Sang-Hyop Lee

Dr. Sang-Hyop Lee is Professor and Chair in the Department of Economics at the University of Hawaii and Senior Fellow at the East-West Center. He has served as Chair of the National Transfer Accounts (NTA) project, which includes research teams in more than 90 countries. His
studies have focused on issues related with population changes, labor markets, and social welfare, with emphasis on Asian economies. He has collaborated with a lot of international organizations as well as many governments around the world. Dr. Lee received his BA and MA

Yuanyuan Deng

Yuanyuan Deng is a CEPAR Senior Research Associate. She is an applied microeconomist with broad empirical interests focusing on Health Economics, Public Economics, and Labor Economics. Her research has been supported by the Michigan Retirement and Disability Research Center (MRDRC) and the Center for Retirement Research (CRR) at Boston College.

Atonu Rabbani

Atonu Rabbani is an applied microeconomist with research interests in health, labor, and organization economics. He has worked extensively on several research areas aiming to understand how knowledge, awareness, perception, monitoring and incentive can motivate human decision making. He has widely published in both national and international peer reviewed journals including The Lancet and American Economic Review. Dr.

James Mirrlees

Sir James Mirrlees was Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Cambridge and Master of Morningside College at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.  His work in microeconomics is deemed to be world-renowned. During the 1960s and 1970s he worked on the theory of public economic policy which would eventually earn him the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1996 (alongside William Vickrey) for their pathbreaking work on the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information.