Hong Liu is the Tan Lark Sye Chair Professor in Public Policy and Global Affairs in the School of Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is also the Associate Vice President and Director of Research and Executive Education of the Nanyang Centre for Public Administration at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Cheun Hoe Yow is an Associate Professor in the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he is Director of the Chinese Heritage Centre and Director of the Centre for Chinese Language and Culture.

Huimei Zhang is a Senior Research Fellow at the Nanyang Centre for Public Administration at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She also serves as Assistant Director of Research at Chinese Heritage Centre, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.