Zichen Deng is an applied economist working on environmental, health, and development economics. He joined the Department of Economics at NHH in August 2020 and is also affiliated to the Macroeconomics and Natural Resources group.

Tomoki Fujii is Associate Dean (Undergraduate Curriculum) and Associate Professor of Economics at School of Economics, Singapore Management University. His main areas of research include development economics, environmental economics, health economics, and applied statistics. His papers have appeared in leading journals in these fields. His current research projects include several impact evaluation studies in human capital interventions in South and Southeast Asia.

Dr Minhaj Mahmud is Senior Economist, ADB Economic Analysis and Operational Support Division, Economic Research and Development Impact Department. Minhaj’s research areas include behavioral economics, development economics and health economics, with a focus on field experiments and impact evaluation in health, education, labor, environment, climate change, gender, and political economy issues. He works in the teams supporting economic analysis of health and social sector projects as well as impact evaluation of ADB projects.

Abhijit Banerjee was educated at the University of Calcutta, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Harvard University. He is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at MIT. Banerjee is a past president of the Bureau for Research in the Economic Analysis of Development, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society, and has been a Guggenheim Fellow and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow.

Suqin Ge is an Associate Professor of Economics at Virginia Tech. She obtained her Master in Economics from Fudan University and her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Ge's research focuses primarily on labor economics and Chinese economy. Her work has covered a wide range of topics including education, labor supply, wage structure, discrimination, migration and early child development. She has published in economics journals such as Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, and Journal of Applied Econometrics. She was awarded the U.S.

Niaz Asadullah is a Professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Malaya. Among his research interests include development economics, the economics of education, labor economics, and happiness economics. His current research draws upon data from South and Southeast Asia and focuses on female workforce participation, women's well-being, the impact of poverty programs, life satisfaction and well-being in old age.

Naohiro Ogawa is a Professor of Population Economics at the Nihon University College of Economics and Director of the Nihon University Population Research Institute. He has written extensively on population and development in Japan and other Asian countries. More specifically, his research has focused on issues such as socioeconomic impacts of low fertility and rapid ageing, modelling demographic and social security–related variables, as well as policies related to fertility, employment, marriage, child care, retirement and care for the elderly.

Asha Sundaram is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Auckland.  She has an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford, the United Kingdom, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Syracuse University, United States.  Her research interests are in the fields of International Trade and Development Economics.