Professor Maria P. Aristigueta is the President of the American Society for Public Administration, Charles P. Messick Chair in Public  Administration, Associate Director of the School  of Public Policy and Administration, and Senior Policy Fellow in the Institute of Public Administration at the University of Delaware. She is also a Fellow-Elect of the National Academy of Public Administration.
Her teaching and research interests are primarily in the areas of public sector management and include performance measurement, strategic planning, and organizational behavior. She has published numerous journal articles, book chapters, and books including, Managing for Results in State Government; co-author of Man- aging Human Behavior in Public  and Nonprofit Organizations, Managing and Measuring Performance in Public  and Nonprofit Organizations: An Integrated Approach, and Organizational Behavior; and co-editor of the International Handbook of Practice-Based Performance Management.  Her doctorate is from the University of Southern California.

Dr Geert  Bouckaert is professor of public management at the KU Leuven Public  Governance Institute at the KU Leuven  University, Leuven,  Belgium. He is president of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences  (IIAS),  and past-president of the European Group for Public Administration (EGPA).

He published in the field  of public sector reforms and its different aspects of performance, co-ordination, trust, and change.  He is a member of editorial boards such as Public Administration Review,  Journal of Public  Administration Research  and Theory, and Public  Performance and Management Review.  He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public  Administration (USA)  and has been awarded several  Honorary Doctorates

Professor Tobin  Im is the incumbent President of the Korean  Association of Public Administration (KAPA) and Professor of Graduate School  of Public  Administration at Seoul National University, South  Korea. Professor Im was also the former President of the Korean Association for Time Studies.
Professor Im obtained his Ph.D in Sociology at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, France and has published extensively with over  130 articles and 30 books in English  and Korean.  His research focuses on  public administration, organisational theory and comparative public administration. His recent works include Public  Administration (2014)  and Bureaucracy in Three Different Worlds: The Assumptions of Failed  Public  Sector Reforms in Korea  (2013).

Professor Yu Keping is a leading scholar and advocator of democratic governance in China. He is the founding Director of China Centre for Comparative Politics and Economics (CCCPE), he has served  as, among many  others, Professor & Director of the Centre for Chinese Government Innovations at Peking  University, and Professor & Director of the Institute of Political Development at Tsinghua University. His major  fields  include political philosophy, comparative politics, globalization, civil  society, governance and politics in China. Among his many  books are Essays on Modernizing State Governance (Beijing, 2015), Globalization and Changes  in China’s Governance (Brill,  2013), Governance and Rule of Law in China (ed., Brill, 2012) and Democracy Is A Good  Thing (Brookings, 2010).
Professor Yu has a number of honorary titles of professors and doctors at many universities and was selected to be as “30  most influential figures in the past 30 years since the Reform in China”  in 2008 and ranked 19 of “2011 Global Top 100 Thinkers” by Foreign Policy  in the US. The China Quarterly in July of 2015 published a special  article which reviews systematically “Yu Keping and Chinese Intellectual Discourse on Good  Governance”.

Professor Xie Weihe  is currently Vice Chairman of the University Council and Dean of the Institute of Educational Research, Tsinghua University, China.  Professor Xie had previously served as Vice President of Beijing Normal University from 1997 to 2002, and Chairman of University Council,  Capital Normal University from 2002-2004.  He joined Tsinghua University in 2004 and later became Vice President in charge of humanities and social sciences  and international affairs  up to September 2015.
His research interests lie in the areas of educational theories, higher education and sociology of education. He has published extensively in both English  and Chinese on education policy, education equity, and employment of graduates. Professor Xie’s academic achievements have been widely recognized internationally. He was invited to give  lectures as a specialist in Chinese education at Columbia University, Oxford University, and other universities across the world.

Professor Zhu Guanglei is the Vice President of Nankai  University, “Cheung Kong  Scholars” Programme Distinguished Professor, member of the State Council Subject Consultative Group, Deputy Director of the Colleges and Universities Political Science  Steering Committee, Vice President of China Public  Sectors Reform Research  Council,  and Vice Chairman of Tianjin Federation of Social Science. His works mainly focus on Chinese government and politics and Chinese social class differentiation and include Analysis of Contemporary Chinese Social Class, The Governmental Process of Contemporary China, Modern Government Theory,  Governing China – Decision Making and Implementation: Interpretation of the Processes  of the Chinese Government.
Since 1993, Professor Zhu enjoys  Special  Allowance from the State Council.  In 2003, he received the National Distinguished Teacher  award.  His course  on “Chinese government and politics” was selected as national excellent course  in 2004, and the “Chinese  government and policy teaching group” was honoured the National Outstanding Team in 2008.