Emeritus Professor Ron de Kloet, Academy Professor of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, who has pioneered research on stress hormones in health and disease and more recently on the role of treatment in pregnancy for the prevention of mental disorders in offspring;

Anne Sved Williams currently works at the Discipline of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide. Anne does research in the treatment of mentally ill mothers and their families, with a particular interest in borderline personality disorder and advocacy. Her most recent publication is 'Perinatal and infant mental health: Further fruitful twists of Rubik’s cube'.

Dr Hisako Watanabe, from Keio University in Tokyo with research interests in mother infant mental health and in particular, infant adaptation to the caregiver relationship.