Sander Abend is past Editor of Psychoanalytic Quarterly and past President of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. He is a member of the Board of Representatives and the Education Committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association.

Jacqueline Amati Mehler is past Vice President and past Secretary General of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He is Past President of the Italian Psychoanalytic Association and Chair of the IPA Committee on Psychoanalytic Education.

Claudio L. Eisirik is President of the International Psychoanalytical Association and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Porto Alegre Psychoanalytical Society. He is Professor of Psychiatry at Federal University, Rio Grande do Sul.

Charles Hanly is Supervising and Training Analyst at the Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is a global representative for the North America International Psychoanalytical Association Board of Representatives.

Alain de Mijolla is Founder and President of the International Association for the History of Psychoanalysis and Editor of International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis.

Edward Nersessian is a psychoanalyst and Co-Director of the Philoctetes Center.