LORNA COLLINS Associate Head of Department, UG Marketing and Enterprise Programmes, and the leader of the Family Business Research Cluster and also the Social Enterprise and Innovation Research Cluster at Bristol Business School, UK. She is also co-founder of the UK Family Business Alliance and the Association of Family Business Educators and is the co-editor of the Journal of Family Business Management. LOUISE GRISONI Head of the Department for Business and Management at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Louise is an academic based in Oxford and is a specialist in organizational behaviour and organization studies. She is a member of the Bristol Centre for Innovation and Enterprise, Family Business Research Cluster. JOHN TUCKER one of the leading experts in the field of family business in the UK. He is a Director of the International centre for Families in Business and a Senior Lecturer in Family Business at the University of the West of England. John is the founder of the UK's first MBA for Family Business and the UK's first Post-Graduate Certificate in Family Business Advising.

CLAIRE SEAMAN Senior Lecturer at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh,UK,where she co-founded the Scottish Forum for Family Business Research and works closely with the Scottish Family Business Association. She has published extensively in the area of family business, including work on the strategies family businesses adopt to access networks, family businesses within Scotland's minority ethnic communities and the manner in which family businesses contribute to strategies for economic growth and development. STUART GRAHAM Senior academic member within the Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, cognate division of Business, Enterprise and Management. Stuart is also the co-founder of the Scottish Forum for Family Business Research. REBECCA FAKOUSSA currently writing her doctoral thesis and is a PhD researcher at Southampton Business School, UK. Her main research interests are cross culture issues for family businesses, women and Boards of Directors in family businesses. DOMINIQUE OTTEN currently writing her doctoral thesis at the 'Witten Institute for Family Businesses' in Germany as part of a research project investigating 'women in family businesses'. Her research focuses in particular on the role of the daughters.