Paul Krugman is distinguished professor in the Graduate Center Economics Ph.D. program and distinguished scholar at the Luxembourg Income Study Center at the City University of New York. He is also an Op-Ed columnist at The New York Times since 1999. Mr. Krugman received his B.A. from Yale University in 1974 and his Ph.D. from M.I.T. in 1977. He has taught at Yale, M.I.T. and Stanford. Mr. Krugman is the author or editor of 27 books and more than 200 papers in professional journals and edited volumes. Some of his articles on economic issues, originally published in Foreign Affairs, Harvard Business Review, Scientific American and other journals, are reprinted in Pop Internationalism and The Accidental Theorist. In 2008, Mr. Krugman was the sole recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on international trade theory. Mr. Krugman’s current academic research is focused on economic and currency crises.

Ha-Joon Chang has taught at the Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, since 1990. He is currently the Director of the Centre of Development Studies at the University of Cambridge. Ha-Joon Chang has worked as a consultant for numerous international organizations (including various UN agencies and the World Bank), national governments, private sector firms, and NGOs. He is currently a member of United Nations’ Committee for Development Policy (CDP). Chang received his MA and PhD from the University of Cambridge. In addition to numerous articles in journals and edited volumes, Ha-Joon Chang has published 16 authored books (five of them co-authored) and 11 edited books (seven of them co-edited), including Kicking Away the Ladder (2002), Bad Samaritans (2007), and Economics: The User’s Guide (2014). Apart from his academic activities, He is the winner of the 2003 Myrdal Prize and the winner (jointly with Richard Nelson of Columbia University) of the 2005 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought, awarded by Tufts University.

Nathan Wolfe holds the Lorry I. Lokey Business Wire Consulting Professorship in Human Biology at Stanford University. He received his doctorate in Immunology & Infectious Diseases from Harvard and is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, as well as the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award. He has been named a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and a National Geographic Emerging Explorer. Wolfe has over eight years of experience living and conducting biomedical research in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. His debut book, The Viral Storm, is an “engrossing and fast-paced chronicle of medical exploration and discovery” (Publisher’s Weekly) that many in 2020 view as prescient.

Prof. Fan Gang is President of the China Development Institute (CDI) in Shenzhen, China, Director of National Economic Research Institute (NERI) and Chairman of the China Reform Foundation in Beijing, China. He is also Professor of Economics at Peking University (PHBS) and at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). Prof. Fan served as an independent member of the Monetary Policy Committee of China’s Central Bank from 2006 to 2010, and again since 2015, and is an advisor to various departments of the Chinese central government and provincial governments. He served as an economic consultant to various international organizations and played leading roles in research projects commissioned by the World Bank, ADB, UNDP, OECD, etc. He was listed as one of the “World’s Top 100 Public Intellectuals” jointly by Foreign Policy and Prospect in 2005 and 2008 consecutively, and one of “100 Global Thinkers” by Foreign Policy in 2010.

Motoshige Itoh is professor of international social sciences at Gakushuin University. He was professor of economics at the Graduate School of Economics, the University of Tokyo, April 1996 through March 2016 and was the dean of the Graduate School of Economics at the University of Tokyo, Oct. 2007 through Sept. 2009. He has been in various positions advising the prime minister as well as Japanese government organizations. From 2013 to January 2019, he served as a member of the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy. Later he became more involved in policy issues in Japan and published more than 40 books on its various aspects.