Dr. Naoyuki Yoshino is Professor Emeritus at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan and from 2014 until 2020 he was Dean & CEO of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI). He obtained his PhD from Johns Hopkins University (United States) in 1979 where his thesis supervisor was Sir Alan Walters, economic adviser to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Dr. Yoshino has been a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States) and a visiting professor at various universities including the University of New South Wales (Australia), Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (France), and University of Gothenburg (Sweden). He has also been an assistant professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo and an economics professor at Keio University (1990-2014). Dr. Yoshino's professional career includes membership in numerous government committees. He was named Director of the Japan Financial Services Agency's (FSA) Financial Research Center (FSA Institute) in 2004 and is now Chief Advisor. He was appointed as Chair of the Financial Planning Standards Board in 2007. He served as Chairperson of the Japanese Ministry of Finance's Council on Foreign Exchange as well as its Fiscal System Council (Fiscal Investment and Loan Program Section). Additionally, he was a Board Member of the Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan and President of the Financial System Council of the Government of Japan. He was nominated for inclusion in Who's Who in the World for 2009, 2013 and 2020. He obtained honorary doctorates from the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) in 2004 and Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (Germany) in 2013. He also received the Fukuzawa Award in 2013 for his contribution to research on economic policy. He served as the T20 Japan, Lead-chair during Japan's Presidency of the 2019 G20 meetings. He was also the Lead Co-chair of the T20 Infrastructure and Financing Task Force and advising on the handover to Saudi Arabia's presidency in 2020 and Italy’s Presidency in 2021. He is nominated as Top 10 scholars in green finance based on recent publications by Energy Policy in 2021.Dr. Rajendra N. Paramanik is Assistant Professor, economics and finance, IIT Patna. Prior to this he served as an assistant professor at BITS Pilani. He obtained his MA, M.Phil as well as PhD from University of Hyderabad and serves as reviewer of many international journals. He works on Macro-dynamic modeling and financial econometrics and has been invited as resource person for several workshops on Time Series Econometrics. His papers have been published in journals such as , Journal of Public Affairs (Wiley) , Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research (Springer), Journal of Quantitative Economics (Springer) , Economic Annals, GeoJournal: Spatially Integrated Social Sciences and Humanities (Springer), International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business (Inderscience) , Artha Vijnana,to name some. He also published research articles in edited volume of Springer, Taylor and Francis and Emerald. He writes editorial article for Hindu Business Line and he is passionate about Yoga and Poetry.Dr. Anoop S Kumar is Assistant Professor, Gulati Institute of Finance and Taxation, Trivandram, India. Prior to this, he has served at Central University of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad, and BITS Pilani, India. His work has been published in journals such as Journal of Public Affairs, IUP Journal of Applied Economics, Journal of Financial Innovations, Singapore Economic Review, Indian Economic Review, Economic Annals, to name some.
