Louise Chawla is a developmental and environmental psychologist who has more than 25 years of research and publications in the field of children, youth and the environment. Her first book, In the First Country of Places, dealt with the influence of childhood experiences of nature across the lifespan. As International Coordinator of the Growing Up in Cities project of UNESCO, she also edited and co-authored Growing Up in an Urbanizing World. She is an Associate Editor of the web-based journal, Children, Youth and Environments, and a Professor in the School of Honors and Liberal Studies at Kentucky State University.  

Benjamin Clavan is Principal of Benjamin Clavan, Architect, AIA, located in Los Angeles, California. His residential, commercial, and institutional projects have been published in design magazines and featured on television, while his critical writing on archtiecture has appeared in professional journals. He is also active in civic affairs and has served as an appointed Member of the West Hollywood Planning Commission, the West Hollywood Public Facilities Commission, and as an elected member of his Los Angeles neighborhood's Community Council and Chair of its Land Use Planning Committee. Benjamin is one of the founding Members of the Berkeley Prize Committe; he has helped develop the website, and serves as the website text editor.

David Driskell is UNESCO Chair for Growing Up in Cities in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University. He is a practitioner and scholar with strong interests in participatory planning and community development, with particular emphasis on child and youth participation in urban evaluation, planning and action. He is author of the book Creating Better Cities with Children and Youth (UNESCO/Earthscan, 2002); served as co-director of the Growing Up in Cities site in Bangalore, India; and is currently director of "Growing Up in NYC"-an action research initiative with community partners in six New York neighborhoods. He is advisor to related research initiatives in Nairobi, Sao Paolo and four Canadian cities. He is also a principal in Community Planning Collaborative, an urban planning firm based in Ithaca, New York. Mr. Driskell is a graduate of Stanford University (Urban and Environmental Studies) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (City and Regional Planning). His work has received awards from the American Planning Association and the American Society of Landscape Architects.

Raymond Lifchez, Chair of the Berkeley Prize Committee, is Professor in the Department of Architecture at UC Berkeley, where he has taught undergraduate design studios and writing seminars. His publications include Design for Independent Living: The Environment and Physically Disabled People (1981), Rethinking Architecture: Design Students and the Physically Disabled (1987), and The Dervish Lodge: Art, Architecture, and Sufism in Ottoman Turkey (1992).

Adriano Pupilli, a senior student at the University of Sydney, Australia, has an interest in socially and environmentally responsive architecture. He is the winner of the 2002 Byera Hadley Travelling Scholarship, and the 2004 Berkeley Prize Travel Fellowship to Barcelona for "Paper House: Self-Help and Waste Reuse towards Affordable, Sustainable and People Empowering Architecture".