Biographical note

Edward Surendran Robinson is the Deputy Managing Director of the Economic Policy Group, which is responsible for the formulation of the Monetary Authority of Singapore's (MAS) monetary policy and macro prudential surveillance. He has been with the MAS since 1992. Edward has a particular interest in macro econometric modeling and heads the team responsible for continuing developmental work for the suite of MAS models, which are used for policy analysis. He has also been involved in other areas of economic policy work including in various inter-agency work groups which looked at the structural challenges facing the Singapore economy. He served on the Board of the Singapore Competition Commission between 2005 and 2007. He studied economics and applied econometrics at Monash University and the University of Melbourne. Steven J Davis studies business dynamics, hiring practices, job loss, the effects of economic uncertainty and other topics. His research appears in the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics and other leading scholarly journals. He is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, senior academic fellow with the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research, advisor to the US Congressional Budget Office, visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, senior adviser to the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, and past editor of the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics. He is also an elected fellow of the Society of Labor Economists. Bernard Yeung is Stephen Riady Distinguished Professor in Finance and Strategic Management at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School. He is also the President of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research. He was Dean of NUS Business School from 2008 to 2019. Before joining NUS, he was the Abraham Krasnoff Professor in Global Business, Economics, and Management at New York University (NYU) Stern School of Business and the Director of the NYU China House. From 1988 to 1999, he taught at the University of Michigan and at the University of Alberta from 1983 to 1988. Professor Yeung has published widely in top tier academic journals covering topics in Finance, Economics, and Strategy. He won the Public Administration Silver Medal (2018) in Singapore, Irwin Outstanding Educator Award (2013) from the Academy of Management and is an elected Fellow of the Academy of International Business. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 1984.