John Beard
John Beard, MBBS PhD, is Director of the Department of Ageing and Life Course at the World Health Organization in Geneva. He works with all levels of government in the 193 WHO member states to build a sound evidence base on ageing related issues, and to develop policy, standards, interventions and tools that can help address the challenges, and realize the opportunities, of ageing populations. He is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Action Council on Ageing and the Advisory Board of the World Demographic & Ageing Forum.
John started his career with an Australian Aboriginal Medical Service, before holding a range of senior academic and public health roles in Australia and the United States. He remains remains actively involved in several large research studies, and has a particular interest in the influence of the physical, social and economic environments on the health of people of all ages. He is a member of the Advisory Boards of the Consortium on Health and Ageing: Network of Cohorts in Europe and the United States and the European Network for Action on Ageing and Physical Activity. He also retains links with the Australian 45 and Up study. John is a prominent international speaker, not just at meetings on ageing itself, but also at meetings that are exploring the future of society.

Professor John Campbell
Professor John Campbell is Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago and a consultant physician at Dunedin Hospital. He has been Dean of the University Faculty of Medicine and Chair of the Medical Council of New Zealand. He is Chair of the Ministerial Advisory Group on Veterans Health. He has investigated a number of clinical conditions important in old age. Most of his recent research has focused on fall and fracture epidemiology and prevention. His epidemiological studies of falls in older people in the 1980s were among the first to investigate this common problem and report the circumstances, consequences and factors related to falls. During the past 20 years he has led a series of clinical trials that tested effective strategies to prevent falls in older people living in the community. These include the Otago Exercise Programme for strength and balance retraining, home safety and behaviour modification for elderly people registered blind, and psychotropic drug withdrawal for those 65 years and over. Recent work on the increasing incidence of hip fracture in New Zealand emphasises the importance of these preventive measures. His current particular interest is fitting the effective interventions to the population most likely to benefit.

Professor Iris Chi
Professor Iris Chi was installed as the Chinese-American Golden Age Association/Frances Wu Chair for the Chinese Elderly in 2004 and currently directs the China Program. She also has a joint appointment in the University of Southern California Davis School of Gerontology. Prior to joining the USC School of Social Work, she taught at the University of Hong Kong for 17 years, in addition to chairing the postgraduate research programs and serving as the director of the Sau Po Centre on Aging. An expert in elderly health and gerontology, Dr. Chi has participated in more than 60 studies and published more than 150 articles on such topics as long-term care, mental health chronic illness, community service, social support, dementia, Parkinson's disease and minimum data set (MDS). She has also been involved in seven cross-national collaborative research projects. A career milestone came in 2004 when the city of Hong Kong honored Dr. Chi with the prestigious Bronze Bauhina Star for her public and community service with the city's aging population. She has also earned a Certificate of Merit for Housing Research from the Hong Kong Institute of Planners, the Outstanding Research in Gerontology Award from the Hong Kong Association of Gerontology and the Best Research of the Year Award from the Hong Kong College of General Practitioners. As a result of her extensive work and expertise, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government appointed her to the Elderly Commission, a post she held for seven years.

Professor Sung-Jae Choi
Dr. Sung-Jae Choi is Professor of Social Welfare at Seoul National University. He earned his Master of Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and his Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He served as Chairperson, Asia/Oceania Region, International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics during 2001-2005. He also served as the President of the Korean Council on Social Welfare Education, the President of the Korean Academy of Social Welfare, the President of the Korea Gerontological Society, and Editorial Board member of Australasian Journal on Ageing. He currently serves as Editorial Board member of Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work, Geriatrics and Gerontology International, and Asian Journal of Gerontology and Geriatrics. He is author and co-author of many books in social welfare and gerontology and published more than 100 papers in major journals and edited books in Korean and English.

Professor Kuo-Chin Huang
Professor Kuo-Chin Huang obtained his M.D. degree and PhD of Epidemiology from National Taiwan University (NTU), and received his post-doc training at Human Nutrition Unit of School of Molecular Bioscience in University of Sydney. He is the clinical professor in Department of Family Medicine, College of Medicine in NTU. He is the appointed director of Section of Preventive Medicine and also the attending physician of Department of Geriatric Medicine at NTU hospital. Over recent years, Professor Huang has been invited to devote his effort in the research of geriatric nutrition as the co-investigator at Division of Gerontology Research, National Health Research Institutes in Taiwan. His major research interest has mostly focused on human nutrition, obesity and its related diseases. Professor Huang is currently the president of Taiwan Medical Association for the Study of Obesity, chief editor of Taiwan Geriatrics & Gerontology, and associate editor of Obesity Research and Clinical Practice. Since August 2010, he has been elected as the president of Asia-Oceanic Association for the Study of Obesity and vice-president of International Association for the Study of Obesity.

Professor Graeme Hugo
Graeme HUGO is ARC Australian Professorial Fellow, Professor of the Department of Geographical and Environmental Studies and Director of the National Centre for Social Applications of Geographic Information Systems at the University of Adelaide. His research interests are in population issues in Australia and South East Asia, especially migration. He is the author of over three hundred books, articles in scholarly journals and chapters in books, as well as a large number of conference papers and reports. In 2002 he secured an ARC Federation Fellowship over five years for his research project, "The new paradigm of international migration to and from Australia: dimensions, causes and implications". His recent research has focused on migration and development, environment and migration and migration policy. In 2009 he was awarded an ARC Australian Professorial Fellowship over five years for his research project "Circular migration in Asia, the Pacific and Australia: Empirical, theoretical and policy dimensions".

Yun-Hee Jeon
Yun-Hee Jeon, PhD., is Associate Professor of Nursing at the Sydney Nursing School of the University of Sydney. Associate Professor Jeon is an experienced registered nurse and academic, and has worked in Korea and Australia. She is committed to promoting and supporting research concerned with prevention and management of chronic illness (PMCI) among older people within the primary health care context. Her aim is to develop and consolidate evidence in PMCI and inform practice and policy for older people affected by chronic illness. She has been involved in numerous local and international collaborative research projects on aged care, person centred care models and environments, the experience of chronic illness, aged care workforce, dementia outcome measures, family caregiving, respite care and cultural diversity in health care. She has received a number of national competitive grants. Her most recent achievement is in the Australian Research Council Linkage Grant Scheme where she is leading a ground-breaking study examining the effectiveness of a clinical leadership program on care quality and workforce retention in the aged care sector. She is a member of the nursing care node for the Primary Dementia Collaborative Research Centre and serves on its Advisory Committee. She has been an active member of Research Board of the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses Inc. and holds an Adjunct Professor position with the Ewha Women’s University in Seoul, South Korea.

Dr Dilip V Jeste
Dilip V. Jeste, M.D., is Estelle and Edgar Levi Chair in Aging, Director of the Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging, and Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He is also the Director of the Advanced Center for Innovation in Services and Intervention Research at UCSD, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and of the John A. Hartford Center of Excellence in Geriatric Psychiatry. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and of the National Advisory Mental Health Council of the National Institutes of Health. He is the Principal Investigator on several research and training grants from federal and non-federal sources (including Summer Research Institute in Geriatric Psychiatry, a national research training program). Dr. Jeste has published eight books and over 500 articles in peer-reviewed journals and books. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, and has also been on the editorial boards of several journals, including the American Journal of Psychiatry. He is in the ISI list of the "world's most cited authors"--comprising less than one half of one percent of all publishing researchers of the last two decades.

Professor Jian Li
Professor Jian Li is the Director of Beijing Institute of Geriatrics and the Dean of National Center for Elderly Health Care of China. He also served as the Director of Key Laboratory of Geriatrics, Ministry of Health, China. He earned his Ph.D. of Biochemistry from Geneva University in Switzerland. His major research interest has mostly focused on mechanisms of ageing and ageing-related diseases including diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Prof. Li has published over 30 articles in international journals including Mol Cell, J Cell Biol, Pro Nat1 Acad Sci USA, Cancer Res, Oncogene, Mol Biol Cell, J Biol Chem, PLos ONE, J Gerontology, Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab, FEBS Lett and FEBS J. He currently serves as the vice-president of Chinese Association for Lipid and Lipoprotein Research, Chinese Association for Geriatrics and Chinese Association for Atherosclerosis.

Professor Colin Masters
Professor Colin Masters B Med Sci (Hons), MBBS, MD, Hon.DLitt W.Aust., FRCPath, FRCPA, FAA, FTSE. Professor Colin Masters is a leader in research into Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disease, including Creutzfeldt-Jakob and other prion diseases, and his work over the last 35 years is widely acknowledged as having had a major influence on Alzheimer’s disease research world-wide. This work has led to the continued development of novel drugs and therapeutic strategies to treat these diseases. Professor Masters is currently the Director of the Mental Health Research Institute, and Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne. He is the Chair of the NHMRC’s Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Advisory Committee, a consultant in neuropathology at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and a scientific advisor to Neurosciences Australia. His achievements have been recognised by the receipt of many international awards - including the King Faisal International Prize in Medicine (1996), the Grand Hamdan International Award for Medical Sciences (2006) and the Victoria Prize from the Minister for Innovation (2007).

Professor Sang Chul Park
Dr. Sang Chul Park has received his M.D. and Ph.D degree from Seoul National University Medical School and has finished his postdoctorate fellowship at Earl Stadtman's Laboratory, NIH, USA. He is now professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Seoul National University Medical School, and Director of The Aging and Apoptosis Research Center sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology, and Director of Institute on Aging, Seoul National University and also the Director of WHO collaborating center for Physical Culture and Aging Research for Health Promotion. He has contributed a great deal in establishing and promoting many biomedical societies in Korea, serving as the presidents to Korean Society of Biomedical Gerontology, Federation of Korean Gerontological Societies, Korean Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Korean Society of Molecular and Cellular Biology, and International Association of Biomedical Gerontology. He has led many researches for metabolic and genetic regulatory system in relation with cancer and aging. Through his works, the possibility of functional recovery of the senescent cells through restoration of receptor-mediated endocytosis as well as the inevitable relation of aging and cancer via apoptosis has been suggested. Moreover, he has recently proposed the new hypothesis, the gate and barrier theory of aging, suggesting the restore principle for the aging control in contrast to the replace principle based on the deterministic view on aging. In addition to his academic achievement, he has been the pioneer to evoke the social concerns for aging problem in Korea. And his institute has initiated the Korean longitudinal study for aging and centenarian study with multidisciplinary collaborative teams. Throughout his endeavors, he focuses on developing the concept of Healthy, Dandy and Confident Aging for Functional Longevity. For his services, he has been awarded with many academic prizes and the Medal of Honor(Moran Jang) by President of Korea. He served as the Editor to Mechanisms of Ageing and Development and also the Regional Editor for Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology.

Professor Ng Tze Pin
Ng Tze Pin is a medically qualified epidemiologist and public health specialist. He is currently Associate Professor Fellow at the Department of Psychological Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National Univeristy of Singapore, where he is both Research Director of the Department’s psychiatric research programme, and the Gerontology Research Programme. http://medicine.nus.edu.sg/pcm/grp.htm; He is the Principal Investigator of the Singapore Longitudinal Ageing Studies (SLAS), which is systematically following a large population cohort of older adults in Singapore for research on ageing and health. He has published numerous research papers on gerontological subjects and is an Editorial Board member of Dementia and Geriatric Cogntive Disorders and other journals. He has provided consultancy services and was on the advisory panels and scientific working groups of a number of government and non-governmental organizations, and conducted numerous training courses, public lectures and talks on gerontological topics at many local and international meetings. He is also a visiting scientist at the Department of Pallative Medicine, National Cancer Centre and Visiting Consultant at Alexandra Hospital/ Khoo Teck Puat Hospital.

Professor Perminder S. Sachdev
Dr. Sachdev is Scientia Professor of Neuropsychiatry at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and Clinical Director of the Neuropsychiatric Institute (NPI) (www.med.unsw.edu.au/npi), The Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney, Australia. He graduated from the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi in 1978 and completed his MD in Psychiatry in 1983 at that institution before migrating to New Zealand. He then relocated to Australia where he completed his psychiatric training and PhD (1991) and went on to head the Neuropsychiatric Institute. His doctorate was on the ethnopsychological concepts in Maori culture. His early work in Neuropsychiatry was on drug-induced movement disorders, in particular akathisia, tardive dyskinesia and neuroleptic malignant syndrome. His most recent work has been in dementia and pre-dementia syndromes, in particular relating to neuroimaging, neuropsychology, biomarkers and risk factors. He has extensively examined the outcome of psychosurgery, and is currently involved in examining brain stimulation techniques (TMS, DCS and VNS) for psychiatric disorders. Dr. Sachdev is past-president of the International Neuropsychiatric Association and inaugural Chair of the Section of Neuropsychiatry of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists. He has published five books and over 350 papers in peer-reviewed journals. His most recent books are ‘The Yipping Tiger and other tales from the neuropsychiatric clinic’ and ‘Secondary Schizophrenia’. His H-index is 37, and total citations are over 5000. He was awarded the 2010 NSW Scientist of the Year for Biomedical Sciences. He currently holds, as first chief investigator, a National Health & Medical Research Council Program Grant, an Ageing Well-Ageing Productively Program Grant and a NHMRC Capacity Building Grant in addition to many other grants. He heads the Brain and Ageing Research Program of the University of New South Wales: www.brainage.med.unsw.edu.au. He was appointed Member of the Order of Australia in 2011.

Kenji Toba
Born in 1951 in Matsumoto city close to the Japan Alps. Graduated from the Tokyo University, 1978. Associated Professor of the Tokyo University 1994-2000. Professor and Chairman of Department of Geriatrics, Kyorin University School of Medicine 2000-2010. Director of the hospital, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, 2010~ (current position). Director of the Center for Comprehensive Care and Research on Memory Disorders (C3RMD), 2010~(current position). Board Member of the Japan Geriatric Society, Japan Gerontological Society, Japan Dementia Society, Japan Osteoporosis Society. Specific interest in Dementia, Fall, Frailty, and Geriatric Syndrome. Has received the Japan Geriatric Society, Excellent Paper Award (2000, 2005) and the Japan Osteoporosis Society Award (2004).

Professor Tetsuo Tsuji
Professor of the Institute of Gerontology, the University of Tokyo Former Administrative Vice Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare. Professor Tetsuo Tsuji entered the Ministry of Health and Labour (the current Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) after graduating the Faculty of Law, the University of Tokyo, in 1971. In the Ministry, he accumulated careers as: Director of the Division of the Welfare for the Elderly, the Health and Welfare Bureau for the Elderly, Director of the National Health Insurance Division, the Health Insurance Bureau, Councillor for the Minister’s office (in charge of health insurance and healthcare policies), Director- General, Director General of the Health Insurance Bureau, Administrative Vice Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, among others. He is currently serving as the professor of the Institute of Gerontology, the University of Tokyo. He was involved in the healthcare reform process during his tenure in the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. He authored Vision of Japan’s Healthcare Reform.