Anat R. Admati is the George G.C. Parker Professor of Finance and Economics at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business (GSB), a Director of the GSB Corporations and Society Initiative, and a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. She is an economist with broad cross-disciplinary interests in the interactions between business, law and policy, and an advocate for better governance and accountability in the private sector and in government. She is also the co-author of The Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do About It, (Princeton University Press, New Edition, 2024).

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Sunil Sharma is a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Institute for International Economic Policy, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University, Washington DC, USA, a Senior Associate at the Council on Economic Policies, Zurich, Switzerland, and an Advisory Council Member, North Star Transition, London, United Kingdom. He was Assistant Director in the IMF’s Research Department from 2015- 2018, and the Director of the IMF-Singapore Regional Training Institute in Singapore (STI) from 2006-2015. Before moving to Singapore in 2006, Sunil was Chief of the IMF Institute’s Asian Division in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the IMF in 1992, he was on the Economics faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). 

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Indermit Gill is Chief Economist of the World Bank Group and Senior Vice President for Development Economics. Before starting this position on September 1, 2022, he served as the World Bank’s Vice President for Equitable Growth, Finance, and Institutions, where he helped shape the Bank’s response to the extraordinary series of shocks that have hit developing economies since 2020. His work includes introducing the concept of the “middle-income trap” to describe how countries stagnate after reaching a certain level of income. The 2024 World Development Report, prepared with his guidance, highlights strategies for countries to escape the middle-income trap—by adopting modern technologies and driving innovation.

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Erik Feyen is Head of Global Macro-Financial Monitoring and Lead Financial Sector Economist in the Finance Global Practice of the World Bank. In this capacity, he leads the research of global macro-financial vulnerabilities and trends; has oversight responsibility for financial sector aspects in World Bank country strategies; and directs the Finance & Prosperity report, the World Bank’s annual assessment of the financial sector, markets, and related policies in emerging market and developing economies.

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