Hyuncheol Bryant Kim is an Associate Professor in Economics Department at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University (on leave). He is an applied empirical micro-economist focusing on causal impacts of policy interventions in health and education sectors through large scale data analysis and social experiment.

Kazushi Takahashi is a Japanese development economist. He is a Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), and is a director of the Global Governance (G-cube) Program at GRIPS, Japan. Before joining GRIPS, he was an Associate Professor and Professor at Sophia University from 2015 to 2019, a visiting research fellow at the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management of Cornell University from 2010 to 2012, and a research fellow at the Institute of Developing Economies-Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO) from 2006 to 2015.