Marco Musiani is an associate professor of landscape ecology at the University of Calgary and is also affiliated with the University of Montana. He was born in Rome, the city of the famous she-wolf, and has conducted research and published internationally on wolf management.

Luigi Boitani is the head of the Department of Animal and Human Biology at the University of Rome and a leading authority on wolves. He has conducted an extended series of research and conservation projects on the Italian wolf population, which has recovered dramatically in the last thirty years.

Paul Paquet is an adjunct professor with the faculties of Biology and Environmental Design at the University of Calgary. He has studied wolves for more than thirty-five years and is considered an authority on carnivore ecology.