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.

Staff member in the Public Participation Programme and the Community Liaison Department of the Constitutional Assembly from 1994 to 1997. Within this role, Mr Govender was the Head of Publications and Communications, editor of the Constitutional Talk Newsletter, and Manager for Publications and Resources for the post-adoption media campaign for the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996