Terry McGrath is National Director of International Student Ministries of New Zealand and International Chaplain at Massey University, Palmerston North.  He has been involved in the pastoral care and welfare of international students in a variety of capacities for over twenty years.  Terry is currently New Zealand branch Vice President of ISANA International Education Association.  His involvement in international education has lead to writing and research primarily in areas of pastoral care and welfare of international students which has in turn led to providing professional development in those areas.  Continued contact with returned graduates over time motivated his re-entry research and on going interest in the educational and living experiences of international students here in New Zealand.

Paul Stock is a Senior Tutor in Plant Biology in the Institute of Molecular BioSciences at Massey University, Palmerston North. He is an Associate Chaplain at Massey University, with a focus on the pastoral care of International students. He is also the Director of Internship training and development with International Student Ministries New Zealand (ISMNZ). Paul worked in Indonesia for two years as a visiting lecturer and has over 20 years of involvement with International students in New Zealand.

Dr Andrew Butcher is the Director, Research and Policy at the Asia New Zealand Foundation. A sociologist, also with degrees in history and criminology, he has previously worked as a researcher for Massey University and Inland Revenue. He has delivered guest lectures at the universities of Oxford, Otago, Massey and Victoria University of Wellington, where he is also a Fellow of the Asian Studies Institute. He has authored or co-authored over thirty papers, chapters, books and articles. His PhD, which he completed in 2002, was on the re-entry of Asian students after they had studied in New Zealand.

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