Ramy Bulan is Associate Professor and Head of the Centre for Legal Pluralism and Indigenous Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur. She works mainly on native title, customary law, and issues relating to minority and indigenous peoples' rights in Malaysia.

Anne Casson is an Associate of the Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program at The Australian National University. She currently lives in Indonesia and works on a number of forestry sector issues, including illegal logging, forest conversion and oil palm development, forest governance and the process of decentralisation in Indonesia’s forest sector.

Fadzilah Majid Cooke is a former Research Fellow of the Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program at The Australian National University, and now heads the Research Unit for Ethnography and Development in the University of Malaysia Sabah. She has conducted extensive research on the political ecology of forest and coastal resources in Sarawak and Sabah.

Ketut Deddy is the Director of SEKALA, an organisation promoting sound environmental management in Indonesia, and a consultant to various other organisations. His main areas of interest are community mapping, forest governance and forest monitoring.

Cristina Eghenter is an anthropologist who has worked in the Indonesian part of Borneo (Kalimantan) for the last 14 years. She advises WWF Indonesia on issues of community empowerment, sustainable development, collaborative management and equity in conservation, and has particular responsibility for community-related activities in the Kayan Mentarang National Park.

Gregers Hummelmose was formerly with the Institute of Geography at the University of Copenhagen, and is currently employed by the Danish Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries.

Ole Mertz is coordinator of the Research Network for Environment and Development in the Institute of Geography at the University of Copenhagen. His research interests are traditional farming systems, the management of natural resources by local communities in developing countries, and relationships between research and development assistance within the environmental sector.

Mogens Pedersen was formerly with the Institute of Geography at the University of Copenhagen, and is currently undertaking postgraduate studies in the Department of Geography and International Development at Roskilde University in Denmark.

Justine Vaz is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Geographical and Environmental Studies at the University of Adelaide. She previously worked for WWF Malaysia, where she was active in projects on biodiversity and forest conservation in Sabah.

Reed Wadley is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He works on issues of forest resource management, conservation, forest-based agriculture and historical ecology in West Kalimantan.