Bill Bikales is a development economist whose focus has been China and Mongolia, and whose most recent work on China's economic development is "Reflections on Poverty Reduction in China", published by the Swiss Development Corporation.

Calla Wiemer is President of the American Committee on Asian Economic Studies and author of the textbook Macroeconomics for Emerging East Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

Danny Quah is Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.

David Jay Green was formerly responsible for coordinating regional cooperation projects in Southeast Asia for the Asian Development Bank.

Donghyun Park is Principal Economist at the Asian Development Bank.

Gaaitzen de Vries is Associate Professor at the Department of Global Economics and Management of the University of Groningen

Hiro Lee is a Visiting Professor at the Osaka School of International Public Policy at Osaka University, Japan.

Jerry Schiff is Professorial Lecturer, American University School of International Service, Visiting Professor, Tokyo University Graduate School of Public Policy, and former Deputy Director, Asia and Pacific Department, International Monetary Fund.

Jules Hugot is an economist at the Asian Development Bank.

Kazi Iqbal is a Senior Research Fellow at the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Keun Lee is a professor of economics at Seoul National University.

Michael G. Plummer is Director of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Europe.

Richard Pomfret is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Adelaide, Australia, and Adjunct Professor of International Economics, The Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe, Bologna, Italy.

Ruchi Sharma is an Associate Professor of Economics in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India.

Sameer Khatiwada is a Social Sector Specialist with the Asian Development Bank.

Senay Agca is a professor of finance at the George Washington University School of Business.

Yang Chen is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the International Business School Suzhou, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China