Dr. Banerjee holds a PhD in Environmental and Energy Policy from the University of Delaware, and a Masters in Environmental Studies from Ohio University.

Over the past 12 years, she has worked with India and US-based environment and public policy think tanks. She has authored/co-authored several scholarly publications in her areas of work, and also engages in public outreach through her writings. The book, Just Transition in India: An inquiry into the challenges and opportunities for a post coal future, which she co-authored with her peer researchers, is the first on-ground study on just transition in context of India’s coal economy.

He worked for the Korea Labor & Society Institute, Democratic Labor Party and New Progressive Party. For the last 10 years, he worked at the Energy & Climate Policy Institute, researching Just Transition and energy democracy. Currently, he contributes to publish ‘NonukeNews’ as the director while focusing on the climate change education and research on degrowth.​​​
 

Dr. Sophia Seung-yoon Lee obtained her Ph.D. in Social Policy from Oxford University in the UK with her thesis on a comparative study between East Asian welfare states and non-regular workers. She is an associate professor of social policy at Chung-Ang university, Seoul, South Korea. Her major research fields are East Asian welfare states and labor markets, unstable labor, institutionalism and comparative research methodology. He published more than peer-reviewed articles and books(co-authored) including [Female outsiders in South Korea’s dual labour market: Challenges of equal pay for work of equal value (2020)], [Korea Unstable Youth Labor Market and Youth Basic Income Policy Proposal (2016)], [Institutional Legacy of State Corporatism in De-industrial Labor Markets (2016)], [Korean Precarious workers Workers (Co-authored Book, 2017)] etc. Currently, she is the Vice Chairperson of the Youth Policy Coordination Committee in the Prime Minister Office.

Minority Policy Researcher

Author / Founder, Heyuhm publisher 

Founder, Dotface

Juhee Cheon is a cultural researcher and writer. Cheon is currently serving as a researcher for the Center for Cultural Society and an editorial member for Culture/Science. She has been writing scholarly articles and books focusing on youth debt, discourse, labor, and poverty and won Korean Publishing Culture Awards in 2017. Her main books are Entrapped in Ivory Tower: Why does Studying More Make Us Poorer? (2016) and Who Quits If The Company Is Fine? (2019). Cheon’s recent interests are millennial discourse, artist sustainability, and cultural politics of gender and minorities. 
 

Mayor, Seoul Seodaemun-Gu / President, The Association of Korean Local Governments for Social Economy and Solidarity​

President, Hankyoreh Economy & Society Research Institute 

Member, The National Assembly of Republic of Korea 

Professor, Concordia University / Director, Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy

Member, The National Assembly of Republic of Korea 

Mayor, Seoul Dobong-gu

Professor, Korea National University of Education

President, Korea Social Value and Solidarity Foundation