Brahima D. Kaba, Ph.D.
Dr. Brahima D. Kaba is a development consultant and is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland University College. He has previously taught extensively at the University of Liberia and held a number of senior cabinet posts in government including several years of diplomatic posting in North Africa. Recently, Dr. Kaba established an international business consulting company to  promote foreign direct investment in Africa.
 

Togba-Nah Tipoteh, Ph.D.
Dr. Togba-Nah Tipoteh is a politician, economist, and educator, having mostly recently been presidential candidate for Liberia's 2005 elections, running as the candidate for the Alliance for Peace and Democracy. He has worked in international development in the United States, the Netherlands, Mozambique, Ghana, South Africa and other countries, as well as for the United Nations system: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), International Monetary Fund (IMF), [Economic Community of Africa] (ECA), and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD).

For more than three decades, he has been actively involved with democratic activities in promotion of human rights, liberties, constitutional rule, and growth with development in Liberia and throughout Africa. He is President of the Movement for Justice in Africa (MOJA), an organization with a Pan-African strategy for justice and democracy; Presidential Candidate for the Liberian People's Party (LPP); founding Chairman of the Collaborating Political Parties (CPP), an alliance of Liberian political parties; Director-General of SUSUKUU, Liberia's oldest (founded in 1971), a non-governmental development organization credited by the West Africa Peacekeeping Force (ECOMOG) as helping to disarm over 10,000 combatants; and former Chairman of the Interest Groups of Liberia, a consortium of 32 national organizations with a collective membership of well over one million persons.

Dr. Tipoteh is also a businessman, serving as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Kukatornon Reconstruction Corporation. He was Liberia's national Tennis Champion for 15 unbroken years. He created a scholarship program, where he mentors and sends hundreds of children from all counties of Liberia to schools and colleges in Liberia. To his admirers he is known as "the only man on the ground" -- the only presidential candidate to remain in Liberia after the 1997 election.