M. Jae Moon is Underwood Distinguished Professor of Public Administration as well as Director of the Institute for Future Government at Yonsei University, South Korea. He was former Dean of the College of Social Sciences, Yonsei University, South Korea. He has been co-chairing the Infectious Disease Study Group of the National Research Council for Economics, Humanities, Social Sciences under the Prime Minister's Office. He is an elected Fellow of National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA). He served as International Director of American Society for Public Administration and Vice President of Korean Association of Public Administration as well as the Korean Association of Policy Studies. He was selected as one of world's 100 most influential people in Digital Government 2018 and 2019 consecutively by Apolitical which is a London-based leading nonprofit organization. He also received Order of Service Merit-Red Stripe from the Government of the Republic of Korea for his contribution to the public sector innovations as well as Donald C. Stone Award from the American Society for Public Administration in 2020.

Dong-Young Kim is Associate Professor and Director of the Master's in Development Policy program at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management, South Korea. His research interests include theory and practice of public dispute resolution and negotiation in developing countries, participatory and collaborative governance, and environmental policy and sustainable development. Dr. Kim has fifteen years' experience as a lecturer, researcher, and trainer on public dispute resolution, consensus building, negotiation, and participatory governance. He has extensive experience in training mid-career and senior government officials from many developing countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East, and in consulting various government institutions, such as the Prime Minister's Office, the Ministry of Environment, and the Ministry of Public Health and Welfare, public corporations, such as Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO), private sectors, such as Nong-Hyup, Citi Bank, Industrial Bank of Korea, and Pfizer Korea, and non-governmental organizations in Korea.