Daniel Dor has a PhD in Linguistics from Stanford University, and is Senior Lecturer in Communication at Tel Aviv University. His main interest lies in the development of a theory of language as a communication technology. Together with Eva Jablonka, he has written extensively on the evolution of language. In a different (but related) domain, Dor has published books and articles on the role of the media, and its language, in the construction of political hegemony. His Intifada Hits the Headlines was chosen as book of the year 2004 in communication by Choice Magazine.


Chris Knight was for many years Professor of Anthropology at the University of East London, although he is now retired. Best known for his 1991 book, Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture, he co-founded the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG) series of international conferences and has published widely on the evolutionary emergence of language and symbolic culture.


Jerome Lewis lectures in Social Anthropology at University College London and co-directs the Hunter-Gatherer Resilience Project, the Extreme Citizen Science Research Group and UCL's Environment Institute. His research focuses on Pygmy hunter-gatherers and former hunter-gatherers in Central Africa. Current research focuses on communication and cultural transmission in egalitarian hunter-gatherer societies.

Zanna Clay, Emory University, USA
Dan Dediu, Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands
Jean-Louis Dessalles, Telecom ParisTech, France
Daniel Dor, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Nick J. Enfield, Radboud University and Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands
Simona Ginsburg, Open University of Israel
Eva Jablonka, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Sverker Johansson, University of Jönköping, Sweden
Adam Kendon, University College London, UK
Chris Knight, University of East London (retired)
Ehud Lamm, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Stephen C. Levinson, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands
Jerome Lewis, University College London, UK
Simone Pika, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Germany
Camilla Power, University of East London, UK
Jack Sidnell, University of Toronto, Canada
Chris Sinha, Lund University, Sweden
Luc Steels, University of Pompeu Fabra, Spain, and Sony Computer Science Laboratory, France
Ian Watts, Independent researcher in pigment use in southern Africa
Charles Whitehead, University of Westminster (retired)
Emily Wyman, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
Jordan Zlatev, Lund University, Sweden
Klaus Zuberbühler, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland