Professor David Hensher is Founding Director of the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies at The University of Sydney; a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences; recipient of numerous awards including the 2009 International Association of Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR) Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2019 John Shaw Medal which honours an industry champion who has made a lasting contribution to Australia's roads. In 2021 an annual prize was established and named in honour of David for best paper in transport demand modelling at the Australasian Transport Research Forum (ATRF). He has published over 700 papers in leading international transport and economics journals as well as 18 books. He has over 66,000 citations of his contributions in Google scholar. Research.com, a leading academic platform for researchers, released the 2022 Edition of the Ranking of Top 1000 Scientists in the field of Economics and Finance and David is #1 in Australia. In 2020 David’s latest book was published a book on MaaS: Hensher, D.A., Mulley, C., Ho, C., Nelson, J., Smith, G. and Wong, Y. (2020) Understanding Mobility as a Service (MaaS) - Past, Present and Future.

Professor Graham Currie directs the Monash University, Public Transport Research Group which in 2015 was identified as top group in Australia and in the top 3 research groups in the world in this area.  Graham is Chair of the Light Rail Transit Committee at US Transportation Research Board and a member of the Research Advisory Board for Singapore LTA and the Swedish Centre for Research on Public Transport.  He has won numerous research prizes including best paper; 14^th World Conference on Transport Research and the William W Millar prize at the TRB conference (twice ; the only person ijn the world to ever have done this).  Graham is an elected fellow of the Academy of Technology Science and Engineering.    In 2020 Graham was awarded the Australian Transport Medal by the Engineers Australia, Transport Australia Society.