Robert Aumann is a Professor of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and one of the founders of the Center for Rationality at the Hebrew University. He is one of the world's leading game theorists, and the author of almost a hundred scientific papers and six books. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, the British Academy, the Academia Europaea and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities; holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Chicago, Bonn, Louvain, City University of New York, Bar Ilan University, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, and the University of Paris II; and has received numerous prizes, including the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for 2005 for his work on repeated games.

Itzhak Gilboa holds the AXA Chair in Decision Sciences at the École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) Paris, as well as the Chair of Economic Theory and Decision Theory at Tel-Aviv University. He works in decision theory and other fields in economic theory such as game theory and social choice. His main research areas are decision under uncertainty, focusing on the definition of probability, notions of rationality, non-Bayesian decision models, and related issues. He is a Fellow of the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics at Yale University, a Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, a Member of Council of the Econometric Society, and an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Sarit Kraus is a Professor of Computer Science at Bar-Ilan University. Her research focuses on intelligent agents and multi-agent systems ---particularly the design of intelligent agents that can interact proficiently with people, in both cooperative and conflicting scenarios. Her work combines methods from Machine Learning, Decision Theory and Game Theory, non-classical logic, optimization under uncertainty and psychology. Kraus was awarded the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award, ACM SIGART Agents Research award, ACM Athena Lecturer, the EMET prize and was twice the winner of the IFAAMAS influential paper award. She is AAAI, ECCAI and ACM fellow and a recipient of the advanced ERC grant. She is a member of The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Eric Maskin is the Adams University Professor and Professor of Economics and Mathematics at Harvard, and was previously the Albert O. Hirschman Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. He has made contributions to game theory, contract theory, social choice theory, political economy, and other areas of economics, and the author of more than 140 scientific papers and five books. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Econometric Society, Game Theory Society, and the European Economic Association, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, and a past president of the Econometric Society. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Cambridge, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Corvinus University of Budapest, Université Libre de Bruxelles, and Georgetown University, among others. In 2007, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for laying the foundations of mechanism design theory.