1. Professor of Psychiatry and Director, Division of Psychiatric Epidemiology and International Center for Mental Health, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York University, New York, New York; President of the World Psychiatric Association 2005-2008; Honorary Chair, Section on Classification and Diagnostic Assessment, World Psychiatric Association; President of the International Network for Person-centered Medicine, New York, New York
2. Professor of Psychiatry, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida; Chair, Section on Classification, Diagnostic Assessment and Nomenclature, World Psychiatric Association
3. Wallace Renard Professor of Psychiatry, Genetics, and Psychology; Director, Center for Wellbeing, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri
4. Professor of Psychiatry, University of Cadiz, Cadiz, Spain; Head of the Research Unit, Fundació Villablanca, Reus, Spain; Secretary, Section on Classification, Diagnostic Assessment and Nomenclature, World Psychiatric Association
5. James McGill Professor and Director, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
6. Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
7. Visiting Fellow, Centre for Mental Health Recovery, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, England; Honorary Fellow, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England
8. President, World Psychiatric Association French Member Societies Association; Associate Professor, School of Psychology, Catholic University of Paris, Paris, France; Consultant on Juvenile Justice to the Ministry of Justice, Paris, France