Sonia Labatt is an associate faculty member at the Centre for Environment, University of Toronto. She has been engaged in the academic world of environmental finance through her graduate-level courses at the university, and in the financial services world as an active investor. Dr. Labatt broadens her environmental concerns, experience, and commitment through her association with World Wildlife (Canada).

Rodney R. White, Professor of Geography at the University of Toronto, was director of the university's Institute for Environmental Studies from 1994 to 1999 and 2000 to 2005. He is an Associate Fellow of the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford and a Senior Fellow at Massey College, University of Toronto. White's recent books include Building the Ecological City, Planning in Cities (with Roger Zetter), and Environmental Finance (with Sonia Labatt), which was also published by Wiley.