Robert McLeod is currently Managing Partner of Arthur Andersen (New Zealand), one of the "big five" international accounting firms, a member of the Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICANZ), a former chair of the ICANZ National Tax Committee, a Treaty of Waitangi Fisheries Commissioner and a member of the Business Roundtable. He was a member of the Valabh Tax Review Committee in the early 1990s and of Sir Ivor Richardson's 1994 Review of Inland Revenue. Of Ngati Porou descent, he is an advisor to a number of Maori organisations.

Srikanta Chatterjee

Srikanta Chatterjee is a Professor of Economics at Massey University. He has a doctorate from the London School of Economics and has taught in Australia, Fiji, India, Japan and Britain. His teaching and research interests include income distribution and inequality and international trade and finance. He has consultancy experience nationally and internationally in these issues and in economic reform.

Shirley Jones is a Partner in the accountancy firm S D & N S Jones. She has had a significant involvement with a large number of professional and community organisations. Mrs Jones is currently Chair of the Otago Polytechnic Council and a member of the Board of Presbyterian Support Otago. She is a former member of the Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICANZ), a former director of the Accident Compensation Corporation and Trust Bank Otago Limited and was the first chair of Workbridge Incorporated. She has also served as a member of the Working Party on Institutional Frameworks for the reform of Tertiary Education and the review working party of I.H.C (Inc.).

David Patterson is a Partner with the commercial law firm Rudd Watts and Stone. One of the leading tax lawyers in New Zealand, he specialises in advising on the structuring and taxation of commercial transactions. He was a member of the Tax Education Office from 1993 until its operations ceased in 1998. He was an attorney with Davis Polk and Wardwell, New York (1985 - 1989) and Paris (1990), and is a member of the New Zealand Law Society and of the International Fiscal Association.

Ted Sieper has lectured in economics at the Australian National University, Massey University and Rochester University (N.Y.). He has been an Associate Commissioner of the Australian Productivity Commission (previously the Industries Commission), an advisor to the Australian Treasury, an adviser to the Australian Campbell Committee on financial reform in the mid-1980s and, since the mid-1980s, has advised the New Zealand IRD and Treasury on taxation economics.