Alan Kohler has been a financial journalist since 1971. He began as a cadet on The Australian; has been a columnist for Chanticleer in The Australian Financial Review and was Editor of the AFR between 1985 and 1988. He was editor of The Age from 1992 to 1995.

Kohler is now chief executive and a major shareholder of Australian Independent Business Media Pty Ltd, which publishes the online investment newsletter Eureka Report and the free, 24-hour business news and commentary website Business Spectator since 2007. He also appears on the ABC’s Inside Business and ABC News. He is also the chairman of Melbourne University Press.

He is married to journalist and author Deborah Forster and has three children.

Andrew Stevens (born June 10, 1955) is an American executive, film producer, director and former actor.

Andrew Stevens was born Herman Andrew Stephens in Memphis, Tennessee. He is the only child of actress Stella Stevens and her former husband Noble Herman Stephens, both natives of Mississippi.

Prior to his producing career, Stevens was a writer, director, and actor. He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his performance in 1978's The Boys in Company C (Columbia Pictures). In 1977, Stevens played 17-year-old Andrew Thorpe on the NBC western series, The Oregon Trail. The program filmed only thirteen episodes, seven of which never aired. He appeared opposite Dennis Weaver and Susan Dey in the short-lived drama, Emerald Point N.A.S., as a playboy/tennis bum in the Columbo episode "Murder in Malibu", and as one of Lucy Ewing's love interests, Casey Denault, in Dallas, for two seasons, beginning in 1987. During this time, he also starred in the popular erotic thriller Night Eyes, and its sequels.

Alan Hull (James Alan Hull, 20 February 1945 - 17 November 1995) was an English singer-songwriter and founding member of the Tyneside folk rock band, Lindisfarne.

Hull was born in Benwell, Newcastle upon Tyne in 1945. He became a member of the band The Chosen Few alongside keyboard player Mick Gallagher in 1962. He supported himself one year by working as a nurse at a mental hospital while appearing as a folk singer and guitarist in local clubs before helping to form Brethren and Downtown Faction, which evolved into Lindisfarne in 1970. He also released a one-off solo single, "We Can Swing Together", which was re-recorded with the group on their first album, Nicely Out of Tune, and became a regular favourite in their stage performances.

As the group's most prolific songwriter and joint lead vocalist, Hull came to be regarded as its leader. In 1972, dissatisfied with the sound and critical reception of their third album Dingly Dell, he considered leaving the group but instead he and joint lead vocalist Ray "Jacka" Jackson formed a new six-piece Lindisfarne the following year, leaving the three other original members to form Jack The Lad. He also released a first solo album Pipedream the same year and published a book of poems, Mocking Horse.

Dr Marius Kloppers (born August 26, 1962) is CEO of BHP Billiton, the world's largest mining company. He is also Executive Director and Chairman of the Group Management Committee.

Kloppers graduated from Helpmekaar Kollege, an IEB school in Johannesburg. Kloppers graduated with a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from the University of Pretoria and subsequently went on to receive a PhD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also graduated with an MBA from INSEAD.

Kloppers worked in petrochemicals at Sasol and materials research with Mintek in South Africa. Following completion of his MBA at INSEAD, he then worked with management consultants McKinsey & Co in Netherlands before joining Billiton in 1993. In 2007, at the age of 44, he was appointed CEO of the largest resource company in the world, BHP Billiton. He officially assumed the position of CEO on 1 October 2007. His total annual compensation for this role is $3,482,948, this consists of a $1,677,070 salary and $1,805,878 bonus. By 2009 his annual compensation had increased to $US 10,399,589. This comprised $2M salary and the balance as bonus.

Warwick McKibbin (born 21 April 1957 in Sydney) is an Australian Professor of Economics at the Australian National University who works across a wide range of areas in applied policy. He has published more than 200 scholarly articles and several books and is internationally known for his contribution to global economic modeling.

He initially studied at the University of New South Wales where he received a bachelor's degree with First Class Honors in both Economics and Econometrics and was awarded the University Medal in 1980. McKibbin then studied under Jeffrey Sachs at Harvard University and was awarded a PhD in Economics in 1986.

He is Director of the ANU Research School of Economics as well as an Adjunct Professor of the Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health. He formed the ANU Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA) in 2005 and was the inaugural Director of CAMA.

He is also the Professorial Fellow of the Lowy Institute for International Policy in Sydney and a non-Resident Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution in Washington DC where he co-directs the Climate Change program.