David P Judge is a Computer Scientist that teaches Bioinformatics since 1985. He runs the Bioinformatics Training Facilty housed at the Department of Genetics in the University of Cambridge, providing the necessary environment for graduate and undergraduate courses, on top of a comprehensive training programme in cooperation with the European Bioinformatics Institute, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência through GTPB. He teaches Bioinformatics in several international training programmes and is regularly invited to teach in many places in Europe, Asia, Africa and America. His course notes and exercises are well known in the international community of Bioinformatics professionals and users, many of which (difficult to count) have had their first contact with Bioinformatics through him. David pioneered Bioinformatics Training at the IGC in 1986, in the scope of a MSc course. He collaborates in GTPB regularly since its inception in 1999, several times per year.

Phil Cunningham is the Senior Bioinformatics Officer at King's College University of London.

Phil has been supporting KCL Biomedical scientists for well over 20 years after graduating in Biochemistry at Sussex University (1969). During his post graduate studies at Sussex he was introduced to computers (1971) and has been involved in "biological computing" ever since. A Post Graduate Certificate in Education (1976) ensured a fuller awareness of the extra difficulties involved in teaching (as opposed to learning) scientific material and this has proved invaluable in the last decade and a half whilst teaching bioinformatics to KCL undergraduates. Since the beginning of GTPB, Phil has also taught in several courses in Portugal, and also at the University of Minho, Braga.

Pedro Fernandes graduated in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering at IST (U.T. Lisboa). He worked in Biomedical Engineering, Biophysics and Physiology and changed to Bioinformatics in 1990. He established the first user community in Portugal around the national service provided by the portuguese node of the EMBnet. In 1998 he created the Gulbenkian Training Programme in Bioinformatics, that has provided user skills to more than 3200 course attendees throughout its thirteen years of existance. The GTPB has evolved in format and methods, and has widened the variety of its thematic content. This continuous improvement simultaneously aims at matching known training needs in a set of fast evolving subjects, and the modernization of informal learning provision using 21st century skills.