Chrys Akem - Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, Queensland, Australia

Fen Beed - International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Cotonou, Benin

Charlie Delp - International Society for Plant Pathology, Tampa, Florida, USA

Richard Falloon - National Centre for Advanced Bio-Protection Technologies, Christchurch, New Zealand

Lodovica Gullino - Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy

Hajime Kato - Professor Emeritus, Kobe, Japan

Jill Lenné - Turiff, Aberdeenshire, UK

Emmanuel Moses - Crops Research Institute, Kumasi, Ghana

Chris Mundt - Oregon State University, USA

Meena Muthumeenakshi - Warwick HRI, UK

Rebecca Nelson - Cornell University, New York, USA

Serge Savary - INRA, Villenave d'Ornon, France

Peter Scott - International Society for Plant Pathology (ISPP), Oxford, UK (Chairman)

Richard Strange - University College London, UK

Tang Wenhua - China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Paul Teng - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Nollie Vera Cruz - International Rice Research Institute, Los Baños, Philippines

Jacqui Wright - Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Papua New Guinea