Ádám Banai, PhD
Executive Director for Monetary Policy Instruments and Foreign Reserve Management, Magyar Nemzeti Bank (MNB, the Central Bank of Hungary); Associate Professor, Department of the Magyar Nemzeti Bank, John von Neumann University

Ádám Banai holds a PhD in Finance from Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary. He joined the Financial Stability Department of the Magyar Nemzeti Bank (Central Bank of Hungary) in 2008. From 2013 to 2017 he was the head of the Applied Research and Stress-testing Department. From mid-2017 he was the director of Financial System Analysis Directorate. He holds his current position from 2020. He is a member of the Financial Stability Board in Hungary and the supervisory board at KELER CCP. He is a guest lecturer and a member of the advisory board at ESCP Europe Institute of Real Estate Finance and Management. His main research fields are stress testing, systemic risk, macroprudential policy, real estate market. He has several papers, articles published in high level journals.

Dr. David Camroux is Honorary Senior Research Fellow within the Centre de Recherches Internationales (CERI). At Sciences Po he is also an Adjunct Professor at the Institut d'Études Politiques (IEP) in Paris, where he teaches on contemporary Southeast Asian politics and society, EU-Asian relations, and Asian regional integration. In September 2016, he was appointed as Professorial Fellow at the Vietnam National University (USSH), Hanoi. He has been a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, the Central European University, Chulalongkorn University, Gadjah Mada University, Waseda University, the University of Yangon, and Korea University. Working in an interdisciplinary way at the interface between Comparative Politics and International Relations, he is the author of numerous articles on Southeast Asian politics and history, the international relations of the Asia-Pacific and EU-Asia relations. David Camroux graduated from the University of Sydney (BA Hons) and read for his doctorate at the Sorbonne nouvelle (Paris III). He is the co-editor of The Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs. He is a regular commentator on Southeast Asian and Pacific affairs for French media.

Doobo Shim, PhD
Dean, College of Social Sciences, Professor of Media Communication, Sungshin Women's University

Doobo Shim is currently Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Professor of Media and Communication at Sungshin Women's University, Seoul, South Korea. He previously served as assistant professor at the National University of Singapore and visiting scholar at Duke University, USA. He does research on media and communication within critical, cultural, and historical perspectives, while his recent research has focused on Korean popular culture and its fandom overseas. His research has been honored by several academic societies including the National Communication Association (USA), and at the Global Fusion Conference. He authored and co-authored several books in Korean and English, and has published essays in Media, Culture & Society, Asian Journal of Women's Studies, Korea Journal, and other journals. He has been an editorial board member of many academic journals including International Journal of Cultural Studies and Asian Communication Research.