Christian Viegelahn is a Senior Economist at the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Bangkok. He joined the ILO in 2011 and spent several years at ILO’s Research Department in Geneva, before moving to ILO’s Bangkok Office in 2018. His research focuses on labor economics, the future of work, international trade, global value chains, and macroeconomics. He is also member of the ILO-wide task team on COVID-19 and has been undertaking extensive research on the labor market impact of the current crisis.

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.

Rikiya Matsukura is a researcher at the Nihon University Population Research Institute. He has also been working as a guest researcher and lecturer of demographic analysis at the Statistical Research and Training Institute of the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications since 2002. As a UN consultant, he has also contributed to the formulation of the most recent five-year economic plan of the Laotian government.

Emiko Usui is an associate professor at Hitotsubashi University, Japan. She received her B.A. in economics from the University of Tokyo and her Ph.D. in Economics from Northwestern University. Her research interests are in the area of labor economics, and include gender issues, compensating differentials, labor search models, employment protection, nonparametric estimation of returns to schooling, intergenerational links in skills, and testing for employer learning.

Dr. Seik Kim is an Associate Professor from the Department of Economics at Korea University. He obtained his Doctorate and Masters degree in Economics from Yale University, and graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Seoul University. He served as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics of Korea University from 2013 to 2014, and at the University of Washington from 2007 to 2013. He sits in the Editorial Board of the Korean Economic Review since 2016.

Peter McDonald is Emeritus Professor of Demography in the Crawford School of Public Policy. He was President of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) for the years, 2010-2013. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and an inaugural Public Policy Fellow of the ANU. He is frequently consulted on the issue of population futures (causes, consequences and policies) by governments around the world, especially in Australia, Europe and East Asia. In 2008, he was appointed as a Member in the Order of Australia.

Kwanho Shin is Professor of Economics at Korea University. He received his B.A. and M.A. in economics from Seoul National University and his Ph.D. in economics from UCLA. He was an Assistant Professor at the University of Kansas for four years and occasionally taught at UCLA, Claremont Graduate University and Claremont Mckenna College as a visiting professor.