Dr. Robert L. Bach: Bach is currently on the faculty at the Center for Homeland Defense and Security, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. Independently, he works as a consultant on homeland security, primarily involving border and transportation security issues, and community-based preparedness. Bach’s research includes projects on migration, poverty and social vulnerability in Vietnam and other low income countries, and he serves as a strategic planner and policy advisor on educational development issues in the United States.

Earlier, Dr. Bach was Director of the Global Inclusion Division of the Rockefeller Foundation, where he focused on poverty and social exclusion in transnational and global issues. Dr. Bach also served as Deputy Director of the Foundation’s Working Communities Division. From 1994 to 2000, Dr. Bach served in the Immigration and Naturalization Service at the U.S. Department of Justice as Executive Associate Commissioner for Policy, Planning and Programs. He worked extensively on border and international issues, especially with Mexico and Canada. Dr. Bach’s scholarship concentrates on employment, immigration, national and human security and public policy both inside the United States and around the world. He was a professor at the State University of New York at Binghamton, earning his doctorate from Duke University. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania.

Richard Kiy: Since 2001 Kiy has served as the President and CEO of the International Community Foundation (ICF), a public charity committed to promoting expanded cross-border charitable giving and volunteerism with an emphasis on the U.S.-Mexico border and Baja California. Prior to joining ICF, Kiy served as Senior Vice President for Business Development at PriceSmart, Inc., a leading emerging markets retailer with operations throughout Central America, the Caribbean and the Philippines. He was also a Vice President at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) where he served in both Mexico and Venezuela in the area of business development and environmental technology solutions.

Kiy’s public sector experience includes having served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environmental Health & Safety at the U.S. Department of Energy and over the years has held several other senior level positions in the U.S. Government including Acting Environmental Attaché at the U.S. Embassy-Mexico and Special Assistant for U.S.-Mexico Border Affairs at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. A graduate of Stanford University and Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, Kiy is also the co-author of the book, Environmental Management Along North America's Borders and is the co-editor of The Ties that Bind Us: Mexican Migrants in San Diego County.