M. Cherif Bassiouni, J.D. (USA)

Professor of Law and President of the International Human Rights Law Institute at Depaul University College of Law; President, International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Services; Vice-Chairman of the General Assembly's Preparatory Committee on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court, Chairman of the United Nations Committee of Experts Established Pursuant to security Council 780 to Investigate Violations of International Humanitarian Law in the Former Yugoslavia; author and editor of 37 books on U.S. Criminal Law, International and Comparative Law and Human Rights.

Solomon Benatar, M.D. (South Africa)

Solomon R Benatar is Professor of Medicine at the University of Cape Town and Director of the UCT Bioethics Center. He is currently President of the International Association of Bioethics, Chairman of the South African National Research Ethics Committee and Visiting Professor in Public Health Sciences and Medicine at the University of Toronto. His research interests include international research ethics, international heath and Global Health Ethics. He is an ethics consultant to to Medecins Sans Frontieres (Holland) and to the HIV Prevention Trials Network (USA). He is an elected Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Rebecca Cook, J.D. (Canada)

Professor of Law, University of Toronto. Interests include women's rights issues.

Bernard Dickens, L.L.B. (Canada)

Professor of Law, University of Toronto. Interests include medical ethics and health law.

Robert Drinan, S.J., L.L.B. (USA)

Professor of Law, Georgetown University; Member of United States Congress (1971-1981); ordained Jesuit priest; Author, Cry of the Oppressed: The History and Hope of the Human Rights Revolution (1987) and The Fractured Dream: America's Divisive Moral Choices (1991). Interests include international law.

Shimon Glick, M.D. (Israel)

Professor of Medicine and Chairman of the Division of Medicine, Ben Gurion University Faculty of Health Sciences (Beer Sheva, Israel); Dean and Head of Health Services in the Negev Region; Head of Center for Medical Education; Israel Ministry of Health National Advisor Committee on the Ethics of Human Experimentation; Founder, Israeli Society of Medical Ethics. Interests include the ethics of euthanasia, Jewish law, religious rights.

Rosario Morales Isasi, J.D. (Peru)

Jay Katz, M.D. (USA)

Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor Emeritus of Law, Medicine, and Psychiatry and Harvey L. Karp Professorial Lecturer in Law and Psychoanalysis, Yale University; Member, Presidential Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments; Member of Panel and Chairman of Subcommittee, Tuskegee Syphilis Ad Hoc Advisory Panel to the Assistant Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare; Author, The Silent World of Doctor and Patient (1984). Interests include the ethics of human experimentation, psychiatry.

Ian Kennedy, L.L.B. (England)

School of Public Policy, University College, London. Interests include international health law.

Paul McNeill, J.D. (Australia)

University of New South Wales. Interests include the ethics of human experimentation.

Marcia Muñoz, J.D. (Mexico)

Interests include women's rights issues and genetics.

Monica Onyango, R.N. (Kenya)

Edmund Pellegrino, M.D. (USA)

Director, Centre for Clinical Bioethics and John Carroll Professor of Medicine and Medical Ethics, Georgetown University; Author, Humanism and the Physician (1979); Co-Author, A Philosophical Basis of Medical Practice (1981) and For the Patient's Good (1988). Interest centers on medical ethics.

Christian Pross, M.D. (Germany)

Director, Institute for the Care of Victims of Torture, Berlin, Germany; Co-Author, The Worth of Man (1988). Interests include victims of torture and Nazi medicine.

James Otis Rodner, J.D. (Venezuela)

Partner, Rodner, Martinez & Asociados, Caracas, Venezuela; Member of the International Court of Arbitration (ICC), Paris, France; Member of the Academy of Political Science, Venezuela

Leonard Rubenstein, J.D. (USA)

Executive Director, Physicians for Human Rights. Interests include mental health law and forensics.

Evelyn Shuster, Ph.D. (USA/France)

Victor Sidel, M.D. (USA)

Distinguished University Professor of Social Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Founder and former Co-President, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the recipient of the 1985 Nobel Prize for Peace; former President, American Public Health Association; Co-Editor, War and Public Health (1996). Interests center around public health and war.

Margaret Somerville, L.L.B. (Canada)

Gale Professor of Law and Professor of Medicine, McGill University; Foudning Director of the McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law; Recipient of the Pax Orbis ex Jure Gold Medal of the World Jurist Association for support and dedication to the cause of world peace through law (1985). Interests include medical ethics, HIV, pharmacy, and euthanasia.

Elie Wiesel (USA), Nobel Laureate

University Professor at Boston University. Interests include world peace, humanitarianism, survivors, and Holocaust studies.