Dr Niaz Asadullah received his Doctorate degree in the Economics of Education from Oxford University in 2005. He is currently a Professor of Development Economics at Monash University Malaysia. Previously he held visiting positions at Harvard, Oxford, Malaya, Manchester, Kent, Dhaka, BRAC, Chulalongkorn and Mindanao State Universities. His research relates to education, labor market, skills formation, poverty and gender issues with a focus on South/East Asia. In addition to 50+ peer reviewed journal publications, Prof Asadullah has published numerous policy commentaries and opinion pieces on education issues in the international media (print as well as electronic).

Mostak Ahamed is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Finance at the Department of Accounting and Finance, University of Sussex Business School, UK. He holds a PhD in business and management from the Queen Mary University of London. He undertakes research to overcome the obstacles of financial development with special emphasis on access to finance, bank and firm performance while using robust econometric techniques and large cross-country panel data. The research questions that he addresses are motivated by and engaged with contemporary policy issues. His recent papers appeared on Economics Letters, Economic Modelling, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of Financial Stability, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, and British Journal of Industrial Relations.

Caspa is a humanitarian and development worker at the UNESCO field Office in Bamenda, NW Region, Cameroon. He assist in the implementation of the the UNESCO's EiM projects in the North West Region of Cameroon that is undergoing a four year old armed conflict, with a great attack on education.

Sally Broughton Micova is a Lecturer in Communications Policy and Politics at the University of East Anglia and member of its Centre for Competition Policy. Her research focuses on policy and regulation in media and communications. Her most recent publications include work on audiovisual media and online platform policy, public service media, and minority language media. She is active in policy making processes as well, contributing regularly to consultations and inquires at the European Union and the United Kingdom levels on issues related to media and internet policy. She is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Regulation in Europe (CERRE) in Brussels, where she recently conducted an investigation into audiovisual advertising inspired by the debates about the regulation of audiovisual media services and video sharing platforms. She is also a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where she was previously Deputy Director of the LSE Media Policy Project and an LSE Research and Teaching Fellow in Media Governance and Policy, and a Visiting Lecturer at the Institute of Communication Studies in Skopje, Macedonia. She completed a PhD in Media and Communications at the LSE in 2013. Before entering academia in 2009, she spent over a decade working in international organisations, and continues to serve as an occasional expert for the Council of Europe, EU institutions, and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe.