Josep Call, Professor in Evolutionary Origins of Mind, University of St Andrews, Michael Tomasello, James Bonk Distinguished Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience, Duke University

Josep Call is a comparative psychologist specializing in primate cognition, Wardlaw Professor in the Evolutionary Origins of Mind at the University of St Andrews and Director of the Budongo (Chimpanzee) Research Unit (Edinburgh Zoo). Prior to his current post he was a lecturer (School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool) and a senior scientist (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology). Josep obtained a BA (Psychology, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) and a Master and PhD (Psychology, Emory University). He has been elected fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Cognitive Science Society, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the British Academy.

Michael Tomasello is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University, and emeritus director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. His research interests focus on processes of cooperation, communication, and cultural learning in human children and great apes.