Meijun Fan, PhD was a professor at Beijing Normal University for more than ten years. She is currently Co-Director of the China Project at the Center for Process Studies (Claremont, USA) and Program Director of the Institute for Postmodern Development of China. She received her PhD from Beijing Normal University and her MA from Peking University. Her research interests include Chinese traditional aesthetics, process philosophy, and aesthetic education. She is the author of several books, including Aesthetic Development of Children (1990), Beauty in Human Life (1993), Contemporary Interpretations of Chinese Traditional Aesthetics (1997), Popular Aesthetics in the Qing Dynasty (2001), The Second Enlightenment (with Zhihe Wang, 2011), and Cobb and China (2022). She is the author of approximately 100 academic articles in Chinese and English.
Selected works include publications in Philosophy East and West, Balkan Journal of Philosophy, The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Philosophical Research and others.

Dr. Zhihe Wang, a former member of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, received his Master’s Degree in Western Philosophy from Peking University, China, his PhD in Philosophy of Religion from Claremont Graduate University, USA, and is a leading figure in the constructive postmodern movement in China. He has published numerous books and more than 160 articles. His recent books include Process and Pluralism: Chinese Thought on the Harmony of Diversity, Second Enlightenment (with Meijun Fan). He also helped establish more than 30 research institutes on process thought and constructive postmodern studies in China. As co-director of CPS China Project, his major responsibility is to charge the communication between the Western Process community and Chinese community by organizing international conferences, arranging lectures, translating process books, and Chinese visiting scholar program.

Clifford Cobb is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a master’s degree in public policy. He is author of Responsive Schools, Renewed Communities: A Communitarian Proposal for Systemic Education Reform; co-author of The Green National Product: An Alternative Measure of the National Economy, co-editor of The Path to Justice: Essays on the Philosophy and Economics of Henry George, contributor to For the Common Good, and author of several articles on social indicators and environmental taxes. In 1999, he was invited to write a background paper for a planning session in Denmark on social indicators in preparation for the United Nations Summit on Social Development. In 1994, he helped establish Redefining Progress, a social policy think-tank in San Francisco, and he remains a senior fellow, doing research projects on common property resources and tax policy. In 1995, he served as a member of an advisory committee for President Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development. In 2026 Cliff is hoping to retire a second and final time from editing the American Journal of Economics and Sociology. At that point, he hopes to devote more time to exploring how process thought can be applied to topics in social and economic theory that are currently in philosophical limbo.

Dr. Jay Jones has broad academic training with concentrations ranging from Microbiology and Botany to Geology and Chemistry. He has held appointments with Argonne National Laboratory, The National Park Service, Ripon College in Wisconsin, IU-PU at Indianapolis, ARCO Oil and Gas Exploration Research, and as a remote sensing consultant to NASA. For 35 years he served as Professor of Biology and Biochemistry at the University of La Verne, now emeritus, where he taught a diverse array of courses, including a course called, Toward a Sustainable Planet. Although emeritus he continues to teach. Travels associated with teaching and research, have allowed direct observation of environmental changes at home and abroad. (e.g. Amazon, Australia, Borneo, Central America, China, Europe, Galapagos, the Middle East, Malawi, Nepal, Rwanda, Vietnam) In past years, Jay represented the University on the National Council for Science and the Environment, (now GCSE). His professional efforts are currently focused on sharing information regarding various aspects of environmental sustainability through presentations and workshops with the goal of fostering change.