Peter Saunders is one of Australia's foremost experts on poverty, social inequality and social security and has published extensively on these topics nationally and internationally. He is currently the President of the Foundation for International Studies on Social Security and in 2015-2016 was a member of the World Bank Commission on Global Poverty.

Alex Jingwei He is Associate Head and Associate Professor of the Department of Asian and Policy Studies at the Education University of Hong Kong. He specializes in health policy and governance and social policy reforms with a particular focus on East Asian Chinese societies.