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Rana P.B. Singh, the other guest editor, is Professor of Cultural Geography at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, and founding president of the Society of Heritage Planning and Environmental Health, as also of the Society of Pilgrimage Studies. he has been studying the city of Banaras/ Varanasi/ Kashi for most of his life and is today an undisputed authority on the culture, geography and history of the city.

Professor William (Bill) Logan has been involved in cultural heritage conservation from the early 1970s when he took part in the resident action movement in inner Melbourne. He has been engaged in teaching, research and consulting on Australian and Asian heritage issues since then.

He completed a doctorate in 1981 in the field of urban geography with a thesis focused on the politics of housing, planning and heritage conservation in inner Melbourne. He has held numerous senior administrative positions, including Dean, in the higher education sector since 1971.

At Deakin University he was Research Director in the Faculty of Arts 1993-98. Professor Logan holds an Alfred Deakin Professorship and the UNESCO Chair of Heritage and Urbanism in the Faculty’s School of History, Heritage and Society. He was awarded the Deakin University Researcher of the Year Award in 2002 and was made an Alfred Deakin Professor in 2004 for his contribution to the university's research profile.