Hans Mahncke, LL.B. (Hons.), LL.M., is an Assistant Professor at the School of Law at City University of Hong Kong. His research interests include international economic and WTO law, and common law history and method. He also teaches and publishes in these areas. Hans currently serves as a contributing editor to Halsbury’s Laws of Hong Kong and is a member of the editorial board of the Hong Kong Lawyer.

Bill Stacey is the Chairman of Hong Hong’s leading free market think tank, The Lion Rock Institute. He is also on the Board of Advisors of the Mannkal Economic Education Foundation. Professionally, Bill has been an executive with leading financial institutions in Asia and globally. He is currently a partner in boutique equity house, Aviate Global.

Larry E. Ribstein is the Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Chair in Law at University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign. Professor Ribstein is the author of many books, including the forthcoming The Rise of the Uncorporation (2009). From 1998-2001 he was coeditor of the Supreme Court Economic Review. His blog site focusing on business law is located at www.ideoblog. org and his webpage is located at www.ribstein.org.

Andrew P. Morriss is H. Ross & Helen Workman Professor of Law and Business and Professor at the Institute for Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is a Research Fellow of the NYU Center for Labor and Employment Law and is the author or coauthor of more than fifty book chapters and scholarly articles. Professor Morriss recently released the book, Regulation by Litigation (with Bruce Yandle and Andrew Dorchak).

Arnold Kling is an economist and member of the Financial Markets Working Group of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. In the 1980s and 1990s he was an economist with the Federal Reserve Board and then with Freddie Mac. He blogs at econlog.econlib.org.

Wallace Chan works with Canada’s largest and most prestigious free market think tank, The Fraser Institute, as their Coordinator, Chinese Affairs. He received his Bachelor of Commerce at the University of BC in 1994, a Bachelor of Education at the University of BC in 1998, and a Master of Economics at the University of Hong Kong in 2006. He has been published widely in Hong Kong and Canadian Chinese language publications.

Dr. Khalil Ahmad founded and heads the Alternate Solutions Institute, the first free market think tank of Pakistan. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from University of the Punjab, and until 2006 taught courses on Philosophy and Education. He frequently contributes articles on current issues to various local and foreign newspapers. Alternate Solutions Institute is located at www.asinstitute.org.

Dr. Eamonn Butler is Director of the Adam Smith Institute, a market economics think tank based in London, and is a leading figure in the development of public policy in the United Kingdom. He’s written numerous academic and non-academic books including the latest, The Rotten State of Britain. He is Vice President of the Mont Pelerin Society, an international academy of free market economists and political theorists, and lectures and writes internationally on policy issues.

Pierre Gave joined GaveKal in 2001 and is today their Head of Global Research, coordinating the entire research process and contributing to the writing of the firm’s Five Corners, Ad Hocs, and Quarterly Strategy Chart Books. Pierre also meets regularly with GaveKal Research clients and speaks at GaveKal’s investment conferences, and Seminars. Pierre launched his career in 1998 as a financial analyst at a venture capital firm in Stockholm, where he specialized on company valuations.

Michael Ying worked as the General Manager of an online English language education company for the past three years. In 2004, he received his undergraduate degree in Political Science (minors in Legal Studies, and Philosophy) from Macalester College (St. Paul, MN). He now works with The Lion Rock Institute and continues to assist in the operations of the language education company.