Professor Chris Duke is the Chief Executive of the PASCAL International Observatory and Deputy Chair of the Council of the Tavistock Institute in London. He was part-time Director (Higher Education) for NIACE in the UK, and is currently part-time Professor at RMIT University Melbourne, where he was Director, Community and Regional Partnership after being Professor of Lifelong Learning at the University of Auckland. He is an Honorary Professor of Lifelong Learning at the Universities of Leicester and Stirling in the UK. He worked at the now University of Greenwich and then at Leeds before becoming Foundation Director of Continuing Education at the Australian National University, then in 1985 Foundation Professor and Director of Continuing Education at the University of Warwick. After serving as Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Warwick he became President of the University of Western Sydney Nepean. He has worked extensively from the seventies with the OECD and other international organisations mainly on education in relation to development, recurrent education and lifelong learning, also equity and poverty reduction issues, and sustainable development.

Professor Bruce Wilson is Head of the School of Social Sciences and Planning at RMIT University in Melbourne and Co-director of the PASCAL International Observatory. He teaches in organisational and management studies and research methods, and has research interests in various aspects of organisational life, specifically focused on change and learning. Formerly, he was the founding Director of the Union Research Centre on Organisation and Technology Limited (URCOT), which is an independent research centre, affiliated with RMIT. It was established jointly by the Community and Public Sector Union and the Australian Taxation Office to undertake workplace research which would assist union and management representatives involved in major projects involving organisational and technological change. Over time, the scope of URCOT’s activities expanded, and a significant number of organisational and work redesign, systems redesign and occupational health and safety projects has been undertaken with organisations other than the Australian Taxation Office, in the public sector, the community sector and the labour movement. Bruce's experience has encompassed projects in Strategic Thinking, Strategic Human Resource Management, organisational and work design, workforce planning and performance management, and systems integration. In the last year, he has led a number of research and R&D projects focused on work processes and environments in call centres. Prior to joining URCOT in 1991, he was Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Melbourne, and was the founding Director of the Youth Research Centre and the Centre for Urban Studies and Programs. He has co-authored or co-edited five books and many refereed articles and monographs. He is an active member of a number of international research networks.