Fan Gang is Director of National Economics Research Institute, China Reform Foundation, professor at the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), and member and vice secretary-general of Chinese Economists 50 Forum.

Nicholas Stern is IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government at the London School of Economics, where he is also head of the India Observatory within LSE's Asia Research Centre, and Chairman of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, UK.

Ottmar Edenhofer is professor of the Economics of Climate Change at the Technical University Berlin, Germany, and Co-Chair of the Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC which won the Nobel Peace Price in 2007.

XU Shanda has held a range of high-level roles with China's State Administration of Taxation and the Ministry of Finance, most recently as Vice Minister of the SAT.

Klas Eklund is Senior Economist of SEB, Norway, and adjunct Professor of Economics at the University of Lund.

Frank Ackerman is the director of the Climate Economics Group at the US centre of the Stockholm Environment Institute.

Lailai Li is Asia Centre Director at the Stockholm Environment Institute.

Karl Hallding heads Stockholm Environment Institute's China Cluster.