He is a professor of the Practice of Economic Policy jointly at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and the Department of Economics at Harvard University. He is also nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. This followed eight years as a top economic adviser to President Obama, including serving as the 28th Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from August 2013 to January 2017, acting as both President Obama’s chief economist and a member of the cabinet. During this time Furman played a major role in most of the major economic policies of the Obama Administration. In public policy, Furman worked at both the Council of Economic Advisers and National Economic Council during the Clinton administration and also at the World Bank. In research, Furman was a Director of the Hamilton Project and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. 

He is the Max L. Heine Professor of Finance at New York University, Stern School of Business. Philippon was named one of the “top 25 economists under 45” by the IMF in 2014. Philippon has studied various topics in macroeconomics and finance: systemic risk, crisis resolution mechanisms, the dynamics of corporate investment and household debt, and the size of the finance industry. His recent work has focused on the Eurozone crisis, financial regulation, and the market power of large firms. He currently serves as an academic advisor to the Financial Stability Board and to the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research. Philippon graduated from Ecole Polytechnique, received a Ph.D in Economics from MIT, and joined New York University in 2003.

Since joining Lotte Shopping in 2018, he has been in charge of search, recommendation, chatbot, dynamic pricing, and product catalog systems at Lotteon, an integrated online and offline service platform. After graduating from the Department of Computer Engineering at Pohang University of Science and Technology, he acted as a founding member of the DieQuest search engine company while pursuing his master's degree. He worked on the Nate, Empas, and Cyworld portal service integration project as the head of the search planning team at SK communication. He led major projects such as building product search ads. He has also served as the head of the Korean branch, the head of the Japanese branch and the general director of B2B platform & sales at Gshopper, a cross-border e-commerce company.

He is a veteran of Airbnb’s Asia Pacific leadership team, and is currently responsible for engagement with government and community leaders across the region. He brings a wealth of experience from his previous role as General Manager for Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and Taiwan where he led Airbnb’s business and operations. Before joining Airbnb, Mike led Google's public policy efforts for emerging markets in Asia. He was previously at the US-ASEAN Business Council in Washington D.C, and he represented leading U.S. investors in Southeast Asia on complex trade and investment issues across a variety of industries. Mike grew up in Kuala Lumpur and graduated from Stanford University.

Christian Heller is seconded from BASF to the Value Balancing Alliance, which was launched in 2019 in Germany. The Alliance is a non-for profit organization to harmonize and standardize how companies measure and value their contribution to society, nature and the wider economy. In addition, the Alliance the develops a methodology how natural, social, and human capital needs to be reflected in accounting. The Alliance consists of companies such as SK, Novartis and LafargeHolcim (Switzerland), Kering (France), Mitsubishi Chemicals (Japan), BASF, Bosch, Deutsche Bank, Porsche, Schaeffler and SAP from Germany. The Alliance is supported by Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC and cooperates with a variety of organizations from business (such as the Impact Management Project and WBCSD), the civil society (such as the Capital Coalition and Global Solutions Initiative), politics (such as the World Bank and OECD), and academia (such as Harvard Business School and Oxford University). The Alliance is mandated by the EU to develop green accounting standards to support the implementation of the Green Deal. Previously at BASF, Heller was responsible e.g. for the Value-to-Society program, the human rights program and stakeholder relations.

He completed his bachelor's degree and master's degree in economics at the University of Paris X (University of Nanterre). He worked at private banks and insurance companies for 7 years, and has been working for 23 years in the OECD since 1997. Following Dr. Randall Jones, an American economist who served as the Korean economy official for 26 years since 1993, Andre became the second Korean economy official in the OECD in July, 2019. Andre has been in charge of Sweden and Finland in the OECD for nearly 10 years, and is well versed in the Nordic economy. 

He is a leading economist in the fields of Financial Economics, International Economics, and Macroeconomics. He received his Ph.D in Economics in 2002 at Harvard University after his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Economics at Yonsei University. Currently, he is a professor of economics in the School of Economics at Yonsei University. He has remarkable international academic publications and received various academic awards including the ‘CheongRam’ Award of the Korean Economic Association that is given to an academic scholar in economics under the age of 45 with the most outstanding academic research record in Korea.