Peter Bleyer is executive director of the Civic Institute of Professional Personnel (CIPP). He is a past executive director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) and the Council of Canadians. He was previously president of the Canadian Council on Social Development (CCSD) and senior advisor at the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC). As a consultant and a volunteer, he has worked with labour and civil society organizations in Canada and internationally. Peter holds a PhD from the London School of Economics. 

Andrew McNeill is a National Representative with the National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) responsible for research into public policy issues such as pensions and taxation. He has worked extensively on privatization, particularly new methods being used to privatize public services.

Ricardo Acuña has been executive director of Parkland Institute, a public policy research institute at the University of Alberta, since 2002. He has spoken and written extensively on energy policy, democracy, privatization, and the Alberta economy, and is a regular media commentator on public policy issues.

Patricia Lane practiced law in the trade union movement, negotiated the first Yukon Treaty, and ran the public consultations for the Ontario Fair Tax Commission. She served on the Sierra Club of BC board and is a founder of Leadnow.ca. She teaches effective climate communication, has a general mediation and arbitration practice, and writes a weekly column for Canada's National Observer.

Lars Osberg is McCulloch Professor of Economics at Dalhousie University, Halifax. He has had visiting positions at numerous international universities, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris, and The Institute for New Economic Thinking, Oxford.

Peggy Nash is the author of Women Winning Office: An Activist’s Guide to Getting Elected and is the co-instructor of the Toronto Metropolitan University Women in the House Program. Nash is a former Member of Parliament holding official portfolios in finance and industry and was a federal NDP leadership candidate.

David Bruer is a program manager with Inter Pares, a feminist, social justice organization in Ottawa, which partners with like-minded groups in the Global South. He currently manages programs in Asia and is part of Inter Pares’ economic justice team looking at Canada’s role in perpetuating poverty and injustice in Southern countries, including through the global tax system.

Zaima Aurony is an M.A. student at Norman Paterson School of International Affairs concentrating on International Economic Policy. She has worked at the Ontario Ministry of Finance as an Economist and is currently interning at the Women in the House Program at Toronto Metropolitan University. As an immigrant woman from Bangladesh, Zaima hopes to further build on her passion for policymaking through a diverse lens by working for the federal government.