Veronika Six, protegee of the late Ernst Hammerschmidt, is a scholar of Ethiopian and African studies, ethnology, and educational science. She received the PhD from Hamburg University, editing an Ethiopic hagiographic text (published as VOHD 18). Since 1974 she has served as cataloger of Ethiopic manuscripts in German and Swiss collections. Six is employed in the German project, Union Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts in German Collections (KOHD) where she works on the Ethiopian and Coptic Christian-Arabic manuscripts, which are in the State and University Library at Hamburg. This project has published its findings in the series Verzeichnis der Handschriften in Deutschland (VOHD). Working with diverse Ethiopic texts as source materials, she has published several articles on history, religion, codicology, and art.

Steve Delamarter is Professor of Old Testament at George Fox Evangelical Seminary, Director of the EMIP, Chair of the Society of Biblical Literature’s Consultation on the Ethiopic Bible and Literature, and Project Co-Director with Ato Demeke Berhane in the British Library Endangered Archives Programme project (#286) to digitize and catalog 5,749 items in the Manuscripts and Archives Department of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Delamarter is also head of the steering committee for the Textual History of the Ethiopic Old Testament (THEOT) Project.

Kesis Melaku Terefe served the church in Ethiopia for several years in various positions in Awasa (southern Ethiopia) and Harar (eastern Ethiopia). For the last nine years he has served as priest in the Virgin Mary Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church in Los Angeles, California. He is in frequent demand, speaking in various churches through North America. He served as cataloger of the Wolf Leslau collection of Ethiopian manuscripts at the Charles E. Young Research Library at UCLA.

Getatchew Haile is a MacArthur Fellow and has studied theology at the Coptic Theological College in Cairo, Egypt; social sciences at the American University in Cairo, Egypt; and Semitic philology at the Eberhard-Karls-Universitat Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany. He has also taught for over ten years at the Haile Sellassie I (now Addis Ababa) University, Addis Ababa (Ethiopic) before he moved to the United States in 1976. Getatchew is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and has served the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University (Collegeville, Minnesota) as Curator of the Ethiopian Study Center, as Regents Professor of Medieval Studies, and as Cataloger of Oriental Manuscripts, Emeritus.

Jeremy R. Brown works in the EMIP as director of digitization and technology. In December of 2008 and January of 2009, he served on a digitization team that worked in Ethiopia to digitize about 1,200 manuscripts. Between January and June 2010, he served as Director of Digitization and Conservation in the Endangered Archives Programme grant to digitize the collection at the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Erik C. Young worked on the staff of the EMIP in manuscript digitization and physical descriptions. In December of 2008 and January of 2009, he served on a digitization team that worked in Ethiopia to digitize about 1,200 manuscripts. Young has earned advanced degrees in theological studies at George Fox University and in Eastern Christian Studies at Saint Paul University in Ottawa, Ontario.