May East is a Brazilian social change activist who has spent the last 30 years working internationally with music, indigenous people, women, antinuclear, environmental and sustainable human settlements movements. Since 1992 she has lived at the Findhorn ecovillage in Scotland where she is the Ecovillage Education Coordinator, the Director of International Relations between the Foundation, the Global Ecovillage Network and the United Nations. May is an educator and works internationally as an ecovillage consultant. She is the CEO of CIFAL Findhorn, a United Nations Associated Training Centre in Moray, Scotland.
	Craig Gibsone born in an isolated farm in Australia. He is a builder of practical organic structures, specialised in retrofitting houses to passive solar. He has lived for the last 36 years at the Findhorn Foundation where he was involved in the construction of many community buildings, including the Community Center and the Barrel Houses. He is an artist and musician and teaches in the International Holistic University. Craig works internationally as ecovillage building consultant.
	Jonathan Dawson is the new Executive Secretary of GEN-Europe (the Global Ecovillage Network). Before moving to he Findhorn ecovillage in 1999, he had spent the previous 15 years working as a socio-economist in local economic development initiatives in Africa and South Asia. A multi-linguist, he is an accomplished story-teller, telling tales from his native Ireland and from across the world.
	Michael Shaw's field is ecological design. He is a founding member of The Ecovillage Institute at Findhorn and is a resident Trustee of the Findhorn Foundation. He pioneered the Ten Stones ecovillage and cohousing community with others in Vermont, USA. An engineer by training, he has been involved in all phases of the development and implementation of natural wastewater treatment and bioremediation systems including Restorers since 1989 with Ocean Arks International (OAI). With Dr. John Todd, founder of OAI, he is the author of two wastewater treatment patents.
	Alex Walker is a financial consultant who has advised numerous community and environmental groups in the UK on the subjects of community ownership, renewable energy, and affordable housing. He is chairman of Ekopia Ltd., a community benefit co-operative that raises investment capital for various local projects, a board member of Findhorn Wind Park Ltd. and of Development Trusts Association Scotland and a member of the Moray Housing Partnership.
	Zoe Isaksen, BA (Hons) in Fine Art (Sculpture) Leeds University, was born and brought up in the Findhorn Foundation community. She has wide experience of holding Youth Experience Weeks and other youth workshops for the Findhorn Foundation. She returned to live in the community and work for the Foundation in early 2005, and is currently Administrator for Sustainability Education and part of the coordination team for the Ecovillage Training programme at the Findhorn ecovillage.
	Simon Richards is a qualified architect and is currently the chair of our internal planning committee, the Park Planning Group. After a successful career as a Director in one of the UK’s major commercial architectural practices, Simon joined the Findhorn community in 1993. He managed the maintenance department at Cluny Hill College and served on the Foundation's management team in 1994/95. From 1997 to the present he has been a co-Director of Eco-Village Ltd, taking a leading role in site planning and building design in the ongoing development of the Ecovillage at The Park.
	John Talbott has been the main individual responsible for the Ecovillage Project from its inception in 1982 to 2003, facilitating many community meetings and decision making processes in the ongoing development of The Park. John is a consulting engineer specialising in ecological building, renewable energy systems and infrastructure associated with the development of sustainable communities. He is the author of Simply Build Green, the UK's first technical manual on ecological building and his work continues to be inspired by the dream of the transformation of human settlements to integrated and diverse ecologies of cultural and ecological excellence. He is also an avid golfer, co-founder of Fairway to Heaven, a golf workshop which look at golf as a spiritual path to enlightenment. Currently he is on an extended leave with his wife Samantha in Sydney, Australia.

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