Joseph E. Stiglitz is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University. He is also the co-chair of the High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress at the OECD, and the Chief Economist of the Roosevelt Institute. A recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and the John Bates Clark Medal (1979), he is a former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank and a former member and chairman of the (US president's) Council of Economic Advisers. In 2000, Stiglitz founded the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, a think tank on international development based at Columbia University. He has been a member of the Columbia faculty since 2001 and received that university's highest academic rank (university professor) in 2003. In 2011 Stiglitz was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Known for his pioneering work on asymmetric information, Stiglitz's work focuses on income distribution, risk, corporate governance, public policy, macroeconomics and globalization. He is the author of numerous books, and several bestsellers. His most recent titles are Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited, The Euro, Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy and The Great Divide.

Angus Deaton, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Economics, is one of the world’s foremost experts on the economics of well-being, health, and poverty. Distinguished for the groundbreaking use of household data analysis to establish links between individual human behaviors and societal outcomes, his work relies on real-world facts to inform big-picture economic thinking. As Deaton points out in his book The Great Escape, the historical patterns that shape developing countries indicate that income inequality is often a consequence of progress. Advancements in medicine and technologies that promote healthy living and enable escape from destitution are denied to those who can’t afford them. This inhibits upward mobility and further widens the gap between rich and poor households.
To gain insights into the health and well being of developing nations, Angus Deaton championed the use of household surveys to link consumption of goods and services with outcomes for, and insights into, the whole economy. For example, his studies measuring income against calorie intake in impoverished homes pointed to the value of giving poor countries economic assistance rather than food aid. His work on the distribution of household resources shed light on gender discrimination, as he found that in times of scarcity, families better provide for their boys than for their girls. As a fundamental indicator of the health of an economy, Deaton’s use of household data proved more reliable and useful than income or gross domestic product metrics, and helped convert the development economics discipline from a reliance on theory to a grounding in the empirical.
Noted for being accessible as well as optimistic, Deaton has been lauded by the Nobel organization as “immensely important to human welfare.” His work has helped transform modern microeconomics, macroeconomics and development economics; his findings have greatly influenced both practical policymaking and the scientific community, thus helping to not only analyze but to improve the world.
Deaton is a Senior Scholar and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Economics Department at Princeton University and has taught at Cambridge University and the University of Bristol. He has widely published, including for the World Bank, and is a regular contributor to the Royal Economic Society newsletter. His book The Great Escape broke its publisher’s record for foreign rights sales.
In addition to his 2015 Nobel Prize for Economics, he is the recipient of numerous awards, including most recently being honored with knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to research in economics and international affairs. He also received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award and the first Frisch Medal. Deaton is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and is a Fellow of the British Academy, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Econometric Society.

Philippe Van Parijs is a special guest professor at the Universities of Louvain and Leuven, a Robert Schuman Fellow at the European University Institute and an associate member of Nuffield College, Oxford. He was the founding director of Louvain’s Hoover Chair of Economic and Social Ethics from 1991 to 2016, and a regular visiting professor at Harvard University from 2004 to 2010 and at the University of Oxford from 2011 to 2015.
He is a member of Belgium’s Royal Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is one of the founders of the Basic Income Earth Network and chairs its International Board.
His books include Evolutionary Explanation in the Social Sciences (Rowman & Littlefield, 1981), Arguing for Basic Income (editor, Verso, 1992), Marxism Recycled (Cambridge U.P., 1993), Real Freedom for All. What (if anything) can justify capitalism? (Oxford U.P. 1995; Korean edition: Humanitas, 2016 ), What’s Wrong with a Free Lunch ? (Beacon Press, 2001), Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World (Oxford U.P. 2011), Just Democracy. The Rawls-Machiavelli Programme (ECPR 2011), and Basic Income. A radical proposal for a free society and a sane economy (with Y. Vanderborgh, Harvard U.P. 2017, Korean edition: New Wave Media, 2018).

John E. Roemer is the Elizabeth S. and A. Varick Professor of Political Science and Economics, Yale University. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Corresponding Member of the British Academy. His research concerns political economy and distributive justice. Active current research topics are inter-generational and inter-regional equity in the presence of climate change, and the micro-foundations of cooperation. His research has been published in journals of economics, political science and philosophy. He holds Ph.D in Economics from the U.C. Berkeley. Book titles include A general theory of exploitation and class (1982), A future for socialism (1994), Theories of distributive justice (1996), Political Competition (2001); Racism, Xenophobia and Distribution (2007) and Sustainability for a warming planet (2015).

Penny Low is a veteren Singapore Member of Parliament for 15 years. She co-created the first eco-town in the tropics and Singapore - the Punggol New Town, which has since won many international awards and designated to become the largest township in Singapore. Punggol has recently been named the first ‘Digital and Enterprise District’ in Singapore, creating some 28,000 jobs. Penny pioneered innovation movements and enterprises in many fields. She has invested and advised many startups as well as mature commercial operations. As a veteran of a successful wealth management practice, she leveraged on her expertise and vast networks to create social businesses and platforms for a better world on a local and global scale. She founded the Social Innovation Park(SIP), which is responsible for many tv and radio programs, significant forums and social innovators platforms that influenced hundreds of social entrepreneurs and impacted thousands of people. She also co-founded the Social Enterprise Association which houses the national platform for social enterprises in Singapore, that is now part of the Singapore Centre for Social Enterprise (raiSE).
She has also co-authored many professional curriculum for the financial service sector/university and taught at undergraduate and professional programs in the university. Penny published many articles and books, including the ‘Top 50 Social Innovations Changing Our World” and ‘Practising Sustainability”, which won the silver-award of the 2013 Nautilus Book Awards. She is currently advising and adjunct lecturing at the executive programs for senior leaders at the National University of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, as well as the Nanyang Technological University.
Penny was honoured with many prestigious global awards, including being founding member of the acclaimed World Economic Forum’s New Asian Leaders and the Forum of Young Global Leaders, a Founding Curator of the Global Shapers Community, Aspen Ideas Festival Scholar, Yale World Fellow & Scholar, NTU-Lien Legacy Fellow and a Salzburg Global Fellow. She is an alumnus of NUS, Harvard, Yale and Tsinghua University. Penny is an avid explorer and hitch-hiker who has covered about 90 countries and thousands of cities and towns. She has since become a global connector of talents and innovative projects. She has syndicated deals from artificial intelligence, medical and financial services to food and agri-technology. She is a senior strategic advisor to Jiangsu Industry Technology Research Institute in China where she recently inked a 1Billion RMB technology venture and growth fund.Together with the practice of mindful leadership, her deep cross sector experience and first hand insights made her a unique and invaluable mentor and confidante to C-suites.

Alberto Mondi is an Italian who lives and performs in South Korea as a television personality and businessman. He was a cast member in the talk show Non-Summit(2014~2016). He is a former footballer of Italian Serie D. After graduating from “Cá Foscari” University in Venice in Chinese Language and Culture, he received his Master Degree from Kangwon National University, doing research over Noth-East Asian Economies. He worked as a trainee at the Embassy of Italy in Seoul and he worked as a researcher for the Korea Institute of Public Finance. After that he joined SAB Miller working for three and a half years as a Brand Ambassador for Peroni Nastro Azzurro beer. Later he moved to Fiat Chrysler where he stayed for three years as a Sales Area Manager.
In 2017 he co-founded ‘D.Element’, a social venture selling cosmetics made by disabled people. He is the Vice-President of the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Korea and a member of the Chamber’s Board of Directors since 2013. He has written articles and a monthly column on the Korean newspapers and the Internet media. In 2016, the President of the Republic of Italy awarded him as knight of the Order of the Star of Italy, to praise his contributions to both Italian and Korean culture. In addition to Italian, he speaks Korean, English and Chinese.​