S.K. Chou is a Professor Adjunct at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore. He is presently Chairman of the Technical Committee of the Cooling Energy Science and Technology Singapore (CoolestSG) Consortium at NUS funded by the National Research Foundation. Between 1992 and 2007, he held positions as Director, Industry, and Technology Relations Office, Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at NUS.

M Ramesh is a professor and UNESCO chair on social policy design in Asia Lee Kuan Yew school of public policy.