Brian Mouatt started his dental career graduating from Edinburgh University in 1960. He spent five years in the Royal Air Force as a dental officer before going out to Zambia where he became Chief Dental Officer to the Zambian Government. On returning to UK he pursued his interest in continuing education and, at the same time, ran a practice in Dorset. When the opportunity arose he returned to government service with the UK Department of Health and became England’s Chief Dental Officer. He has always maintained his interest in Africa and the Commonwealth and, since retiring three years’ ago, and was Chairman of the FDI World Dental Development Committee.  He was President of the CDA from 2003 to 2006..

Joyous Pickstock graduated from Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee, USA in 1986.In 1994 she received a Master’s Degree in Dental Public Health from the University of London.  Presently, a Consultant in Public Health Dentistry, Dr Pickstock has been employed with the Bahamas Ministry of Health for the past seventeen years.  An advocate for organised dentistry, Joyous Pickstock has been an active member of the Bahamas Dental Association since 1986 and has held every post during her tenure.  Currently, she is the Immediate Past President of the Caribbean Atlantic Regional Dental Association (CARDA) and Executive Secretary (Bahamas) to the International Dental Federation (FDI).  She is a Fellow of the International Congress of Oral Implantology, and member of various dental professional organisations. In 2002, as part of the PAHO Centennial Celebrations,  she was the youngest honouree to receive the National Health Hero’s Award for her contributions to Dentistry in The Bahamas.  In addition, to her extra-curricular activities, Dr. Pickstock enjoys a limited private practice at Faith Dental Centre where she is also a director.  She was CDA Vice-President for the Canada/Caribbean Region from 2000 to 2006.

Dr Temalesi King is a PhD candidate at the department of Community Oral Health and Epidemiology, University of Sydney, Australia. Her research interest focuses on Health Promotion in developing countries, particularly the implications and progress in oral health. Prior to taking up this study, she was a Senior Lecturer in dental public health at the School of Oral Health, Fiji School of Medicine. Fiji has hosted the training of dental personnel for the Pacific Region for more than 100 years. In addition to her teaching she was instrumental in developing the research capacity of oral health personnel in the Pacific through students that she taught. In her endeavour for a Pacific wide focus on research she applied to the Wellcome Trust (UK) for funding on Diabetes and oral health; unfortunately, the competition was high with other medical conditions.
Dr Temalesi King assisted in advising her country (Fiji) in policy and planning dental services. As a team member, she organised the scientific programme and evaluation of the Pacific directors of an Oral health meeting, held in New Caledonia in 2000. This meeting was an attempt to gauge the performance of oral health in the Pacific, form partnership to help struggling areas and network for new knowledge and ways of tackling issues. She presented the outcomes at the 2003, FDI Congress in Sydney, Australia.
Dr King also worked closely with the Health Promotion Unit at the Ministry of Health, Fiji, and the Colgate Company in the areas of preventing oral diseases and bringing Primary Health Care to the villages and urban areas of the community.
Dr Temalesi King was Vice-President for the Pacific and Australasia Region from 2003 to 2006.

Martin Hobdell is currently Professor and Chair in the Department of Dental Public Health & Dental Hygiene at the University of Texas in Houston, USA, but later in 2004 he will return to the British Isles from where he will be continuing his longstanding commitments to international oral health. He is currently a member of the World Dental Federation’s World Dental Development Committee and Joint Co-ordinator of Diploma and Master’s courses in Dental Public Health at the Faculties of Dentistry, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and Phnom Penh Cambodia, and an elected member of the American Dental Association/Health Volunteers Overseas Committee (ADA/HVO) and organizer of a primary oral health care programme in Mulukuku, Nicaragua. He is an Associate member of the ADA and a member of the British Dental Association. He was formerly the Dean of the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa; Professor in the Department of Community & Preventive Dentistry at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland; Reader in Dental Health at the University of London, The London Hospital Medical College Dental School; Professor of Stomatology, Ministry of Health, Mozambique, and Reader in Dental Anatomy at the University of London, King’s College, UK.  Martin Hobdell was Editor of the CDA Bulletin from 1996 to 2006.