Terry D. Royce is Executive Director at Forlingua Forensic Linguistic Services Pty. Ltd. and Yunshan Chair Professor at the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China.

Wendy L. Bowcher is Honorary Professor at Macquarie University, Australia. She previously held positions at Sun Yat-sen University and Tokyo Gakugei University and has worked as a consultant forensic linguist in Australia.

Jing Zhao is Professor of Linguistics at Sun Yat-sen University, China.