the National Newspaper Award for column-writing.

Ms. Wente has had a diverse career in Canadian journalism as both a writer and an editor. She has edited two leading business magazines, Canadian Business and ROB Magazine. She has also been editor of the Globe's business section, the ROB, and managing editor of the paper. Her columns have appeared in the Globe since 1992. For the past two years she has been writing full-time for the paper, and she is a frequent commentator on television and radio.

Ms. Wente was born in Chicago and moved to Toronto with her family when she was in her teens. She has won numerous journalism awards. She holds a BA from the University of Michigan, and an MA in English from the University of Toronto. She is married to Ian McLeod, a television producer.