Dr. Jiang Kejun served as the director of Energy Research Institute (ERI), National Development and Reform Commission, China from 2000 to 2010. He began research on climate change relative to energy policy analysis in 1993, focusing on energy technology policy assessment, energy supply policy assessment, renewable energy development and energy conservation. From 1997, Dr. Jiang participated in Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Third Assessment Report and was a lead author for the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (Working Group Three Chapter 3). Dr. Jiang's recent studies include energy and emission scenarios, assessment on energy and fuel tax, research on China's potential to achieve its energy targets and development of the Integrated Policy Assessment model. He received his Ph.D. in Social Engineering from the Department of Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Dr. Chai Qimin now is the director and associate professor of International Cooperation Department in National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, deputy director of Research Center for Green Finance and Sustainable Development in University of International Business and Economics, and guesting professor of Research Center for Contemporary Management in Tsinghua University and Guizhou Institute of Technology.
He was once the deputy mayor of a western city in China, and also the deputy director of Development and Reform Commission in local governments from 2013 to 2014 on secondment. He currently serves as the delegate of Chinese Government Delegation of UN Climate Negotiations, and advisor of local governments for Low Carbon City and Emission Trading Scheme Pilots, columnist of China Daily and Caixin Finance.

Dr. Angel Hsu is an Assistant Professor of Social Sciences (Environmental Studies) at Yale-NUS College and Adjunct of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. She is Founder and Director of Data-Driven Lab, a multidisciplinary research team of policy researchers, data scientists, programmers, and visual communicators. Her research explores the intersection of science and policy and the use of data-driven approaches to understand environmental sustainability, particularly in the areas of climate change and energy, urbanization and air quality. Her invited TED 2018 Annual Conference talk on China's climate leadership has been viewed more than a million times. She holds a PhD in Forestry and Environmental Studies from Yale University.