Khalid Ikram has been associated with Egypt's economy for more than forty years, including as director of the World Bank's Egypt department. His international consultancies include governments, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, USAID, DFID, ITZ, OECD, UNCTAD, UNDP, and leading private institutions. He is the author of Egypt: Economic Management in a Period of Transition (1981), The Egyptian Economy, 1952-2000: Performance, Policies and Issues (2006), and The Political Economy of Reforms in Egypt: Issues and Policymaking since 1952 (AUC Press, pbk edition, 2021). His awards include the Korean President's medal for services to Korean development.

Heba Nassar is professor of economics at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science and former vice-president of Cairo University. She is also chief editor of the Review of Economics and Political Science and currently directs and has participated in research projects for leading private and international institutions, including the World Bank, UNDP, UNIDO, ILO, and the Ford Foundation. The author of several articles and books, she received in 2021 the Egyptian state's Women's Appreciation Award from the Academy for Scientific Research and Technology.