Stone is also a director and trustee of a number of private and non-profit making organisations. Whale Watch Kaikoura began as a "do-it-yourself” enterprise that had to break many of the stereotypes within the New Zealand tourism industry. Wally Stone says the formula for success is a business based on a powerful mix of indigenous people, culture, heritage and environment.

Kelsey has degrees from the Universities of Victoria (Wellington), Oxford, Cambridge and Auckland. She is the author of four books on the restructuring of New Zealand economic and social life since 1984, including the best-selling The New Zealand Experiment. A World Model for Structural Adjustment? published in 1995, and revised in 1997. She has also written Rolling Back the State (1993) and A Question of Honour (1990). Her latest book, Reclaiming the Future. New Zealand and the Global Economy examines the impact of globalisation on New Zealand life and future options. Professor Kelsey travels extensively, lecturing on the lessons other countries can learn from the New Zealand experience.

Formerly curator of Contemporary Indian Art at the Canadian Museum of Civilisation, McMaster is a Plains Cree Indian, and one of the most significant figures in contemporary Native art in Canada. As an artist and writer, McMaster has exhibited and published extensively, and has work in art collections internationally. A Ph.D. graduate from the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, he began his education at the Institute of American Indian Arts, completing a B.F.A. at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (1977), and an M.A. in Anthropology at Carleton University (1994). From 1977-81 he headed the Indian Art Programme at the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College