Thomas R. Miller is senior partner in the law firm of Miller & Ngo. Specializing in providing legal services to Asian refugee communities from Viet?Nam, Laos & Cambodia, Miller was the first U.S. attorney to open a post?war office in Viet?Nam, providing business and legal assistance to foreign firms doing business in Viet?Nam. Miller is co?founder and president of the International Children's Fund, Inc., a non?profit medical relief organization providing assistance to Vietnam and other Third World countries. He also is Director of the Association for Fair Trade with Cuba where he provides business and legal assistance with respect to Cuba as well aiding the establishment of U.S. educational programs in Cuba. Miller also co-founded California Beer Works and Bison Brewing Company, a successful micro?brewery in Berkeley, California. Miller has also served as a consultant for the late Senator Robert Kennedy, UNICEF, the Peace Corps, and various public interest research organizations. Presently Miller sits on the board of Global Exchange, and serves as pro bono legal counsel to non-profit institutions including Global Exchange, The South & Meso American Indian Rights Center ("SAIIC"), and Cuban-American Alliance Education Fund and to La Pena Cultural Center. He has had articles published in The San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune Syndicate, and The Christian Science Monitor. Thomas R. Miller is a graduate of Yale University, Stanford Law School, and Columbia University's Parker School of Foreign & Comparative Law. He is also a member of the New York and California Bars.

Kristin Burgess is a Management Analyst for the Oakland Police Department, where she provides analytical support to the Executive Management. Kristin received her B.S. in Biological Sciences from the University of California at Davis and her Masters in Public Administration from San Francisco State University. During the last ten years, she has worked primarily in the public and nonprofit sectors, gaining experience in administration, management, and research and policy analysis. She worked with the Nautilus Institute for three years as the Special Projects Coordinator and as the Executive Assistant to the Executive Director. While she was with Nautilus, she coordinated fundraising efforts and assisted with organizational development. Kristin also worked with the City of Berkeley to develop an equal benefits ordinance, which was adopted by the City Council in 2001.

Peter Hayes is Executive Director of the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development, a non-governmental policy-oriented research and advocacy group. Peter graduated with degree in History from the University of Melbourne. He has a doctorate from the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California at Berkeley. Professionally active as an environment and energy consultant in developing countries (working for United Nations Environment Programme, Asian Development Bank, World Bank, Canadian International Development Research Council, US Agency for International Development, United Nations Development Programme), he also writes widely about security affairs in the Asian-Pacific region. He was first executive director of the Environment Liaison Centre in Nairobi, Kenya in 1974-76. He was Deputy Director of the Commission for the Future (Australian Government) from 1989-1991. He has visited the DPRK seven times. He is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy, the Western partner of the Council on Foreign Relations; and the US Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2000.

Ove M. Wittstock Since retiring as Executive Director of the Berkeley Boosters Association, a not-for profit California Corporation, in April 2002, Mr. Wittstock has been the Program Director of the Berkeley Guides, the BART Safety Escort program and the RESPECT safety officers who provide supervision of the after-school programs at Berkeley's three middle schools. All three programs are part of the Berkeley Boosters. The Berkeley Boosters, co-founded by Wittstock in 1983 as a volunteer organization, received extensive recognition under Wittstock's leadership including 3 Governor's Crime Preventions Awards for outstanding work with young people and Certificates of Recognition from Mayors Lori Hancock and Shirley Dean. From 1987 to 2002, Wittstock served on the board of California Police Activities League and, for last 10 years, as treasurer of that organization while the budget grew from $1,000 annually to over $3 million. In 1996, Wittstock received the Community Service Award from the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce. Wittstock has served on a number of City Commissions: Economic Development (Member), Police Review (Member), Human Relations (President), Budget Review (President), Personnel (Member). He has also served as Vice President of the Chamber of Commerce, President of the Sather Gate Merchants Association, board member of the Street Work Project (BOSS), and member of the Telegraph Avenue Concerns Committee by the City Council. He is co-founder of the Berkeley Free Church. Wittstock was born and raised in Zurich, Switzerland and has a BA in Business Administrations from the University of Cambridge and an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh.