Dr David Coall is a biological anthropologist. He holds the positions of Discipline Lead Medical Sciences; Senior Lecturer and Biomedical Science Course Coordinator in the School of Medical and Health Sciences at Edith Cowan University. David completed his PhD in the School of Anatomy and Human Biology at UWA. During this time, he also completed a Teaching Internship with Prof Allan Goody in the Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning at UWA. Over the past 20 years he has enjoyed teaching a broad range of human biology topics to thousands of students around the world. His overarching goal as a teacher is to facilitate student engagement with, and enjoyment of, the rich diversity of information available through his strong and active teaching-research nexus. It is hoped, showing students how research and teaching are co-dependent and introducing students to the excitement and challenges researchers experience, will inspire students to explore the diversity of information available. He teaches human evolution and ecology and the new field of evolutionary medicine.

Dr. Sharon Schembri holds a PhD in Management from The University of Queensland. She has more than 25 years of experience in higher education in Australia and the USA. She has held various academic leadership positions and is currently Dean of Higher Education at TAFE Queensland. Dr. Schembri is well published with more than 50 publications as well as four books and five films. Her primary discipline is business and her research includes ethnographies, phenomenological studies and narrative analyses, primarily in the area of consumer research.

Dr. David Santandreu Calonge is Head, Educational Program Development at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (United Arab Emirates). He has previously worked in Hong Kong, South Korea, Australia, and Dubai and has written in the areas of education policy, MOOCs, curriculum design, and disruptive technologies in education.

Amy McHugh Cole is an Academic Facilitator and Lecturer for the National Centre for Cultural Competence. Working towards her PhD in Curriculum, Instruction and the Science of Learning through the University at Buffalo, Amy also teaches intercultural communication online for the State University of New York at Oswego. Amy brings her years of teaching experience and research in the area of Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) and its effects on cultural competence to the NCCC. She is interested in how technology and motivation play a role in our ongoing journey towards cultural competence.

Dr Matthew Tyne is currently an Academic Facilitator at the National Centre for Cultural Competence at the University of Sydney, where he facilitates workshops on anti-racism, unconscious bias and cultural competence. He worked for over 15 years in international community development, especially in the Indo Pacific region, where he worked on various applied theatre projects with local activists/actors/ teachers and community groups. A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts (School of Drama), he recently completed his PhD (Theatre and Performance Studies, USYD), a performance ethnography that explores how gay men in Colombo might use theatre as a mode of advocacy and site of discussion for issues important to them. He is of mixed settler and Kamilaroi ancestry and lives on Gadigal country (central Sydney).