Masahiko Aoki is professor emeritus of economics at Stanford University. He is the president of the International Economic Association (2008–2011) and was a former president of the Japanese Economic Association. In 2007, he created the Virtual Center for Advanced Studies in Institutions, based in Tokyo. He founded the Research Centre of the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (M.E.T.I.) in 2001 and served as its director until 2004.
Professor Aoki has been an adviser on developmental issues at the World Bank since 1997. He was awarded the Joseph Schumpeter Prize in 1998.

Robert Boyer is a directeur d’études at Ecole des Hautes Etudes Sciences Sociales (E.H.E.S.S.) and G.R.E.D.E.G. (Groupe de Recherche en Droit, Économie et Gestion), a CNRS unit based in Nice. He is also professor honoris causa at Buenos Aires University and at the University of Leuven in Belgium.
Professor Boyer is President of the Association Recherche et Régulation and currently a visiting scholar at the Copenhagen Business School.

Bernard Gazier is a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He is a professor of economics at the University of Paris-I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and a researcher at the Centre for Economics M.A.T.I.S.S.E.–C.E.S. (a joint research unit of the University of Paris 1 and the French National Centre for Scientific Research). He is also the President of the Société de Port-Royal.

Inge Kaul is a professor at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin and acts as policy adviser to various think tanks and international organizations. She was the first director of the United Nations Development Program (U.N.D.P.) Human Development Report Office, a position that she held from 1989 to 1994. She was director of the U.N.D.P.’s Office of Development Studies until 2005.

Hans-Helmut Kotz is a member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank and an honorary professor of economics at the University of Freiburg. He sits on the Advisory Board of the Revue d’Economie Financière, the Panel of Financial Experts for the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Program Council of the Center for Financial Studies in Frankfurt.

Thierry Martin is a professor of the philosophy of science at the University of Franche-Comté in Besançon, France. He is the director of the Centre for Philosophical Research on the Logic of Action and a researcher at the Institute for History, Philosophy of Science and Technology in France. Professor Martin is president of the Société de Philosophie des Sciences (S.P.S.) and a co-editor of the complete works of Augustin Cournot.

Robert Solow is Institute Professor Emeritus of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1987, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his contributions to economic growth theory, and, in 1999, the U.S. National Medal of Science. He is a former president of the American Academy of Sciences and of the Econometrics Society. He is currently the Robert K. Merton Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation.