Hamdan obtained his B.Sc. in Mathematics (Cairo University, First Class Honors, 1957), his PhD in mathematical statistics (Sydney University, 1963), and Honorary Doctorate in Business Administration (Hashemite University, 2015). He is currently Senior Advisor, Arab Open University, Kuwait; President, Union of Arab Statisticians; Senator at the Upper House of Parliament in Jordan; Vice President of Jordan Academy of Arabic Language; Vice President of TWAS/ Arab Region. His previous positions include: Minister of Education and Higher Education, Jordan; Minister of Education, Jordan; President of Yarmouk U and President of Hashemite U, Jordan; President of Arab Open University, Kuwait; Prof. of math, AUB, Lebanon; Prof. of Math. Statistics, Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State U; Prof. of Math. AUC, Egypt; Prof. of Math, Dean of Student, Dean of Research, Dean of the Faculty of Science at U. of Jordan, Amman. He also served as Sec. Gen, Higher Council for Science and Technology, Jordan; he was keynote speaker in numerous international conferences in the areas of Mathematics, Mathematical Statistics, Education and Higher Education.

Gojobori (PhD, Kyushu U., Japan) is a Distinguished Professor, King Abdullah U. of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, and Project Professor, Natl. Inst. of Genetics (NIG), Japan. He received Salvatore Gold Medal from Italy, Medal with Purple Ribbon from Japan. He is foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Academician of the Pontifical Academy of Science; member of Academia Europaea. He is Vice-President of CODATA. He is: section editor, BMC Genomics; founding editor, Genome Biology and Evolution; editor, GENE and FEBS Letters; and associate editor, Molecular Biology and Evolution and PLoS Genetics. He has more than 400 publications in peer-reviewed international journals. He contributed to the DDBJ/GenBank/EMBL database and the H-Invitational human gene database.

Hussain is professor in the electrical engineering department at Kuwait University in Safat, Kuwait. He has done significant work in advancing the emerging technology, utrawide band impulse radar and radio communications, through basic design principles, and array beam forming and self-steering array antenna systems. In addition, he has also provided solutions to modified Maxwell equations for signals. He is a senior member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and recipient of the Teaching Excellence Award and the Kuwait Prize for the Advancement of Science.

Jerew is a member of Iraqi Academy of Sciences, and a leading Iraqi scientist who has made original research contributions on varied topics in control system engineering, electronic and computer engineering, and informatics and computer software. He is also currently Advisor for Technical Education and Programmes Development, Ministry of Manpower, Sultanate of Oman. He has occupied several top scientific and academic administrative positions, improving teaching, research, and higher education in Iraq. He is the author of 40 books and is a well known writer in the Iraqi and Omani media. He is a member of the Arab Science Academies, Syrian Academy of Arabic Language, Iraqi Engineering Society, and has won the state prize, science medal, science merit in Iraq, and the Gdansk Technical University Medal of Poland. He was named as one of the Arab Pioneers in Electronic Engineering, 2005.