Maria Barbosa-Ducharne
Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Porto, Portugal, where she has been responsible for the fields of Child Protection, Welfare and Adoption
Amy Conley Wright
Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of Sydney and Director of the Institute of Open Adoption Studies
David Cross
Executive Director, Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development at Texas Christian University, and a Professor in the TCU Department of Psychology
Mia Dambach
She is a human rights advocate with 20 years of experience of working on children’s rights. Executive Director of Child Identity Protection
Judith K. Eckerle
Judith K. Eckerle MD is the Medical Director of the Adoption Medicine Clinic (AMC) at the University of Minnesota
Elena L. Grigorenko
Currently affiliated with five universities: Baylor College of Medicine, University of Houston and Yale University in the USA, and Moscow State University for Psychology and Education and St. Petersburg State University in Russia
Harold D. Grotevant
He holds the Rudd Family Foundation Chair in Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Amhers, USA, where he is the founding director of the Rudd Adoption Research Program
Megan R. Gunnar
Regents Professor and Distinguished McKnight University Professor, is the former Director of the Institute of Child Development.
Cécile Jeannin
French jurist with over 15 years’ experience, specialising in alternative care and adoption.
Richard M. Lee
Distinguished McKnight University Professor and the Associate Chair for Research in the Department of Psychology
Laurie C. Miller
Professor of Pediatrics, Adjunct Professor of Nutrition and of Child Development, Tufts University (Boston, USA) and Senior Consultant to the National Center for Adoption and Permanency
Elsbeth Neil
Social worker, Professor of Social Work and Director of Research at the School of Social Work, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England
Eugenia Scabini
Eugenia Scabini is a Professor Emeritus of Social Psychology at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan (Italy). She is currently the President of the scientific committee of the Family Studies and Research University Centre
Rifkat Muhamedrahimov
Chair of Child and Parent Mental Health and Early Intervention and Professor of Psychology at St. Petersburg State University Department of Psychology