Lance L P Gore is Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. His research interests span a wide range of topics on China and East Asia. He has done research and published on Chinese environmental politics (the “Green GDP” experiment), the reforms in China’s steel industry, energy sector, patterns of entrepreneurship in mainland China, the economic bureaucracies of China, cadre performance evaluation, local state economic behaviour, the Chinese Communist Party, industrial relations, elite politics and the People’s Liberation Army. He taught for many years at Bowdoin College and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University in the United States. He is the single author of three monographs: Chinese Communist Party and China’s Capitalist Revolution: the Political Impact of Market (Routledge); Market Communism: the Institutional Foundations of China’s Post-Mao Hyper-Growth (Oxford); and Chinese Politics Illustrated: the Cultural, Social and Historical Contexts (World Scientific). He also published widely in international journals such as Polity, The New Political Economy, The China Journal, East Asia: An International Quarterly, Problems of Post-Communism, Journal of Contemporary China, Chinese Journal of Comparative Law etc. and also edited or co-edited several books and contributed numerous book chapters. He is associate editor of China: An International Journal.

Dr Nikita Chiu is Head of Research and Impact at the Innovation Academy at University College Dublin. She is Ad Astra Distinguished Fellow in Robotic and Outer Space Governance at the Space Engineering Research Center at USC, and was in 2019 selected as one of "20 under 35" future leaders to watch by the Space & Satellite Professionals International for her work on space sustainability. Dr Chiu was the former Research Fellow in Robotics at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. She is also a former Research Affiliate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge. Prior to a career in Technology Governance, Dr. Chiu lectured on Foreign Policy and International Relations in Hong Kong and Tallinn, and was an Associate Lecturer in the UK. Dr Chiu's ongoing research investigates the dynamics between technological advances and governance, with a focus on understanding the socio-economic, policy, and security impact brought by the increasing commercialization of robotics, quantum, and space technologies. An International Relations scholar by training, she read Technology Policy at St Edmund's College at the University of Cambridge, and holds a PhD from The Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva.

Holly Krambeck is a Program Manager in the World Bank's Development Economics Data Group. She founded the Development Data Partnership, a partnership between international organizations and companies, created to facilitate the responsible use of third-party data in international development.

I am an associate professor of economics in the School of Public Policy and Urban Studies at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. My research interests are varied, spanning applied/empirical economics, labour economics, economic inequality (especially labour market inequalities and discrimination experienced by women, immigrants, and racial minorities), and more recently the role of ideological biases in mainstream economics. However, one identifiable theme in his work is studying and challenging the mechanisms and processes that hinder plurality and produce inequality, injustice, exclusion, and marginalization.