Dennis C. Mueller is Professor of Economics, Emeritus at University of Vienna. Before coming to Vienna, he taught at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research interests include industrial economics, public choice, and constitutional political economy.

Dennis C. Mueller, Editor, is a Professor of Economics, Emeritus at University of Vienna. Before coming to Vienna, he was at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research interests are industrial economic, public choice and constitutional political economy.

William J. Baumol is Harold Price Professor of Entrepreneurship and Academic Director of the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at New York University; and Senior Economist and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University.

Thorsten Beck is a Professor of Economics at Tilburg University and Chairman of the European Banking Center, as well as a CEPR fellow. Before joining Tilburg University and the Center, he worked at the Development Research Group of the World Bank.

John C. Coffee, Jr. is the Adolf A. Berle Professor at the Columbia University Law School, and Director of its Center on Corporate Governance. He is a Fellow at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Martin J. Conyon is a Professor of Corporate Governance and Finance at Lancaster University and Senior Fellow and Lecturer at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Keith Cowling is a Professor, Emeritus at the University of Warwick. His research interests are in industrial economics, especially the deficiencies of monopoly capitalism, economics and democracy, industrial policy and corporate governance and the public interest.

Jeffry A. Frieden is a Professor at the Department of Government at Harvard University. His research focus is on the politics of international monetary and financial relations.

Victor Goldberg is the Jerome L. Greene Professor of Transactional Law at Columbia Law School. His areas of research are law and economics, antitrust, regulation, and contracts.

Tilman Klumpp is an Assistant Professor at the Economics Department at Emory University. His research fields are microeconomics, applied game theory, public economics, political economy, discrimination and industrial organization.

Robert E. Litan is vice president of research and policy at the Kauffmann Foundation.

Burton G. Malkiel is Chemical Bank Chairman's Professor of Economics, Emeritus and Senior Economist at Princeton University.

Randall Morck is Jarislowsky Distinguished Professor of Finance and University Professor at the School of Business at the University of Alberta. His research interests are corporate finance, economic development, and political economy.

Hiroyuki Odagiri is a Professor at Seijo University and Professor Emeritus at Hitotsubashi University. His research interests are: theory of the firm, industrial organization and economic studies of innovation.

Mark J. Roe is the David Berg Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. His research interests are corporate bankruptcy and reorganization, corporate finance and corporate law. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Richard R. Nelson is the George Blumenthal Professor Emeritus of International and Public Affairs, Business and Law at Columbia University. His research has concentrated on the processes of long-run economic change, with particular emphasis on technological advances and on the evolution of economic institutions.

Edmund S. Phelps is McVickar Professor of Political Economy at Columbia University and Director of the Columbia Center on Capitalism and Society. He was the winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics.

Paul H. Rubin is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Economics at Emory University. His main area of research is Law and Economics.

F. M. Scherer is Aetna Professor Emeritus at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. His research specialties are industrial economics and the economics of technological change.

Carl J. Schramm is the President and Chief Executive Officer at the Kauffmann Foundation.

David J. Teece is the Thomas W. Tusher Chair in Global Business and Director, Center for Global Strategy and Governance at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.

Philip R Tomlinson is a Lecturer at the School of Management at the University of Bath. His research interests are globalisation, governance, development and clusters.

Bernard Yeung is the Stephen Riady Distinguished Professor and Dean at NUS Business School, National University of Singapore.