Christian Dustmann is Professor of Economics at University College London (UCL), Honorary Professor at Humboldt University Berlin, Director of the Rockwool Foundation Berlin Institute for the Economy and the Future of Work (RFBerlin), and founding Director of the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM). He is a leading labor economist who has worked on topics such as migration, the economics of education, the economics of crime, social networks, technology, income mobility, wage dynamics, and inequality. Professor Dustmann has been a visiting professor at UC Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale. He served as President of the Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics (AASLE) (2017-2021), which he co-founded. He has also served as President of the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) and the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE). Professor Dustmann is an elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), the Academy of Europe (Academia Europaea), the Econometric Society, and the Society of Labor Economists (SOLE). In 2020, Professor Dustmann received the Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Prize from the German National Academy of Sciences for scientific contributions to socially important challenges. Dustmann is the first economist honored with this prize. In 2023, he received the Reimar Luest Prize for International Science and Cultural Communication, awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. In the 2019 German Economic Association ranking, he was first among economists in German-speaking countries and German economists abroad. He regularly advises government bodies, international organizations, and the media on policy issues.

Thomas Lemieux is a Professor at UBC's Vancouver School of Economics. Prior to moving to UBC in 1999, Professor Lemieux held appointments at the Université de Montréal and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Society of Labor Economists, and the Econometric Society. Professor Lemieux is a past President of the Society of Labor Economists and of the Canadian Economics Association, which awarded him the Rae Prize for outstanding research in 1998. He has served as co-editor major journals in economics, including the American Economic Review. Lemieux has written extensively on labour markets and earnings inequality in Canada, the United States and other countries. He has also made contributions to the methodology of empirical research in labour economics.