Sir Tony Atkinson is Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Nuffield College, of which he was Warden from 1994 to 2005. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and has been President of the Royal Economic Society, of the Econometric Society, of the European Economic Association, and of the International Economic Association. He was responsible for the Atkinson Review of Measurement of Government Output. He has been a member of the Conseil d'Analyse Economique, advising the French Prime Minister. He was knighted on 2001 for services to economics, and is a Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur. He is author of Unequal Shares, The Economics of Inequality, Lectures on Public Economics (with J.E. Stiglitz), Poverty and Social Security, Public Economics in Action, The Economic Consequences of Rolling Back the Welfare State, Social Indicators and The EU and Social Inclusion (both with B Cantillon, E Marlier and B Nolan), and The Changing Distribution of Earnings in OECD Countries.

Thomas Piketty is a New York Times best-selling author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Harvard University Press), and a Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics, of which he was the founder and first director from 2005 to 2007. He obtained his PhD in economics from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris) and the London School of Economics in 1993. He then taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)'s Economics Department, before returning to France in 1996. He is the author of numerous articles published in journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Political Economy, the American Economic Review, and the Review of Economic Studies, and of several books. He received Le Monde's Best Young Economist Award in 2002. He is also the co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics and co-director of CEPR's Public Policy Programme.

Ralph Aaberge, Research Department, Statistics Norway
Facundo Alvaredo, University of Oxford
Anthony B. Atkinson, Nuffield College, Oxford
Abhijit Banerjee, MIT
Markus Jäntti, Stockholm University
Andrew Leigh, Australian National University
Chiaki Moriguchi, Northwestern University
Thomas Piketty, Paris School of Economics
Elena Pisano, University of Rome La Sapienza
Nancy Qian, Brown University
Marja Riihelä, Government Institute for Economic Research
Jesper Roine, Stockholm School of Economics
Emmanuel Saez, University of California-Berkeley
Risto Sullströmand, Government Institute for Economic Research
Matti Tuomala, University of Tampere
Pierre van der Eng, Australian National University
Daniel Waldenström, Research Institute of Industrial Economic