Michael Matheson Miller is the director of Acton Media and is also one of Acton Institute’s research fellows. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame, has an MA from Nagoya University's Graduate School of International Development (Japan), an MA in philosophy from Franciscan University, and an MBA in International Management from Thunderbird (The American Graduate School of International Management). Before coming to Acton, he spent three years at Ave Maria College of the Americas in Nicaragua where he taught philosophy and political science and was the chair of the philosophy and theology department. He has almost 10 years of international experience and has lived and traveled in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. He has been published in the Washington Times, The Detroit News, The LA Daily News, and Crisis. His research interests include political economy, moral philosophy, economic development, and political theory.

Alexander Trachta studied law at the University of Vienna (A) and law and economics at the University of Manchester (UK). He is a practising lawyer in the field of tax law and capital market law. His main interest lies with the history of economic thought and with F. A. Hayek’s theories on law and the spontaneous order of catallaxis.

Kishore Jayabalan is director of Istituto Acton, the Acton Institute's Rome office. Formerly, he worked for the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace as an analyst for environmental and disarmament issues and desk officer for English-speaking countries. Kishore Jayabalan earned a B.A. in political science and economics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In college, he was executive editor of The Michigan Review and an economic policy intern for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He worked as an international economist for the Bureau of Labor Statistics in Washington, D.C. and then graduated with an M.A. in political science from the University of Toronto. During his graduate studies, Kishore was baptized and received into the Roman Catholic Church by Pope John Paul II in Rome in 1996. He later worked as a student campus minister at the university's Newman Centre, which led to his appointment to the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations in New York in 1997. Two years later, he returned to Rome to work for the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. Kishore became director of Istituto Acton in 2005 and organizes the institute's educational and outreach efforts in Rome and throughout Europe.

Philip Booth is editorial and programme director at the Institute of Economic Affairs in London and professor of insurance and risk management at Cass Business School.  He has a Ph.D. in finance from the University of Durham.  He is a fellow of the Institute of Actuaries and of the Royal Statistical Society.  Previously, Prof. Booth worked for the Bank of England as an advisor on financial stability issues.  He has written widely on investment, finance, social insurance and pensions as well as on the relationship between Catholic social teaching and economics.  He is editor of Economic Affairs and associate editor of the Annals of Actuarial Science and the British Actuarial Journal.  He is also editor and co-author of Catholic Social Teaching and the Market Economy.

Bernhard Adamec is currently working as an associate at the Vienna office of the Boston Consulting Group, an American management consulting firm. Before entering the business world, he graduated with a Master's in philosophy from the University of Vienna and was involved in Austrian politics.