Dr. Ganeshan Wignaraja is the Professorial Fellow in Economics and Trade at Gateway House in India and a Senior Research Associate at the UK’s Overseas Development Institute (ODI). He is also the Advisor to the President of Sri Lanka on Strategic Trade Policy, a Board Member of the Geopolitical Cartographer and a Member of a committee at the Central Bank of Sri Lanka on monetary policy and financial stability. Previously, he was the Director of Research at the Asian Development Bank Institute, a Visiting Scholar at the IMF, Head of Trade and Competitiveness at Maxwell Stamp PLC and the Executive Director of Sri Lanka’s Foreign Ministry think tank. He has a DPhil in economics from Oxford University and has published extensively on macroeconomics, international trade, economic development and geoeconomics.

Shantayanan Devarajan is Professor of the Practice of International Development at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, where he teaches development policy, fragility and conflict, and climate change. He is also an advisor to the governments of Maldives and Sri Lanka and to the Ebony Center in South Sudan. He spent 28 years at the World Bank, where he was the Senior Director for Development Economics, the Chief Economist of the South Asia, Africa, and Middle East and North Africa regions and of the Human Development Network, and Research Manager for Public Economics. Before joining the World Bank, he was on the faculty of Harvard Kennedy School. The author or co-author of over 150 publications, his research covers public economics, trade policy, natural resources and the environment, political economy, and general-equilibrium modeling of developing countries. Born in Sri Lanka, Shanta received his A.B. in mathematics from Princeton University and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Satu P. Limaye is Vice President of the East-West Center and Director of Research, East-West Center in Washington, and interim director of the Professional Development Program. He created and directs the Asia Matters for America initiative and is the founding editor of the Asia Pacific Bulletin.  He is also a Senior Advisor at CNA Corp (Center for Naval Analyses).  He is a graduate of Georgetown University and received his doctorate from Oxford University (Magdalen College) where he was a George C. Marshall Scholar.

He publishes and speaks on Indo-Pacific regional issues and supports various US government, foundation, fellowship, and professional organizations. He recently served on the Center for New American Security (CNAS) Task Force on the US-Philippines Alliance, United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Senior Study Group on the North Pacific, Project 2049 Study Group on the US-Australia Alliance, and Global Taiwan Institute-Taiwan Asia Exchange Foundation project on Taiwan’s New Southbound Policy. He serves on the Korea Economic Institute (KEI) Advisory Council and editorial board of East Asian Policy and regional editor of Global Asia.