Kevin Vang has been the Executive Director of the Australian Foundation (AFAP) for the last eleven years.  AFAP is one of Australia's oldest and most progressive overseas aid agencies with offices and programs in over 40 countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific. Through AFAP, he has a wide network of development and environment contacts around the globe. He has been interested in birds and nature since he was a child.  He has led a number of birdwatching, natural history and ancient history expeditions to a variety of places specialising in New Guinea, Solomons, Chile, Argentina, Nepal, Sikkim and other hill states of Northeastern India.  He is one of Australia's most prolific birdwatchers and bird photographers. He has also been on the Management Committee on the Birds Australia Southern New South Wales and ACT Group (BASNA) for the last 6 years. Of Scandinavian and US parentage, he now lives in Sydney.

Wojciech Dabrowka has a special love of Asia and passion for the Himalayas where he works with ecotourism projects in Nepal and in Sikkim. He is also involved with bird conservation projects in Australia. Travelling after birds and visiting remote areas rarely explored has taken him to different corners of the World. He has travelled extensively throughout Middle East, North America, Australia, the islands of the South Pacific, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina and Brazil. He has also undertaken several long trips to Southern Africa. He has visited all the national parks in Eastern Poland, where his parents live. He is a trainer by profession and did his graduate studies at School for International Training in Vermont. He is an enthusiastic photographer.