Scholars

*Michael Spence

Professor at New York University, 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics

*Edmund S. Phelps

Professor at Columbia University, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics

*Christopher Pissarides

Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics

Graham Allison

Professor at Harvard University

*Jason Furman

Professor at Harvard University; former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to the President of the United States

Scott Kennedy

Director, China Business Economics Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Nicholas Lardy

Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics; Member, Council on Foreign Relations

*Douglas Paal

Vice President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

*Dwight Perkins

Professor, Harvard University

Stephen Roach

Senior Fellow, Yale University

Nouriel Roubini

Professor, New York University, USA; Chairman and CEO, Roubini Macro Research, Inc.

Jeffrey Sachs

Professor, Columbia University

Nicholas Stern

Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science

Susan A. Thornton

Senior Fellow, Yale University; Former Acting Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State

Ngaire Woods, Nellie Lin

Director, Blavatnik School of Politics, University of Oxford

Li Cheng (LI Cheng)

Director of the John L. Thornton China Center and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Program, Brookings Institution

Thomas Friedman

New York Times Diplomatic Review columnist; author of the best-selling book The World is Flat

Alessandro Golombiewski Teixeira

Professor at Tsinghua University; former Special Economic Advisor to the President of Brazil