Ian Press is Professor Emeritus in the School of Modern Languages at the University of Saint Andrews, UK.

Olha Volosova teaches Ukrainian at SSEES UCL Short Language Courses and in the Ukrainian Institute in London, UK. She has been teaching Ukrainian since 1991, including teaching it as a foreign language in England since 2006 (University of Birmingham, UK).

Stefan Pugh was Professor and Chair of Modern Languages at Wright State University, USA.