•Tan Loong Hoe is Senior Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. He is also Coordinator of the Institute's ASEAN Economic Research Unit.
•Chia Siow Yue is Associate Professor of Economics, National University of Singapore. She is also consultant to the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and a coordinator of several research projects dealing with trade and industrialization