Alessandro Golombiewski Teixeira. Professor Golombiewski Teixeira is Professor of Public Policy at School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University and Professor of International Business at Schwartzman College at Tsinghua University. He has spent his last 20 years working in academia, government, international institutions, and the private sector. His unique background offers a broad perspective in areas such as innovation and industrial policies, development policies, international trade, foreign direct investment, international marketing among others. Dr. Golombiewski Teixeira has more than two decades of extensive teaching and research experience in Europe, Latin America, and North America, across different courses ranging from undergraduates to postgraduates. More recently, he was Visiting Professor at Columbia University and Associate Senior Researcher at Denver University in the USA. He has held a lecturer and a research positions at the University ofSussex (UK) and in Brazilian Universities such University of São Paulo and Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, among others.

Aaron Schneider. Professor Schneider's work focuses on the intersection of wealth and power, and he has conducted research in Latin America, India, and Sub-Saharan Africa. In particular, he emphasizes the study of public finance as a window into the political economy of development and democracy. The way governments secure contributions from key social groups and how states decide what to do with the money tells a story about the nature of national political communities-who is in, who is out, and who will enjoy what benefits of membership. His books and articles address state-building, democracy, and development in Latin America and South Asia, urban politics and development in the United States, and the challenges of digital transformation.