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  • Kenneth Cukier

    Senior Editor, The Economist

  • Alex Izurieta

    Senior Economic Affairs Officer , Division on Globalization and Development Strategies, UNCTAD

  • Justin Yifu Lin

    Dean, Institute of New Structural Economics

    Dean, Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development

    Professor and Honorary Dean, National School of Development at Peking University

  • ​Federica Carugati

    Program Director, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University

  • William C. Kirby

    Chang Professor of China Studies, Harvard University

    Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

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