Edward Shalala served as head of Constitutional Assembly Community Liaison Department (CLD) from September 1994 – May 1996. He holds BA (Hons), LLB, LLM in the areas of Law and Political Science and studied at the University of Cape Town, University of the Western Cape, and St Johns Christian Brothers College.

Synnøve Skjelten moved to South Africa in the early 1990s. She is the author of A People's Constitution: Public Participation in the South African Constitution-making Process (Institute for Global Dialogue, 2006). She has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Oslo, Norway and a Master’s in Political Science from the University of Cape Town in 1999.