David Kennedy joined the Harvard Law faculty in 1981 and holds a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a J.D. from Harvard. He has worked on numerous international projects as an attorney, including work with the United Nations, the Commission of the European Union, and with the private firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton in Brussels, where his work combined European antitrust litigation, government relations advising, and general corporate law. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, he has served as Chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Advisory Council on Global Governance. At Harvard, he served as Chair of the Graduate Committee and Faculty Director of International Legal Studies. He has lectured as a Visiting Professor at numerous universities across the across the world. In 2008-2009, he served as Vice President for International Affairs, Professor of Law and David and Marianna Fisher University Professor of International Relations at Brown University.

Joseph E. Stiglitz is the winner of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, and a lead author of the 1995 report of the IPCC, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He was chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisors under President Clinton and chief economist and senior vice president of the World Bank for 1997-2000. Prior to Columbia he held the Drummond Professorship at All Souls College Oxford, and professorships at Yale, Stanford, and Princeton. He is the author of the best-selling Globalization and Its Discontents, Making Globalization Work, Fair Trade For All, and most recently of Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy. He has presented invited lectures on many occasions at the China Development Forum and other events in China

Kenneth Ayotte, Northwestern University School of Law
Patrick Bolton, Columbia University
Heping Cao, Peking University
Cai Fang, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Luiss University, Sciences Po Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
Qin Gao, Fordham University
Antara Haldar, Columbia University
David Kennedy, Harvard University
James Kai-sing Kung, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Zheng Liang, Tsinghua University
Benjamin L. Liebman, Columbia University
Justin Yifu Lin, World Bank
Mingxing Liu, Peking University
Curtis J. Milhaupt, Columbia University
Katharina Pistor, Columbia University
Roy Prosterman, Professor Emeritus, University of Washington
Carl Riskin, City University of New York and Columbia University
Francesco Saraceno, Sciences Po Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia University
Ran Tao, Renmin University
Tim Wu, Columbia University
Chenggang Xu, University of Hong Kong
Lan Xue, Tsinghua University
Zhong Zhang, University of Sheffield
Feizhou Zhou, Peking University