Shu CAI is Associate Professor at IESR, Jinan University. He received his BS and MA from Peking University, and PhD in economics from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research focuses on Development Economics, Labor Economics, and Applied Microeconomics. He has published in Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, China Economic Review and Oxford Economic Papers.

Guojun HE is Assistant professor in the Division of Social Science, Division of Environment & Sustainability, and Department of Economics at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He is a faculty affiliate of HKUST's Institute for Emerging Market Studies and Institute for Public Policy. He holds a concurrent appointment at the Energy Policy Institute of the University of Chicago (EPIC) and serves as the research director of EPIC-China.

Chen LIN is Professor of School of Applied Economics,

Renmin University of China. Dr. Lin obtained his PhD from Waseda University, Japan. His research focuses on industrial economics and input-output economics.

Jeremy MAGRUDER is Associate Professor at the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California at Berkeley, where he has worked since completing his Ph.D. in Economics at Yale University in 2007.  His research focuses on improving productivity in developing countries, with interests in social networks, agriculture, and labor markets.  He publishes in the American Economic Review, Journal of Development Economics, AEJ: Applied Economics, the Economic Journal, and more.

Albert PARK is Head and Chair Professor of Economics, Chair Professor of Social Science, and Professor of Public Policy at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is a development and labor Economist who is an expert on China’s economic development. In recent years he has published articles in leading economics journals on firm performance, poverty and inequality, migration and employment, health and education, and the economics of aging in China.

Feng SONG is Associate Professor at Renmin University of China. Her research focuses on China’s energy economics and current research topics include energy efficiency, renewable energy development and power sector reform of China. Before she joined Renmin University, she graduated from Michigan State University with a Ph.D in Environmental and Resource Economics. She has published papers in American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Applied Energy, Energy Economics and Energy Policy.

Sean SYLVIA is Assistant Professor at Department of Health Policy and Management, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He focusses on education economics and health economics. He publishes in Journal of Labor Economics, The Economic Journal, Economic Development and Cultural Change, and more.

Yogita SHAMDASANI is Assistant Professor of Economics at National University of Singapore. She received her BA from Cornell University and PhD in economics from Columbia University. Yogita was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh from 2017 to 2020. Her research focuses on Development Economics and Labor Economics. Her recent publication in the Quarterly Journal of Economics investigates the impact of relative pay on labor productivity in a month-long experiment with manufacturing workers in India.

Van Thanh NGUYEN works in the capacity of the Sustainable Development Officer of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP). She provides support to cross ESCAP initiatives and projects for the implementation, follow up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. She also provides direct support to the senior management of UN ESCAP on its contribution to the implementation of the UN Development system reform. Prior to this, Ms. Nguyen worked at the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) overseeing the portfolio of promoting indigenous rights and knowledge, cultural industry development, youth development and disability inclusive development.

Shaoda WANG is a postdoctoral scholar at the Department of Economics, University of Chicago. In 2021, he will be joining the Harris School of Public Policy as an assistant professor. He is an applied economist with research interests in development economics, environmental economics, and political economy. Prior to Chicago, he got his B.A. from Peking University in 2014, and his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 2019.

Lunyu XIE is Associate Professor at School of Applied Economics, Renmin University. Her research areas are in Development Economics, Environmental Economics, and Energy Economics, ranging from industry migration and air quality, electricity market reform and climate change, household energy consumption survey and research, and green development in less developed areas, etc. She publishes on Energy Economics, China Economic Review, Environmental and Resource Economics, and more.