Wei-Jun Jean Yeung is Director of Social Sciences at the Institute for Human Development and Potential (IHDP), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and a Professor in the Department of Paediatrics at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore. She was a Provost-Chair Professor in the NUS Department of Sociology from 2008-2023. Before NUS, she was affiliated with the University of Michigan and New York University. Professor Yeung is a leading expert in social demography, family studies, child development, and social stratification. She is the inaugural President of the Population Association of Singapore and the founding Director of the Center for Family and Population Research at NUS. She has received many prestigious awards and led national surveys on family and children’s well-being in countries including the USA, China, and Singapore. She has published extensively in leading journals and is cited widely in academic publications and high-impact global media, and served on the editorial boards of many leading international journals. She is the Principal Investigator of the Singapore Longitudinal Early Development Study (SG LEADS).

Haeny Yoon is an Associate Professor and Program Director of Early Childhood at Teachers College, Columbia University. Through an ethnographic approach, she explores children's literacy practices by examining creative and artistic expressions—including writing, drawing, talking, and movement—to understand the landscape of contemporary children's culture and play. Committed to teachers as public intellectuals, she works alongside teachers to design the activities and conditions that amplify children’s agency and voice. As the Director of Play Initiatives at the Digital Futures Institute, she continues to curate collaborative, multimodal work across disciplines, expertise, and professions. She is the co-host of Pop and Play, holding serious and playful conversations with researchers, educators, designers, children, and media-makers about the role of play and creativity in their personal and professional lives. Alongside creative projects that reach multiple audiences, she has published widely in academic journals (e.g. Harvard Ed. Review, TC Record, Journal of Literacy Research, Research in the Teaching of English, Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, Anthropology and Education Quarterly). Her most recent work is an edited collection, Reimagining Equity, Diversity, and Justice in Early Childhood, which features the work of scholars from across disciplines on play, identity, and the role of adults in children’s spaces.

Sue Grieshaber is Professor of Early Childhood Education in the School of Education at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Her research and teaching interests are informed by a range of critical theories that address social justice and equity, and include early childhood curriculum, policy, pedagogies, play, women in higher education, and critical approaches to qualitative research. Since 1999, Sue has been Foundation Co-editor with Nicola Yelland of the internationally known journal "Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood". She has published widely and worked in universities in Australia and Hong Kong, and taught a summer program at Teachers College, Columbia University in the USA. In 2023 Sue was awarded the Bloch Distinguished Career Award by the international Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education organisation. Sue was recognised in 2019 with a Distinguished Career Contribution Award by the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Critical Perspectives in Early Childhood Education Special Interest Group.