Alfonso Soria
Conservationist; member of AEMS-Rios con Vida (Spain); developer of educational programs
Össur Skarphéðinsson
Member of Icelandic Parliament; former Foreign Minister; author of The Dance of the Big Trout
Hans van Klinken
Retired from the Royal Dutch Army Gunnery School; workshops in fly tying and fly fishing; outdoor journalist and photographer
Iraj Hashemzadeh
Fish molecular Shahr-e-Kord University (Iran) – fish phylogenetics, ichthyology, conservation genetics; conservation genetic study of brown trout
Aleš Snoj
Chair of Genetics, Biotechnology and Immunology – Department of Animal Science, University of Ljubljana; Balkan Trout Restoration Group
Zeb Hogan
Aquatic ecologist; associated research professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, Dept. of Natural Resources and Environmental Science; Megafishes project; Monsterfish (National Geographic Channel)
Jörg Freyhof
Research scientist at IGB and ZFMK; authority on biodiversity, taxonomy, evolution and ecology of freshwater fishes; European chair of the IUCN SSC/WI Freshwater Fish Specialist group
Helgi Gudbrandsson
Manager of Fishing Iceland Fly Fishing Travel; Continental Trout – Iceland; professional angling guide
John Zablocki
Biologist and coordinator of Trout Unlimited’s Lahontan Cutthroat Trout Recovery Initiative; professional working experience in Europe/Balkan
Johannes Schöffmann
“The masters without a Masters”, researcher and publicist; author of Trout of the Genus Salmo: Diversity and Distribution