Daniel Ansari is an assistant professor and Canada Research Chair in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (Tier II) in the Department of Psychology and Graduate Program in Neuroscience University of Western Ontario.

Professor Mahesh Sharma is the founder and President of the Center for Teaching/Learning of Mathematics, Inc., of Wellesley and Framingham, Massachusetts, and Berkshire Mathematics in England. Berkshire Mathematics facilitates his work in the UK and Europe. He is the former President and Professor of Mathematics Education at Cambridge College, where for more than thirty-five years, he taught mathematics and mathematics education to undergraduate and graduate students. He is internationally known for his groundbreaking work in mathematics learning problems and education, particularly dyscalculia and other specific learning disabilities in mathematics. He is an author, teacher and teacher-trainer, researcher, consultant to public and private schools, as well as a public lecturer.

John Mighton is a mathematician, author, playwright, and the founder of JUMP Math. He completed a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Toronto and was awarded a fellowship for postdoctoral research in knot and graph theory. He is currently a fellow at the Fields Institute for Mathematical Research and an Adjunct Professor of math at the University of Toronto. All of this, after almost failing first-year university Calculus. John believes that everyone has great mathematical potential, and that there are more connections between the arts and sciences than people think. He started JUMP to foster numeracy and build young children’s self-confidence.