Katrina Leclerc is a PhD candidate and part-time professor in Conflict Studies at Saint-Paul University, and sessional lecturer at the University of Winnipeg. She serves as chair of the Women, Peace and Security Network - Canada.

Nisha Singh is the Senior Global Policy and Advocacy Manager at Women for Women International and serves as co-chair for the US Civil Society Working Group on WPS. She holds an MA in Public Policy and a Gender, Peace and Security Certificate from Georgetown University.

Shirley Graham is the Director of the Global Gender Policy Program at George Washington University, where she also leads the Athena Initiative: advancing human security in international affairs. She has a PhD from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.