NEALL ELLIS
Neall Ellis grew up in Rhodesia. He spent a brief period in the Rhodesian Army, and eventu- ally joined the South African Air Force. After leaving the South African Air Force in 1992 he returned to civilian life but found himself rather bored and he decided to go back to flying helicopters.

Already established as somewhat of a legend in the military helicopter community his first freelance contract took him to Bosnia. It was short-lived but he was soon to join Executive Outcomes in Sierra Leone for one year in 1995. Following other contracts as a freelance pilot, he formed his own private military company, Jesa Air West Africa. Showing no signs of slowing down with age, Neall will soon be departing for Iraq on another private military contract.

PHIL LANCASTER
Phil Lancaster served over 30 years in the Canadian Military, retiring in 1998 to began humanitarian work with UNICEF. Since then, he has held various UN positions in Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Afghanistan. In August 2004, he returned home to Victoria after successfully managing a Mine Action project involving newly demobilized combatants from Afghanistan’s long running civil war. Throughout his working life, Phil has been a keen observer of political events and has been blessed with unique opportunities to see close hand the development of several world shaping events. He is currently alternating between consulting contracts for the United Nations Development Program in Sudan and working on a book based on his experiences.

He has four children and remains happily married to his wife of 30 years.

EIKE-HENNER W. KLUGE
Dr. Eike-Henner W. Kluge is currently a Professor of Applied Ethics at the University of Victoria. He is the Founding Director of the Department of Ethics and Legal Affairs of the Canadian Medical Association. He has appeared before various Commons and Senate com- mittees on different legislative issues and was the first expert witness in medical ethics to be recognized by Canadian courts. He lectured on military ethics on several occasions at the Royal Roads Military College in Victoria, British Columbia and he was the ethics consultant to the Office of the BC Police complaints Commissioner.He is a member of WG4 (Security and Confidentiality) of the International Medical Informatics Association and wrote its Code of Ethics.

He has published extensively in medical, legal and other professional journals, and is the author of ten books and over 75 articles.

MADELAINE DROHAN
Madelaine Drohan is an award-winning author and journalist who has covered business and politics in Canada, Europe and Africa for twenty five years. She has worked for The Globe and Mail, The Financial Post, Maclean’s and The Canadian Press. She was awarded a Re- uters Fellowship at Oxford University in 1998, and the Hyman Solomon Award for Excellence in Public Policy Jounalism in 2001. She is a 2004-2005 Media Fellow at the Chumir Founda- tion for Ethics in Leadership and the 2004-2005 Journalist in Residence at Carleton Univer- sity. Whenever possible, she conducts journalism workshops for media in Africa and South- east Asia, with a special focus on business and investigative journalism. Her book, Making a Killing: How and Why Corporations Use Armed Force to Do Business, (Random House of Canada and The Lyons Press in the United States) won the Ottawa Book Award and was short-listed for the National Business Book of the Year Award in 2004. She lives in Ottawa where she is working on her second book.