Dr. Nguyen graduated from the University of Western Australia in 1978 with a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering and from the University of Sydney in 1987 with a Ph.D. degree in Environmental Science. He worked for Time Office Computers as a software engineer before joining the NSW State Pollution Control Commission (SPCC) as a statistician. In 1992, he supervised the air quality computer network and the air quality database and actively involved in the air quality data interpretation and research program; the research program was funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC) Grant in collaboration with the University of Technology in Queensland and the CSIRO Division of Coal Technology at North Ryde. Since 1997, Dr. Nguyen has been working for the Department of Environment and Conservation, Australia, as a senior atmospheric scientist.

Dr. Dam received a Bachelor of Science degree with First Class Honors from the College of Science/Vietnam National University of Hanoi, Vietnam in 2001. He received the Awards from Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training for "Students Research Project" in 2000 and 2001. He completed his Ph.D. in 2006 in Sedimentology and Marine Geology from the Greifswald University. Dr. Dam is currently a lecturer and researcher in Lithology & Marine Geology at Hanoi University of Science, Hanoi National University.

Ms. Nguyen Minh Thuy received a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry and Mathematics from Mary Washington College in Virginia, USA in 1977, and a Master of Science degree in Chemistry from the University of Delaware in 1979. She worked as a laboratory supervisor for Sun Oil Refining and Marketing Company, Pennsylvania, and as a laboratory manager for American Environmental Network, Inc. in Maryland. Ms. Nguyen is currently a senior scientist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington D.C., USA.

Ms. Doduc currently serves as the Chairwoman of the State Water Resources Control Board of California, USA. She most recently was a Deputy Secretary at the California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA), where she directed the agency's environmental justice and external scientific peer review activities. Ms. Doduc has an extensive background in providing technical and business assistance to environmental technology developers and manufacturers, serving in the Office of Environmental Technology and, later, as Cal/EPA's Assistant Secretary for Technology Certification and as Cal/EPA’s Assistant Secretary for Agriculture, Air and Chemical Programs.