Kin Bing Wu was Lead Education Specialist for China and Mongolia at the World Bank. She had worked in 26 countries in East Asia, South Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean Region during her career at the World Bank that spanned over two decades. She has covered low-income, middle-income economies, transitional economies, and post-confliect countries. Her World Bank and academic publications have dealt with the finance and efficiency of education systems, and public policies toward education.

Donghoon Lee is a senior economist in the Microeconomics Studies Function at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. His primary research interests include labor economics and household finance. He has been working on estimation of equilibrium models in the US labor market, developing econometric and computational methods, and empirical works on household finance in the area of housing finance and education finance.

Lee received a B.A. from Seoul National University in 1996, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2001.