Ákos Máthé, Professor and Head of the Department of Botany, West-Hungarian University Faculty of Agriculture and Food Science, Hungary He is the Chair of the section of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of the International Society of Horticulture Science. He is Vice President of the International Council of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (member of IUBS) and President of the Hungariuan Horticultural Society. He is former editor of Herba Hungarica, Acta Agronomica Hungaric and presently editor of ICMAP Newsletter, member of the boar of editors of Journal of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Haworth, Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology. His main research areas include botany and ecophysiology of medicinal and aromatic plants, diversification of horticultural production.Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque is graduate at Biological Sciences from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (1993), master's at Plant Biology (Taxonomy and Ethnobotany)from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (1996) and PhD at Plant Biology (Ethnobotany) from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (2001). Currently he is professor of Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (Pernambuco, Northeastern Brazil) where he coordinates the Laboratory of Ecology and Evolution of Social-Ecological Systems (LEA). He was presidente of the Brazilian Society of Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology (2005-2008). He acts in the areas of ecological anthropology, ethnobotany, biodiversity conservation, applied botany, ethnopharmacology and natural products. He has a special interest to the comprehension of the factors that modulate the relation between people and biota on the interface of ecology and evolutive processes. He is member of editorial board of the Journal of Ethnobiology and Etnomedicine (Deputy Editor), Economic Botany (Associate Editor) and Ethnobiology and Conservation (co-Editor in Chief).Umesh Patil has completed his PhD from Dr H S Gour Vishwavidyalaya (University), Sagar and Postdoctoral studies from Institute of Biology, Leiden University, The Netherlands. Currently he is serving as Professor of Pharmacognosy and General Secretary to Indian Society of Pharmacognosy (ISP). He is Editor of Indian Journal of Natural Products and News Letters of ISP and ICMAP. He has been serving as Editorial Board Member of many reputed journals. His area of specialization is Herbal Drug Technology, Ethnopharmacology and Phytomedicines. He is the recipient of 7 prestigious awards given in the field of HMPs and remained BOYSCAST Fellow of DST, Govt of India. He is Board Member of International Council for Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (ICMAP) and Member of many professional bodies including International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), International Society of Ethno-Pharmacology (ISE), International Society for Medicinal Plant Research (GA), International Pharmaceutical Students Federation, International Society of Natural Product Development, APTI, IPA, IPGA, ISTE and IAHP.
