Michelle Mycoo is an Urban Planner and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geomatics Engineering and Land Management, the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. She holds a Ph.D. from the School of Urban Planning, McGill University, Canada, a M.Sc. in Urban Planning, University of Hong Kong and a BA in Geography and Social Sciences from the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. She has published numerous papers and several book chapters in referred journals and has produced training manuals and several technical reports.

Dr. Michael Sutherland holds an M.Sc.E. and Ph.D. in Geomatics Engineering from the University of New Brunswick, Canada specializing in land information management and GIS. He previously held post-doctoral positions at the University of Ottawa and Dalhousie University, Canada where he did GIS research in relation to multi-criteria decision analysis supporting socioeconomic and environmental phenomena. Dr. Sutherland is a member of the Canadian Institute of Geomatics and the Institute of Surveyors of Trinidad and Tobago, and is an elected member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. He is also an Associate of the Canadian Fisheries, Oceans, and Aquaculture Management (C-FOAM) research group, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Canada. Dr. Sutherland is a lecturer, and the Programme Coordinator of the B.Sc. in Land Management Programme in the Department of Geomatics Engineering and Land Management, University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. At UWI, St. Augustine, he is also an Honorary Fellow of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies. Michael is currently Chair of Commission 4, International Federation of Surveyors.