Joseph E. Stiglitz was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 2001 and is University Professor at Columbia University where he founded the Initiative for Policy Dialogue in 2000. He was Chair of President Bill Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors from 1995-97 and Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank from 1997-2000.His best known recent publications include 'Making Globalization Work' (2006), 'Fair Trade for All' (2005), 'Globalization and its Discontents' (2002) and 'The Roaring Nineties' (2003). José Antonio Ocampo is United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs. Prior to assuming his present position in the United Nations, he held a number of posts in the Government of Colombia, including those of Minister of Finance and Public Credit, Director of the National Planning Department and Minister of Agriculture and was former Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). His academic pursuits have included service as Director of the Foundation for Higher Education and Development, Professor of Economics at the Universidad de los Andes and the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, and Visiting Professor at Cambridge, Yale and Oxford Universities.

Andrew Charlton, London School of Economics
Randall Dodd, Financial Policy Forum
Gerald Epstein, University of Massachusetts
Roberto Frenkel, Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad (CEDES)
Ilene Grabel, University of Denver
Stephany Griffith-Jones, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
K. S. Jomo, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)
Martin Khor, Third World Network
José Antonio Ocampo, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs
Gabriel Palma, University of Cambridge
Avinash Persaud, Intelligence Capital
Liliana Rojas-Suarez, Center of Global Development; Latin American Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee
Benu Schneider, Financing for Development Office of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Shari Spiegel, New Holland Capital
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Initiative for Policy Dialogue
Sergio L. Schmukler, Development Research Group of the World Bank