Mitzie Hunter is Vice-President, External Relations, for Goodwill Industries of Toronto, responsible for leading all aspects of Goodwill’s corporate brand strategy. She is also co-chair of the Toronto City Summit Alliance, Emerging Leaders Network conference on leadership. She is past president of SMART Toronto, a leadership association for the technology sector. Before that, she was Regional Director of Government Relations for Bell Canada, responsible for issues management and economic development. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Housing Services Inc., a subsidiary of the Toronto Community Housing Corporation. She has also co-chaired the Board of Directors of the New Media Village Growth Corporation, chaired the Board of Directors of Liberty Village New Media Centre, and served on the boards of TVOntario, United Way, and the Yonge Street Mission. In 2006, she was appointed to the Ontario Ministry of Labour Action Group: Vulnerable Workers Under the Age of 25.

Dr. Linda Inkpen is a medical practitioner in St. John’s, Newfoundland, and holds degrees from Memorial University in Science, Education, Medical Science, and Medicine. In addition to her work as a doctor, she chairs the board of Fortis Properties, and is a director of the parent company, Fortis Inc. She is past chair of Newfoundland Power and from 1987 to 1993 served as President of Cabot College (now the College of the North Atlantic). Dr. Inkpen has served on commissions and inquiries at the provincial and federal levels, such as an inquiry into labour-relations problems at a fish plant and a review of conditions at Newfoundland's youth-detention centre. She has also acted as a lay member of the Newfoundland Law Society and been a member of The National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy. She chairs the Medical Advisory Committee for the Eastern Health Board in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Antonia Maioni is Director of the Institute for the Study of Canada at McGill University, where she also holds the positions of Associate Professor of Political Science and William Dawson Scholar. She has held visiting appointments at Harvard’s Center for European Studies, the North American Studies Program at Duke University, and the European University Institute. Professor Maioni has published widely in the fields of Canadian and comparative politics, with a focus on health and social policy. She is a frequent media commentator on Canadian and Quebec politics and public policy, in both English and French, for local, national, and international media. She serves as a mentor in the Action Canada Programme for young leaders, and sits on the boards of the Institute for Research on Public Policy, and the McCord Museum of Canadian History, and is a member of the Executive of the Banff Forum.