S. Tamer Cavusgil is University Distinguished Faculty and The John W. Byington Endowed Chair in Global Marketing at Michigan State University. He also serves as the Executive Director of MSU-CIBER. Dr. Cavusgil specializes in international marketing strategy, early internationalization, and emerging markets. He is the author of several books and over 100 refereed articles. Doing Business in Emerging Markets (Sage Publications, 2002) is his most recent contribution. He is also the author of several computer-aided diagnostic tools for managers, including CORE V, COmpany Readiness to Export. He served as the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Marketing, published by the American Marketing Association. Cavusgil is the Associate Editor-in Chief, Journal of International Business Studies, and Editor of Elsevier book series, Advances in International Marketing.

Margo Glew is coordinator of the Less Commonly Taught Languages Program at Michigan State University, and as such, develops and promotes the instruction of less commonly taught languages. She has extensive experience as a language teacher and teacher trainer, working on materials development projects for various world languages as well as directing and co-directing training workshops and seminars for teachers. Her current research focuses on language program development as well as distance learning of the LCTLs. Dr. Glew received an M.A. in teaching English as a second language and a Ph.D. in second language acquisition from Michigan State University.

Michael Lewis is Director of MSU's Asian Studies Center and Professor in the Department of History. He holds a Ph.D. in History from Stanford University; and M.A. degrees in Asian Studies and History from both Stanford University and Claremont Graduate School. His scholarly work focuses on the social history of state formation in modern Japan. In past and present positions, he has taken an active role in developing new foreign language learning programs and improving existing efforts. At MSU, he has led in developing a new program in Asian LCTLs, one funded with U.S. Department of Education support through the Title VI program. He is interested in integrating new methods to assess language learning success among students. Lewis has served as Resident Director of studies centers in Japan (twice as Resident Director of the Japan Center for Michigan Universities [JCMU] in Hikone and once as Director of the Konan-Illinois Program, administered by a consortium including MSU, University of Hawai'i, and University of Illinois in Kobe).

Nancy Marino is a Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Her scholarship focuses on Late Medieval Spanish literature, especially the intersection of history and literature, a combination for which her work is known. She has taught classes at all levels. Service has always been an important component of her career. She has served as Department Chair, Acting Chair (twice), Associate Chair (twice), as well as both Undergraduate and Graduate Advisor.

David Prestel is Professor of Russian and Chair of the Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages. He coordinated the Russian language program at MSU from 1983 to 2000, as well as instruction in Polish and Bulgarian (1997-2000). He has served on the CASID Advisory Committee, the Advisory Committee of the Center for European and Russian Studies and was Acting Director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies in 1995. He is currently Co-Director of the Civil Engineering Study Abroad Program in Volgograd, Russia and serves on the Area Studies Review Steering Committee and the CLEAR Advisory Committee. From 2001 to 2003 he was president of the Early Slavic Studies Association. His research interests include Early Slavic Studies and Russian language pedagogy.

Jeffrey Riedinger is Acting Dean of International Studies & Programs, Director of the Center for Advanced Study of International Development, and Professor in the Department of Community, Agriculture, Recreation and Resource Studies at Michigan State University. As a comparative political scientist, Dr. Riedinger has a developing area focus, with special emphasis on Southeast and East Asia. His work applies theories of political economy and state-society relations to problems of economic development. Dr. Riedinger is particularly interested in the way that political liberalization and democratization reforms affect the distribution of economic assets such as land, and in the role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the formulation and implementation of development policies. He seeks to draw attention to the importance of political institutions and political processes in determining who benefits and who is harmed during the development of poor countries. He holds an MA and Ph.D. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs at Princeton University.