Kwok Kian Chow is the Director of Singapore's new National Art Gallery, a large-scale museum that is currently being built. It hopes to house the most comprehensive collection of South East Asian modern and contemporary art and will join other big art museums in Asia contributing to a global discourse on modernism and trans-local art developments. Kwok was the founding Director of the Singapore Art Museum (1994 - 2009), which initiated Singapore's participation in international biennales and in significant historical overviews of modern and contemporary art in South East Asia, as well as major exhibitions on India, China, France and other countries. Kwok's research interest covers topics pertaining to modernism and museology. His publications include Channels and Confluences: A History of Art in Singapore (1996) and Dongnanya Xiandai Meishu (Modern Art in Southeast Asia) [2007], and numerous essays and conference papers. Kwok played a key role in helping form the first association of art museums in Asia - the Asian Art Museum Directors' Forum (AAMDF). He is a board member of the ICOM International Committee of Modern Art Museums and Collections (CIMAM). His was recently awarded the honour Officier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Catnilla R. Nielsen was born in Texas, USA, and lives in Vienna, Austria. She has studied languages, philosophy and contemporary history and works as translator and interpreter. She also lectures at the University of Vienna.

Saskia Miller recently completed her MA in Cinema Studies and Communications/ Journalism from the Free University of Berlin. In her MA dissertation and during her undergraduate studies at New York University, she examined the phenomenon of Cross-Cultural Communication in Film. In 2003, Miller founded CultCollect, an organization dedicated to facilitating cross-cultural communication through the arts. Miller works as a freelance journalist and actress, and co-ordinates cultural events and university seminars. She has contributed to the UNDPI Art for the World catalogue, the Berliner Gazette, and created a radio program for a Documenta Kassel project in 2007. She is currently a contributor to the travel blog Gridskipper. Miller is based in New York.

Shanay Jhaveri graduated from Brown University in 2007 with a concentration in Art - Semiotics and the History of Art and Architecture. He is currently a research fellow at the Royal College of Art, London, where he is engaged in understanding the contemporary relevance of the translator. Jhaveri has edited a volume of essays titled Outsider Films on India: 1950 - 1990 (The Shoestring Publisher, 2009), and published articles in Marg, ArtAsiaPacific, Wallpaper* and 032c. He now divides his time between Mumbai and London.