Dr Cohen created the principles of defensible space which led to the Firewise program; created the Home Ignition Zone; conducted research on ember ignitions and structure ignitability; helped develop the U.S. National Fire Danger Rating System, and developed calculations for wildland firefighters' safe zones.

Owen was involved in bushfire planning and building regulation, planned burning, bushfire post incident analysis and the CFA Landscaping for Bushfire project.

A retired school principal now a farmer, whose property was destroyed on Black Saturday learned on the job about community and personal recovery after bushfire. He is BRI Chair and a Disaster Recovery Mentor.

The landscape architect at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, Andrew designed the Ian Potter Foundation Children’s Garden and Guilfoyle’s Volcano. He worked with CFA to produce a guide on gardens in a bushfire setting, and with traditional owners in developing an understanding of the deeper history of place

Justin Leonard has dedicated his 32-year research career to the understanding of how bushfire risk to life and infrastructure can be managed. This research combines learnings from bushfire exposure experiments with post bushfire survey investigations and computer modelling of bushfire interactions with buildings.