Hyeng Joon Park received a BA in Civil Engineering from Seoul National University and a PhD in International Political Economy from York University, Canada. He was a researcher at the Corea Institute for a New Society, and is currently a vice-director of the Global Political Economy Institute. He is the author of Chaebol, the Dominant Transnational Capital of South Korea. He has also translated (Korean) Mellan tillvaxt och trygghet, Mismeasuring Our Lives, and The Stiglitz Report: Reforming the International Monetary and Financial Systems in the Wake of the Global Crisis, and co-translated Unholy Trinity: The IMF, World Bank and WTO.
Richard G. Wilkinson is the emeritus professor of Social Epidemiology at the University of Nottingham, honorary professor at University College London, and visiting professor at the University of York. His publications and research articles have examined the tendency for the increase in problems of the public in societies with a widened class gap. He is the co-author of The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone, which has been published in 24 languages worldwide.
Michel Bauwens is the founder and director of P2P (Peer-to-Peer) Foundation and the co-founder of the Commons Strategies Group, which hosted international conferences on commons and economy. He has conducted international collaborative research on Peer Production, governance, and capital. As the research director of FLOKsociety.org—established by the Ecuadorian government for the “social knowledge economy”—Bauwens developed the “Commons Implementation Plan.”
Kate Raworth received an MSC in Economics for Development and International Development from Oxford University. She is now the senior researcher of the international non-governmental organization, Oxfam. Also working as the senior researcher at the Environmental Change Institute of Oxford University and the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership of the University of Cambridge, Raworth conducts research on the new economic development paradigm to achieve social equilibrium and the issue of human rights on a planetary level. She is the co-author of State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible? and the publication of her book Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist is forthcoming in Korea.
