Marian is a Professor of Stroke Care and Rehabilitation and directs the stroke rehabilitation research programme at the Scottish Government funded Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions Research Unit at Glasgow Caledonian University. An experienced speech and language therapist, she worked in community and hospital settings in Ireland and Scotland before leaving as a senior stroke rehabilitation specialist to complete her PhD at the University of Strathclyde. She chairs the IALP Aphasia Committee and the Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists (funded by the Tavistock Trust for Aphasia, UK). She is a member of the Cochrane Stroke and Aphasiology editorial boards.

Karen is a speech-language therapist and kaupapa Māori researcher at The University of Auckland. In 2020, she completed an Eru Pōmare research fellowship in Māori health, funded by the Health Research Council of New Zealand. She is currently working as a senior research fellow on a project titled “ACCESS: Accessing Cardiovascular Care for Equity Studies”.

José is Professor in the Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology Program in the Department of Rehabilitation and Movement Sciences, Rutgers School of Health Professions, USA. He conducts research that responds to the clinical needs of the growing ethnoracially diverse geriatric populations with chronic age-related disabilities. His research is at the intersection of neurolinguistic theory, aphasia services, and ethnogerontology. José specifically conducts research in post-stroke aphasia in bilingual Spanish-English speakers and clinical management of communicatively-impaired ethnogeriatric neurorehabilitation caseloads. He has participated in national and international professional committees in aphasia and multicultural issues.

Bronwyn is the past-chair of the IALP aphasia committee. She holds an interest in the development of services for people with aphasia in majority world countries. She has extensive clinical and academic experience in speech-language pathology, having worked in Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Bronwyn completed her PhD at the University of Queensland, Australia in 2004, and was appointed Associate Professor in Speech Pathology at the University of Melbourne in 2011.

Laura is a Professor in and Director of the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Western Ontario. She previously was a Professor at Indiana University in the U.S.A., where she started the Indiana University Aphasia Support Group. Prior to her academic positions, Laura worked as a speech-language pathologist in both rural school and urban hospital settings in Canada. Inspired by questions she had when providing clinical services to people with aphasia, she left her clinical position to complete her PhD at the University of Arizona. Her research interests include examining how cognitive factors may interact with the language abilities of adults with aphasia or with other acquired communication disorders, and developing assessment and treatment strategies for these individuals.

Abena is a speech and language therapist at the Korle-Bu teaching hospital, Ghana. She is a recent graduate of the novel speech and language therapy programme in Ghana. She is keen on raising professional and public awareness on aphasia in Ghana. Abena aims to improve the knowledge of people with aphasia, family members and friends about aphasia in a bid to reduce communication barriers and encourage social participation.

Roxele is a speech therapist, professor and researcher at the University IELUSC, Joinville, Brazil. She received her doctorate in Communication Disorders from the Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil and followed the Center of Excellence in Research in Rehabilitation and Recovery from Aphasia(CRE) under the guidance of Miranda Rose in 2019. Roxele participates in the group Rehabilitation and recovery of people with aphasia after Stroke (RELEASE) as a collaborator. She leads group therapy for people with aphasia at the University IELUSC. She is a member of the Brazilian Society of Speech Therapy in Brazil.

Miranda is Professor of Speech Pathology and directs the National Health and Medical Research Council funded Centre for Research Excellence in Aphasia Recovery and Rehabilitation based at La Trobe University. Miranda worked in hospital and rehabilitation settings in Australia before joining the academic staff at La Trobe University and completing her PhD in 2001. She leads the Effectiveness of Aphasia Interventions Working Group of the Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists (funded by the Tavistock Trust for Aphasia, UK) and co-founded Aphasia Community, a web based link to aphasia support groups in Australia. She is a member of the editorial boards for both Aphasiology and Evidence-Based Communication Assessment and Intervention.

Angelika is a Graduate Assistant, PhD student for Professor Dr. Erich Hartmann at the Department of Speech Language Therapy of the Department for Special Education of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Angelika graduated in Speech Language Therapy in 1991 at the Speech Language Therapy institute of the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. She then studied with Professor Walter Huber as a lecturer and research Speech Language Therapist at the RWTH Aachen University, where she studied abroad at Trinity College Dublin and wrote her diploma thesis on the subject of the Landau-Kleffner Syndrome. Angelika gained professional experience in institutions in the areas of child language and neurorehabilitation. She is a pioneer for the academisation of Speech Language Therapy in Austria and played a major role in this development. Her areas of special interest in SLT/SLP include aphasia in childhood and adulthood as well as developmental language disorders. She was responsible for Austria’s participation in the EU project Net Ques under the leadership of the European Speech Language Therapy association CPLOL. She is writing her doctoral thesis on the therapy of children with aphasia.

Annette is a speech-language therapist who practices in healthcare and stroke rehabilitation and is the current President of the New Zealand Speech-Language Therapists’ Association. Advocacy and bringing the consumer voice to forefront of clinical practice and research are priorities for Annette in her roles in the profession of speech-language therapy. She has been instrumental in the establishment of long-term aphasia support networks in New Zealand. She is currently undertaking a PhD in the area of couple conversation in aphasia and the development of a patient reported outcome measure (PROMs).

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