Brian Knutson is an assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience at Stanford University, and a CHP/PCOR associate. His research focuses on the neural basis of emotional experience and expression. He investigates this topic with a number of methods including self-report, measurement of nonverbal behavior, comparative ethology, psychopharmacology, and functional brain imaging. His long-term goal is to understand the neurochemical and neuroanatomical mechanisms responsible for emotional experience and to explore the implications of these findings for the assessment and treatment of clinical disorders of affect and addiction, as well as economic behavior.

Knutson has received Young Investigator Awards from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, the Association for Behavioral Medicine Research, the American Psychiatric Association, and the New York Academy of Science. He received BA degrees in experimental psychology and comparative religion from Trinity University, a PhD in experimental psychology from Stanford, and has conducted postdoctoral research in affective neuroscience at UC-San Francisco and at the National Institutes of Health.

Shauna Somerville's research program is focused on plant-pathogen interactions using the powdery mildew disease of Arabidopsis thaliana as a basis for study. Her research group studies nonhost resistance, which is defined operationally as resistance exhibited by all individuals of a plant species to all members of a given pathogen species. Unlike classical resistance deployed in plant breeding, nonhost resistance is both broad-spectrum in action and durable in the field. Analysis of this highly effective form of resistance has highlighted the importance the cell wall as the first line of defense against pathogen entry into plant cells. In addition, Shauna Somerville's lab was an early participant in the use of the microarray technology for gene expression profiling in plants, particularly in plant-pathogen interactions.

Shauna Somerville received her undergraduate training in Genetics (1976) and her M.Sc. in Plant Breeding (1978) at the University of Alberta, and her Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Agronomy and Plant Physiology (1981). She has held positions concurrently at the DOE-Plant Research Laboratory and in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Michigan State University (1982-1993), and is currently on staff at the Carnegie Institution, Department of Plant Biology (1994-present).

Shauna Somerville serves on the editorial boards of Genome Biology (1999-present) and Molecular Plant Pathology (2002-present). She also serves on the advisory boards for a number of plant genomics projects, including the Functional Genomics of Roots (2002-2006), the Functional Genomics of Grape Diseases Program in Chile (2002-2006), Rice Oligonucleotide Arrays (2004-2006) and Potato Functional Genomics (2005-2007). She was a Risø Fellow for Risø National Laboratory, Denmark (2002-2005) and currently serves on Genome Canada's Science and Industry Advisory Committee.

Jennifer (“Jenna”) Davis is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Higgins-Magid Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, both of Stanford University. She also heads the Stanford Program on Water, Health & Development. Professor Davis’ research and teaching is focused at the interface of engineered water supply and sanitation systems and their users, particularly in developing countries. She has conducted field research in more than 20 countries, including most recently Zambia, Bangladesh, and Uganda.

Scott Rozelle is the Helen F. Farnsworth Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research at Stanford University. He received his BS from the University of California, Berkeley, and his MS and PhD from Cornell University. Previously, Rozelle was a professor at the University of California, Davis and an assistant professor in Stanford’s Food Research Institute and department of economics. He currently is a member of several organizations, including the American Economics Association, the International Association for Agricultural Economists, and the Association for Asian Studies. Rozelle also serves on the editorial boards of Economic Development and Cultural Change, Agricultural Economics, the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, and the China Economic Review.

His research focuses almost exclusively on China and is concerned with: agricultural policy, including the supply, demand, and trade in agricultural projects; the emergence and evolution of markets and other economic institutions in the transition process and their implications for equity and efficiency; and the economics of poverty and inequality, with an emphasis on rural education, health and nutrition.

Rozelle's papers have been published in top academic journals, including Science, Nature, American Economic Review, and the Journal of Economic Literature. His book, Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise, was published in 2020 by The University of Chicago Press. He is fluent in Chinese and has established a research program in which he has close working ties with several Chinese collaborators and policymakers. For the past 20 years, Rozelle has been the chair of the International Advisory Board of the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy; a co-director of the University of California's Agricultural Issues Center; and a member of Stanford's Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and the Center on Food Security and the Environment.

In recognition of his outstanding achievements, Rozelle has received numerous honors and awards, including the Friendship Award in 2008, the highest award given to a non-Chinese by the Premier; and the National Science and Technology Collaboration Award in 2009 for scientific achievement in collaborative research.