Author: Haidong Xu

Pengfei Ni, director of the Center for Cities and Competitiveness of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and professor of the National Institute of Economic Strategy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, is mainly engaged in the research of urban development economics, real estate economics, competitiveness economics, and unified development economics. In 2005, he was awarded the highest award in Chinese economics – Sun Yefang Economic Works Award.Marco Kamiya, the director of the Division of Digital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence Strategy of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, once served as the director of the Bureau of Urban Economy and Finance of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme. At the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, he was mainly responsible for the global urban economy and financial business and carried out research on municipal finance, urban expansion economics and local infrastructure investment policies. He studied economics in Lima and Tokyo and international economic development at Harvard University. He has successively held senior positions in the CAF Development Bank in Caracas, the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington and PADECO Co., Ltd. in Tokyo.