Anton Korinek is a Professor at the Department of Economics and at the Darden School of Business of the University of Virginia as well as a David M. Rubenstein Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is also a Research Fellow at the CEPR, a Research Associate at the NBER, the Economics Lead at the Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI), a Senior Advisor at the Partnership on AI, and an editor of the Oxford Handbook of AI Governance.

Professor Korinek’s current research analyzes the implications of Artificial Intelligence for inequality and for the future of our economy and society. He has also investigated the mechanics of financial crises and developed policy measures to prevent future crises as well as an influential framework for capital flow regulation in emerging economies. His research has been published in top journals including the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Econometrics, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of International Economics and the Journal of Public Economics. It has also been cited on Bloomberg, in the Economist, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He has won several fellowships and awards for this work, including from the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Longview Philanthropy, and the Hewlett Foundation.

Anton Korinek studied economics, math and law at the University of Vienna and worked for several years at the intersection of IT and finance. After earning his PhD in economics from Columbia University in 2007, he held positions at the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University and was a visiting scholar at Harvard University, the Bank for International Settlements, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, as well as a frequent visitor to central banks and companies, where he has given lectures and courses.

Ben CHAROENWONG is an assistant professor of finance at the National University of Singapore. He completed a Ph.D. in Finance and MBA at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 2017. His research focuses on financial regulation, corporate governance, household finance, and corporate finance, and has been published in journals like the American Economic Review, Science Advances, Review of Finance, and Manufacturing and Service Operations Management.

His research has been cited in policy reports by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and the French Council of Economic Analysis, as well as industry reports by the CFA Institute. It has also been covered by multiple media outlets like The Economist, Reuters, and Seeking Alpha.

Zheng (Michael) SONG is Wei Lun Professor of Economics and the Head of the Department of Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), a Co-Director of CUHK-Tsinghua Joint Research Center for Chinese Economy, a Co-Director of CUHK-Zhejiang University Joint Research Center for Digital Economy and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University and Zhejiang University. He received B.A. from Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade (1997), M.A. from Fudan University (2000) and Ph.D. from Stockholm University (2005). Before joining CUHK, he was an Assistant/Associate Professor of Economics at Chicago Booth (2011-15), a Visiting Scholar/Assistant Professor of Economics at CUHK (2009-11) and a Research Fellow at Fudan University (2005-09). He is a Senior Fellow of ABFER and a Fellow of Luohan Academy. His research focuses on Chinese economy and macroeconomics. His papers were published by leading academic journals including American Economic Review, Econometrica and Journal of Political Economy. He won Sunyefang Economic Science Award in 2013. He is an Associate Editor of Econometrica, Review of Finance and was a Co-Editor of China Economic Review. He sits on a number of academic advisory boards such as China’s Economics Foundation and Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research.