EDWARD A. HILER is the former dean and vice chancellor for Agriculture and Life Sciences at Texas A&M University and the Texas A&M System, as well as director of the agencies now known as Texas AgriLife Research and the Texas AgriLife Extension Service. He has served in leadership roles for the National Academy of Science and the National Research Council. He is a past president of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.
STEVEN L. BOSSERMAN is founder and president of Bosserman & Associates, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in strategic framing and organization design. Clients have included a number of land-grant universities as well as the W. K. Kellogg Foundation's Food Systems Professions Education and Leadership for Institutional Change initiatives.