Alan Crawford (Chair) is Emeritus Professor of Education at California State University, Los Angeles, USA.

Cecilia Amaluisa is Education Director of Centro de Educación y Promoción Popular, Quito, Ecuador.

Lydia Dachkova is President of the Bulgarian Reading Association, editor of "Kritichesko mislene" journal, Sofia, Bulgaria.

Donna Ogle is Professor of Reading and Language at National Louis University, Chicago, USA. She was president of the International Reading Association in 2001-2002.

Meeli Pandis is Lecturer of Department of Educational Sciences at Tallinn University and President of Estonian Reading Association, Tallinn, Estonia.

E. Wendy Saul is Professor of Education and International Studies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA. She was a founding editor of Thinking Classroom/Peremena.

Ann-Sofie Selin is Reading and Special Education specialist, Cygnaeus Elementary School, Turku/Abo, Finland, and chairperson of the European Committee IDEC of the International Reading Association.

Aija Tuna is Program Director in the International Step by Step Association.

Scott Walter is Principal Education Advisor, Policy Branch, Canadian International Development Agency, Ottawa, Canada. He is a previous co-director and one of the founders of the RWCT project.