Prof. Jean-Charles W. (Shlomi) Chebat is Research Professor Emeritus at HEC-Montreal (ranked 27th best Business School in the world by www.eduniversal-ranking.com in 2010), the Business School of the University of Montreal (ranked 92nd best University). He was the holder of the ECSC Research Chair at HEC Montreal before he made alyah in 2013. He’s the author/coauthor of some 200 research articles published in top journals in consumer psychology, social psychology, environmental psychology, economic psychology. He has published six books, eleven book chapters and some 150 conference papers. He is regularly invited as a guest speaker and as visiting scholar at conferences and universities throughout the world (China, Japan, Australia, Israel, France).He is a Fellow of several prestigious academies and academic associations ( the Royal Society of Canada, the Academy of Marketing Science, the Society for Marketing Advances and the American Psychological Association). He is or was a member of some 15 Editorial Boards of academic journals. He supervised some 120 M.S. and Ph.D. dissertations. He was the first researcher of his discipline ever elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was elected President of the Academy I of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC).He was elected member of the Hall of Fame of the École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris (ranked as the fifth best European Business School). He was awarded twice the "Best Researcher" award from his School. He was also awarded the "Best Teacher" award for his 43-year long academic carreer. Carleton University recognized him twice as a Leader in Business Research He received 15 Best Paper Awards in the US, the UK, Canada and Europe. He was awarded two research medals for his multidisciplinary research (the Jacques-Rousseau Medal for Best Interdisciplinary Researcher and the Sir Dawson Medal of the Royal Society of Canada). He was knighted by the Prime Minister of Quebec in 2004 and he received an Honorary Doctorate from University of Rennes I (France) in 2005. He published some 400 articles, book chapters or books, that are abundantly cited (about 8000 times) in about 200 different academic journals, in addition to a variety of textbooks and books (G-impact score=85; h-index= 41). Eight articles are cited more than 200 times; 23 more than 100 times. The articles appear in journals such as the Journal of Retailing, Journal of Service Research, Journal of Business Research, Psychology and Markeing, the International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Macromarketing, Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Marketing Management, Journal of Service Marketing,Journal of Gambling Studies, Environment & Behavior, Perceptual & Motor Skills, Journal of Social Psychology, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Journal of Economic Psychology, Ars Semeiotica, Cybernetica. His research is related to a wide variety of fields: services marketing, retailing, environmental psychology, time psychology, personality traits, voice and persuasion, attribution processes, family decision processes, methodology, political and societal marketing, economic psychology, semiotics and rhetoric.

Professor Ching took the Ph.D. at the Australian National University and taught there and at Yale before accepting the invitation from the University of Toronto. She has been a Distinguished (Mellon) Visiting Professor at Rice University and held visiting professorships at Tübingen and Marburg. Her outstanding scholarly achievements are embodied in seven monographic length studies, four in English, two in Chinese, and one in German, 17 chapters of books, 15 refereed articles, and numerous contributions to encyclopaedia. She has served on no fewer than six editorial boards of learned journals. She is the most distinguished scholar in East Asian philosophy and comparative religious studies in Canada and one of the best known in that field in the world.

Dennis Hubert Chitty first became interested in population cycles when, as an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto, he spent four summers as a field biologist with the Ontario Fisheries Research Laboratory on Lake Nipissing. This interest in the factors which regulate the abundance of animals has not lapsed during many years of productive research and close contact with colleagues and students since retirement. Against a background study of the mammal cycles in the Canadian Arctic, he undertook an experimental analysis of the cyclically changing populations of the field vole (Microtus agrestis) in Wales. For a period of twenty-six years, while research officer with the Bureau of Animal Populations in Oxford, he systematically and critically examined the traditional hypotheses for the regulation of the numbers of these small mammals; in turn,he discarded each theory after a careful evaluation of its limitations. Drawing on this and other studies of animal populations, he developed his own hypothesis arguing for a cyclically changing quality (genotypic) in the populations. In 1996 he published an autobiographical account of the history and current status of this hypothesis in a book entitled "Do Lemmings Commit Suicide: Beautiful Hypothesis and Ugly Facts".