Bryan Cheang is the Assistant Director and Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Governance and Society (CSGS) at King's College London, where he obtained his PhD in Political Economy. His research interests include varieties of capitalism, the governance of East Asian societies, industrial policy, and the importance of value pluralism in the management of cultural particularism. He is also the author of Economic Liberalism and the Developmental State: Comparing Hong Kong and Singapore's Post-War Development, recently published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Tom G. Palmer is executive vice president for international programs at Atlas Network where he holds the George M. Yeager Chair for Advancing Liberty. He is also a senior fellow at Cato Institute. He has travelled extensively to work with NGOs promoting liberal democracy and locally-led economic development. He has also published in journals such as the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Foreign Policy, Ethics, Critical Review, Global Policy, Eurasia Review, and Constitutional Political Economy. He is the author of numerous books, including (with Matt Warner) Development with Dignity (2022), and (with William A. Galston) Truth and Governance: Religious and Secular Views (2021).

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