Doo-Young Cho is professor of Psychiatry, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at New York University, and Senior Fellow of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology.

César Garza-Guerrero is a psychoanalyst trained at the Menninger Foundation and is head of the Department of Psychiatry at the University Hospital, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico.

This institute was named for Han Groen-Prakken, a psychoanalyst in Amsterdam who has worked tirelessly with Eastern European colleagues and who, with others, have laid the foundation for psychoanalysis in that region.

Sara Zac de Filc received an MS in Psychology from Bank Street College of New York in 1955 and her M.D., with honors, from Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de Buenos Aires in 1972.