David Ellis has been Director of the University of Sydney's public museums since 2003, and is overseeing the opening of the Chau Chak Wing Museum in 2020. Previously he was program manager for museums at Arts NSW, director of exhibitions at the National Library of Australia and project manager for international touring exhibitions at the International Cultural Corporation of Australia. As an artist he has works in state and national collections.

Michael Jackson, who died in 2007, is considered one of the most important and influential writers on whisky, and was a well-known television and media personality.

He wrote many books on the subject, as well as on other drinks. He was made a Master of the Quaich, an honour given to those whose have made an outstanding contribution to the whisky industry.

Edward Carey was born in Norfolk, England. He is a novelist, visual artist and has also written and directed a number of plays for the National Theatre of Romania and the Vilnius Small State Theatre, Lithuania. In England his plays and adaptations have been performed at the Young Vic Studio, the Battersea Arts Centre, and the Royal Opera House Studio.

He is the author of the novels Observatory Mansions, Alva and Irva, and the acclaimed YA series The Iremonger Trilogy, which has been published in thirteen countries and has been optioned for film adaptation.

After university, Edward worked at Madame Tussaud in London, preventing people from touching the waxworks, and it was there that he learnt the incredible story of the museum's founder. Edward lives in Austin, Texas in the United States, and teaches at the University of Austin.