Jakub Leps has been the IPD Group's editorial director since 2000, managing a team of experienced staff editors with expertise in international politics, business, health, music industry and many other areas. He holds a BA in Economics and a Master's Degree in American Studies from Charles University, Prague, as well as a Master's Degree in Political Science from Central European University, Budapest. Having been granted a Fulbright research scholarship, he spent one year at Georgia Tech's Sam Nunn School of International Affairs. He has taught an MA course on China in American Foreign Policy at Charles University and has published articles on Sino-American and Sino-Russian relations.

Joe Rothstein is editor of U.S. Politics Today. His career in politics spans 35 years, as a strategist and media producer in more than 200 campaigns for political office and for many political causes. He was one of the pioneers in professional political consulting and one of the founding members of the American Association of Political Consultants. He also is adjunct professor of political science at George Washington University's graduate school for political management and a member of both the International Association of Political Consultants and the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. where he lives. Mr. Rothstein has a master's degree in journalism from UCLA, and served for five years as editor of the Pulitzer Prize winning Anchorage Daily News. He also served as chief of staff for the governor of Alaska and later for an Alaska U.S. senator.

Kathryn Leonhardy is editor of Healthcare Industry Today. She also serves as the Interim Associate Dean of Academic Affairs in the School of Nursing and Health Studies at Georgetown University and has an appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Health. She holds a baccalaureate degree in studio art from Gettysburg College and a Master's degree in community health nursing and a Doctor of Philosophy in nursing, both from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Leonhardy completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the World Health Organization in Geneva,Switzerland in health services focusing on issues related to building capacity among nursing and midwifery personnel globally and examining the migration of health personnel. Her recent publications have focused on capacity building in nursing and midwifery and on the need for more research on health personnel in Latin America. She is currently conducting research on the recruitment of foreign-educated nurses into the U.S. healthcare system. She has lived and worked in a variety of developing and developed countries and has worked on health issues ranging from HIV to Hansen's Disease. She has been particularly committed to improving the health of underserved populations.

Tracy Dove is editor of The Russia News Service and writes a thrice-weekly column called The Naked Historian that focuses on the history behind the headlines. After completing a Bachelor's Degree in European History at George Mason University in 1986, he went to Germany to pursue graduate studies in Russian history at the Freie Universitaet in West Berlin. Tracy Dove witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War first hand; he worked as a translator for CBS News in Berlin in 1989 and as a producer for NBC News at the Moscow bureau in 1992. He finished his PhD in 1998 and began teaching history in various cities- including Buenos Aires, Prague and Moscow. Currently he is Dean of Summer Programs for the Lessing Institute and teaches history at the Anglo-American College in Prague. He is married to a Czech woman and has two children.

Al Jaeger, editor of Agriculture Industry Today, is a public policy consultant in Bozeman, Montana, specializing in rural and agriculture issues. His firm, G2, llc, develops strategy for farm and ranch groups, sustainable agriculture programs, water use technology and Green Growth developments. Jaeger spent 25 years in government including leadership positions at USDA, congressional and legislative consulting and Campaign consulting. He participated in the G8 and WTO negotiations as part of the Clinton Administration and served as a counselor to the Secretary of Agriculture.

Gary Arlen, editor of Technology Today, is President of Arlen Communications Inc., a Washington-area research firm specializing in converging technology and policy developments. For more than two decades, Gary’s insights on new technology and services have offered early previews of what’s important to business and tech planners, ranging from telecommunications and information technology to intellectual property. Gary has created and published trade newsletters and on-going analytical commentaries for telecom/media periodicals; his views are widely quoted in business and consumer media. For more than 25 years, Gary has conducted extensive research on business development and customer acceptance of new telecom/media technologies. He has edited and published several forward-looking newsletters about telecom and technology. He received his masters’ degree in Journalism from Northwestern University.