D. Michael Jackson is president and a Fellow of the Institute for the Study of the Crown in Canada. Appointed by the Queen as a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 2005, he is a recipient of the Sovereign's Medal for Volunteers and a member of the Saskatchewan Order of Merit. His books include The Crown and Canadian Federalism, The Canadian Kingdom, and Royal Progress. He resides in Regina.

Christopher McCreery is a founding member of the Institute for the Study of the Crown in Canada and is the author of more than a dozen books. He is private secretary to the lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia and is a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. In 2010, he was appointed a member of the Royal Victorian Order by the Queen. He lives in Halifax.