Martin R. Infante is the Chairman of Self Enhancement For Life Foundation (SELF), he established SELF in 1992. In the Philippines, he served as Chairman of the Inter-Agency Committee for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Substance Dependents of the Dangerous Drugs Board in 1998 and is a founding member of the Philippine Federation of Therapeutic Communities. In Asia, he has actively served in the Board of the Asian Federation of Therapeutic Communities since 2002. He has also worked with the Colombo Plan Drug Advisory Program as a resource person and has co-authored several handbooks on the management of drug treatment programs. In the global effort, he has worked with the Executive Council of the World Federation of Therapeutic Communities (WFTC) since 2003. He eventually joined the Board in 2012 and is at present playing a key role in its effort to restructure and refocus. His initiative to share SELF’s best practices with other TCs led to the development of TC management courses. In 2013, SELF was officially designated as a TC Learning Institute by the WFTC.

Garth Popple is the Executive Director, We Help Ourselves (WHOS) and Director of WHOS International. He currently holds the following honorary positions: Deputy Chair (ex officio past President) Australasian Therapeutic Communities Association (ATCA); and recently Executive Member of the Australian National Council on Drugs (ANCD) for the past 13 years; a recent Past President – International Federation of NGOs. Garth has been working in the Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) non-profit sector since 1980 and in management roles since 1986. Garth has held honorary committee and board positions since 1981 for the non-profit sector as well as serving on various State Ministerial committees for NSW Health and on a National Council which directly reported to the Prime Minister of Australia. Garth has primarily been focused on the residential Therapeutic Community (TC) movement and model of treatment for most of his career to date including working with TCs throughout Asia.  Garth was made an Honorary Fellow of the University of Western Sydney which was awarded in recognition of ‘Services to the Community’ and more recently (2007) was a recipient of a National Honour Roll Award  for persons who have made a significant contribution, over a considerable time period, to the Drug and Alcohol field. Garth received the Prime Minister’s Award (Australia) at the 2010 National Drug and Alcohol Awards. The award recognises an individual as having made a significant commitment and contribution to reducing the impact and negative effects of drug and alcohol use.