Stephen Frosh is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London. He was a consultant clinical psychologist and vice dean at the Tavistock Clinic, London, in the 1990s. He is an academic associate of the British Psychoanalytical Society.

Devorah Baum is Professor in English Literature at the University of Southampton and at the Parkes Institute at Southampton, one of the world's leading centres for the study of Jewish/ non- Jewish relations.