Rose Dowsett has worked with OMF International since 1969. She taught at Glasgow Bible College (now International Christian College) for many years, developing the missiology track within the degree programme. She is on the Board of Directors of ICC. She also serves as the Vice-Chair of the Mission Commission of the World Evangelical Alliance and coordinates the Global Missiology Task Force. Though officially retired she continues to minister as a speaker and writer on world mission. Her most recent book is Thinking Clearly About the Great Commission
Br. Stephen Smyth is General Secretary of ACTS and chairs the Scottish Coordinating Team (SCOT) of the Edinburgh 2010 Conference. He comes from Glasgow, where he was ecumenical Officer for Glasgow Churches Together for seven years. He is a member of the Marist Brothers, a Roman Catholic Religious Congregation with a focus on education. he is an active member of an ecumenical Contextual Bible Study Group.
Professor Andrew Walls, after missionary service in Sierra Leone and Nigeria, directed the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World, first at the University of Aberdeen and later at the University of Edinburgh, where he remains an honorary Professor. He is also Professor of the History of Mission at Liverpool Hope University and Professor of Mission Studies at the Akrofi Kristaller Institute in Akropong-Akuapem, Ghana. He has written numerous articles and essays, some of which have been collected together and published in The Missionary Movement in Christian History and The Cross-Cultural Process in Christian History
