Daryle Rigney is director of the Indigenous Nations and Collaborative Futures research hub at Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous
Education and Research, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Daryle is one of
Australia's foremost Indigenous nation building scholars and practitioners. He has been a critical strategist for the Ngarrindjeri Nation in asserting its sovereignty and exercising its inherent rights to self-determination and was and is pivotal to the formation of Ngarrindjeri decision-makings institutions and mechanisms.

Damein Bell is a Gundtijmara man and Chief Executive Officer of Gunditj Mirring
Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation (GMTOAC), Australia. Under instruction from the community, he implements the Corporation's strategic plan, and advocates for
Gunditjmara in native title and cultural heritage.

Miriam Jorgensen is a Research Director of the University of Arizona Native Nations
Institute, USA, and Research Director of the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic
Development. Her work in Indigenous governance and economic development-in
the United States, Canada, and Australia-has addressed issues as wide-ranging as
child welfare policy, policing and justice systems, natural-resource management,
cultural stewardship, land ownership, tribal enterprises, housing, financial education,
and philanthropy.

Alison Vivian is a lawyer and Senior Researcher in Indigenous Nations and Collaborative Futures at Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Alison's primary research focus relates to Indigenous nation-building and governance as an exercise of Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination.

Steve Hemming is a member of the Indigenous Nations and Collaborative Futures
research hub at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. His work with Indigenous
communities began in the early 1980s as a museum curator and, over the last few
decades, his community engagement and research has focussed on Indigenous
nation building, environmental management, cultural heritage management, and
Indigenous environmental studies.

Stephen Cornell is Professor of sociology, faculty chair of the Native Nations Institute
at the University of Arizona, USA. A political and cultural sociologist, Cornell and
economist Joseph P. Kalt founded the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic
Development. In 2000-2001, Cornell led the development of the Native Nations
Institute at Arizona, an outgrowth of the Harvard Project. Cornell has written widely
on Indigenous affairs, economic development, collective identity, and ethnic and
race relations.