Maureen Maloney is professor emerita at Simon Fraser University’s school of public policy and previously served as chair in Law and Public Policy and director of the Institute for Dispute Resolution at the University of Victoria. During her years at the University of Victoria, Maureen served a term as deputy minister to the Attorney General (1993 to 2000) and deputy attorney general (1997 to 2000) of the Province of British Columbia. Before assuming these positions, Maureen was the first woman Dean of Law in British Columbia. She is a former board member of the International Commission of Jurists (Canadian Section) and a member of the Education and Training Committee of the Foundation for International Commercial Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution (The Hague). She was a board member of the Canadian Human Rights Foundation and of the International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy. She has also served as a member of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal based in Ottawa.

Heather McKay is a professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC) where she is the Active Aging Research Team lead scientist. She has collaborated with the BC Ministry of Health for over 15 years and currently leads a partnership between researchers, governments, health authorities and NGOs to enact Health Aging B.C. From 2006-2016, Heather was the inaugural director of Centre for Hip Health & Mobility, a multidisciplinary CFI centre funded by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation. More recently, she co-led UBC’s Health Aging Research Excellence cluster. Heather currently leads an Implementation Science Team at UBC. Her work focuses on healthy aging research. She also holds a position on the Editorial Board of the scientific journal, Implementation Research and Practice. She has received a CIHR Knowledge Translation Award, a YWCA Woman of Distinction Award and has been inducted into the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (2018) in recognition of her academic scholarship and community engagement.