Celestin Monga is Chief Economist and Vice President of Economic Governance and Knowledge Management at the African Development Bank (AfDB), and Managing Director at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). He previously worked as Senior Advisor for Structural Transformation at the World Bank and has held various board and senior positions in academia and financial services, including as a pro bono member of the advisory boards at the MIT's Sloan School of Management, the Quantam Global Group, and the Official Monetary and Fianancial Institutions Forum (OMFIF). Dr Monga was the Economics editor for the 5-volume New Encyclopedia of Africa (Charles Scribner's, 2007). His published works have been translated into multiple languages.

Justin Yifu Lin is Councillor of the State Council and Professor and Honorary Dean of the National School of Development at Peking University. He was the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank, 2008-2012. Prior to this, Professor Lin served for 15 years as Founding Director and Professor of the China Centre for Economic Research (CCER) at Peking University. He is a member of the Standing Committee, Chinese People's Political Consultation Conference, and Vice Chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce. He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for Developing World.

Julius A. Agbor, Stellenbosch University
Olu Ajakaije, African Centre for Shared Development Capacity Building
Ragui Assaad, University of Minnesota
Gareth Austin, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Kathleen Beegle, World Bank and FAO
Nancy Benjamin, World Bank
Andrew Berg, International Monetary Fund
Arne Bigsten, University of Gothenburg
Fabien Eboussi Boulaga, Catholic University of Yaounde
Francois Bourguignon, Paris School of Economics
Laura Camfield, University of East Anglia
Calogero Carletto, World Bank and FAO
Nadareh Chamlou, World Bank
Ha-Joon Chang, University of Cambridge
Paul Collier, University of Oxford
Christopher Cramer, SOAS
Benjamin Davis, World Bank and FAO
Raj M. Desai, Georgetown University
Ibrahim Ahmed Elbadawi, Dubai Economic Council
Juliet Elu, Morehouse University
Hippolyte Fofack, World Bank
Maria E. (Mila) Freire, George Washington University
Alan Gelb, Center for Global Development
Stephen Golub, Swarthmore College
Patrick Guillaumont, FERDI
Catherine Guirkinger, University of Namur
Jane I. Guyer, Johns Hopkins University
Hakim Ben Hammouda, African Development Bank
Faraz Hayat, Swarthmore College
Anke Hoeffler, University of Oxford
Afeikhena Jerome, Nigeria Governors Forum
Morten Jerven, Simon Fraser University
Richard Joseph, Northwestern University
Caroline Krafft, University of Minnesota
Somik Lall, George Washington University
Danny Leipziger, George Washington University
Justin Yifu Lin, Peking University
Xubei Luo, World Bank
Takaaki Masaki, Cornell University
Ahmadou Aly Mbaye, University of Dakar
Christopher Malikane, University of Witwatersrand
Christian J. Meyer, Center for Global Development
Nadir Abdellatif Mohammed, World Bank
Celestin Monga, UNIDO
Roger B. Myerson, University of Chicago
Mustapha Kamel Nabli, African Development Bank
Mthuli Ncube, African Development Bank
Anders Olofsgard, Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics
Jean-Philippe Platteau, University of Namur
Gregory Price, Morehouse University
Vijaya Ramachandran, Center for Global Development
Felwine Sarr, University of Saint-Louis
Abebe Shimeles, African Development Bank
Tomonori Sudo, JICA Research Institute
Olumide Taiwo, Center for the Study of the Economics of Africa
Scott D. Taylor, Georgetown University
Melissa A. Thomas, Johns Hopkins University
Nicolas van de Walle, Cornell University
Warren C. Whatley, University of Michigan
Shu-Chun S. Yang, International Monetary Fund
Tarik m. Yousef, American University of Beirut
Luis-Felipe Zanna, International Monetary Fund
Alberto Zezza, World Bank and FAO