Dr. Kenneth Melchin is Professor of Ethics in the Faculty of Theology and Director of the Lonergan Centre at Saint Paul University. He has been researching, publishing, teaching, and lecturing on the work of Lonergan for over twenty-five years. His books include Living With Other People (also published in French and Spanish) and History, Ethics and Emergent Probability, and his articles appear in Theological Studies, Negotiation Journal, Lonergan Workshop, and Catholic Theological Society of America Proceedings, as well as many other journals and edited collections. His research focuses on ethical theory, peace and conflict, business and economic ethics, and social and political ethics. He is advisor to the editorial board of the University of Toronto Press, Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan Series and founding board member of the Ethics Centre at Saint Paul University.

Morag McConville is a graduate student studying ethics at Saint Paul University. For the past decade she has worked with Lonergan scholars with the aim of bridging the gap between theory and practice in order to develop tools for community economic development, business development, and workplace ethics’ practitioners. Morag has a background in business having held senior positions in both the private and non-profit sector on both sides of the Atlantic. Returning to Canada in 1981, she developed entrepreneurial programs for a variety of populations including the unemployed, people with mental illness, the disabled, women in poverty and youth in crisis. More recently, she developed a catering business that employs over 75 people that suffer from mental illness. Working with a team of cross-sector organizations she was instrumental in launching the Social Purchasing Portal in Ottawa, Canada.

Dr. Andrea Bartoli is the Drucie French Cumbie Chair of the Institute of Conflict Analysis and Resolution (ICAR) at George Mason University. He works primarily on Peacemaking and Genocide Prevention. The Founding Director of Columbia University’s Center for International Conflict resolution (CICR), a Senior Research Scholar at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), a Teaching Fellow at Georgetown University, and at the University of Siena, Dr. Bartoli has taught in the US since 1994. He chaired the Columbia University Seminar on Conflict Resolution. He has published books and articles on violence, migrations, and conflict resolution.

Dr. Catherine E. Clifford is a professor of Systematic and Theology and Director of the Doctor of Ministry programme in the Faculty of Theology at Saint Paul University. Her research and teaching is focused in the areas of ecclesiology and inter-church dialogue. She finds in Lonergan’s work a helpful framework from within which to reflect upon questions related to the methodology of theological dialogue, the relationship between theology and canon law, and the dynamics of change and renewal in the life of the church. Her publications include The Groupe des Dombes: A Dialogue of Conversion (New York: Peter Lang, 2005), and articles in several theological and canonical journals. She has served for many years as a member of the Anglican-Roman Catholic dialogue of Canada, and was recently nominated to serve as the representative of the Catholic Theological Society of America within the International Network of Catholic Theological Societies.

Dr. Darlene O’Leary graduated from Saint Paul University with her PhD (Th.) in the Ethics concentration in 2007. Her thesis was titled “An Integral Vision of Economic Transformation: The Relevance of Bernard Lonergan to Debates in Canadian Catholic Social Ethics on the Relationship of Ethics and Economics and the Function of Profit”. Darlene received her MA in Theology from Regis College in Toronto in 1999. Her MA thesis was also on the work of Bernard Lonergan, SJ, and was titled “Lonergan’s Practical View of History”. Darlene is now the Executive Director of Galilee Centre a spiritual retreat centre sponsored by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate located in Arnprior, Ontario.

Dr. Cheryl Picard is an educator, researcher and practitioner specialising in conflict studies. Her teaching, research efforts, as well as her collaboration with Dr. Ken Melchin have led to the development of a model of mediation called Insight Mediation, a learning-centred model that advances mediation theory and practice beyond traditional interest-based processes. Those efforts have culminated in a book, co-authored with Dr. Melchin, to be published in 2008 by the University of Toronto Press. Dr. Picard is active locally, nationally, and internationally. She has served on a number of professional boards, including as a founding board member and first president of the Neighbouhood Coalition for Conflict Resolution (NCCR), a non-profit, multi-cultural community based conflict resolution programme for individuals living in social housing communities in Ottawa. In addition, she has been active in the promotion of mediation and conflict resolution projects in Bermuda and Cuba, and has taught in universities across the globe.

Dr. Jamie Price is Research Professor at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University and Executive Director of the Sargent Shriver Peace Institute. His areas of research include the philosophy of Bernard Lonergan, method in peacebuilding, spirituality, and social transformation.

Dr. Michael Stebbins is Director of the Gonzaga Ethics Institute at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. He is responsible for designing and conducting ethics programmes aimed at a variety of audiences – students, faculty, staff, alumni, professional groups outside the university, and businesses and other oganisations. From 1994 to 2000 he served as a Senior Fellow at the Woodstock theological Center, located at Georgetown University, where he directed the Arrupe Program in Social Ethics for Businees. Dr. Stebbins hold a B.A. in philosophy from Gonzaga University (1977) and a B.S. in nursing from the University of Washington (1981). He received a Ph.D. in theology from Boston College, concentrating in the areas of systematic theology and ethics. He is the author of The Divine Initiative: Grace, World-Order, and Human Freedom in the Early Writings of Bernard Lonergan (University of Toronto Press, 1995).

Dr. Bruce Anderson is a professor in the Department of Accounting and Law at Saint Mary’s University. His areas of research include legal theory, legal philosophy, legal reasoning, business ethics and Lonergan’s economics.