Professor of Agricultural Economics at the University of Maryland and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Productivity Analysis. Professor Chambers's current areas of interest include agricultural economics, production economics, decisionmaking under uncertainty. In the past, he has also worked on international trade, agricultural policy, and mechanism design. 

Professor of Economics, National School of Development, Peking University. He is a renowned growth economist on the Chinese economy with major research interests in growth accounting, productivity theory, macroeconomic measurement and the economics of central planning and transition focusing on institutional interpretation of growth and productivity change. He has contributed extensively to the global debate on China’s real growth and productivity performance in the long run. He was the Fifth President of the Asia KLEMS consortium. He also works for The Conference Board (New York) and TCB China Center (Beijing) as a senior advisor.

Professor Woo is an expert on East Asian economies, particularly those of China, Indonesia and Malaysia. He holds research appointments at Sunway University in Kuala Lumpur, Fudan University in Shanghai, Penang Institute in George Town, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing. He is the convener of the Asian Economic Panel (a group of about 40 economists who meet three times a year to discuss Asian economic issues); and Editor-in-Chief of the Asian Economic Papers (MIT Press).

Professor Woo's research interests are in issues of Sustainable Development, including macroeconomic and exchange rate management, economic growth and development, economic geography, fiscal decentralization, and international capital flows, with focus on the economic systems of China, Indonesia, Malaysia and the United States.

Professor Zhang is the Editor-in-Chief of China Economic Review. His main research areas focus on agricultural economics, development economics, and the Chinese economy. He has published over 90 articles in peer-reviewed English journals, including Journal of Political Economy, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, European Economic Review, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Economic Perspective, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Public Economics, and Proceedings of National Academy of Science. His publications are widely cited. As of October 2022, Google Scholar lists more than 18,200 citations of publications authored or co-authored by him. The h-index and i10-index for Xiaobo compiled by Google Scholar is 59 and 161 respectively. He received the Sun Yefang Prize for Economics Research in China (the most prestigious award in the field of economics in China), the Zhang Peigang Development Economics Outstanding Achievement Award (the highest award in the field of development economics), and Pushan Award on Outstanding Articles in International Economics. He has rich field experience in developing countries, such as leading the Guizhou Household Panel Survey (four waves on more than 800 households), China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) survey (co-PI), Enterprise Survey for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in China (ESIEC), Quarterly Online Survey on Micro-and-small Enterprises (OSOME) in China, cluster surveys in Bangladesh, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, Myanmar, and Tunisia as well as village surveys in China and India.