Edwards, a veteran U.S. congressman from Oklahoma and formerly one of the top four Republican leaders in the House of Representatives, has been a full-time member of the Kennedy School faculty for the past six years. He teaches courses on the Congress, political leadership, issue advocacy, election strategies, conservative political theory, and the constitutional separation of powers. In addition to teaching, Edwards writes a weekly newspaper column and has been a regular commentator on National Public Radio's All Things Considered.

Edwards was one of the founding trustees of the Heritage Foundation and national chairman of the American Conservative Union. He is currently co-chairman, with former White House counsel Lloyd Cutler, of Citizens for Independent Courts, a national organization devoted to preserving judicial independence. He is also co-chairman with another former White House counsel, Abner Mikva, of Citizens for the Constitution, a national organization concerned with limiting the use of constitutional amendments as a substitute for the normal legislative process.

Sparrow, a former detective chief inspector with the British Police Service, is a mathematician by training and a police officer by profession. Much of Sparrow's research work has one foot in the world of regulatory and enforcement strategy, and the other foot in the world of technology, analysis, and algorithm development. He has acted as advisor to a range of federal regulatory agencies, both on the managerial challenges of compliance management and on the more technical side of their work -- such as performance measurement and fraud detection.

Sparrow was the principal academic advisor to the Environmental Protection Agency for their recent National Performance Measures Project. He has worked with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration on their redesign program, with U.S. Customs on their narcotics interdiction strategy, and with the Health Care Financing Administration and the Department of Justice on health care fraud control. He has been an advisor to the Internal Revenue Service since 1993, both on compliance management issues generally, and also on the control of tax refund fraud. Sparrow holds five patents, for fingerprint pattern recognition techniques (three U.S., one Canadian, and one Australian) having developed the "topological approach to single fingerprint matching." His fingerprint matching methods are currently being built into the FBI's new identification system.