Ahmed M. Khalid is an Adjunct Professor and former Dean of UBD School of Business and Economics, Universiti Brunei Darussalam and Visiting Professor at the Department of Economics, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan. He holds a PhD in economics from Johns Hopkins University, USA. He previously worked at Bond Business School, Bond University, Australia, and the National University of Singapore. He has considerable experience of working as a consultant with the World Bank and as an adviser to the Ministry of Planning Development and Special Initiatives, Pakistan, as well as visiting appointments at various academic and research institutions. He is the editor-in-chief of Journal of Business and Economic Analysis and associate editor of The Singapore Economic Review and member of the editorial boards of several regional and international journals. His publications include five books, several refereed journal articles, chapters in books and numerous consultancy/project reports, technical reports, working papers and conference papers. His most recent publication, as coeditor, is Economic integration among D-8 Muslim countries (2023).

Bruno Jetin is currently an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, Politics and Social Sciences, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France, and he holds a PhD in economics from the same university. He was previously an Associate Professor and former Director of the Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam. His current work focuses on the geopolitics of electric batteries, corruption and foreign direct investment, income distribution and growth in Asia, and the Belt and Road Initiative. His recent publications include: Wage-led demand as a rebalancing strategy for economic growth in China. Journal of Post Keynesian Economics 43(3) (2020, with Luis Reyes-Ortiz); Electric batteries and critical materials dependency: A geopolitical analysis of the USA and the European Union. International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management 23(4) (2023); and, The effect of corruption on foreign direct investment at the regional level: Positive or negative relationship? In Corruption and illegality in Asian investment arbitration, ed. Nobumichi Teramura, Luke Nottage and Bruno Jetin (2024, with Jamel Saadaoui and Haingo Ratiarison).