Kaushik Basu is a Professor of Economics and the C. Marks Professor of International Studies at Cornell University. He served as the Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India (2009-2012) and Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank (2012-2016). He began a three-year term as President of the International Economic Association in June 2017. Kaushik Basu is a laureate of the Humboldt Research Award 2021. Prof. Basu is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and received the title Padma Bhushan, one of the highest civilian awards given by the President of India. In addition to Cornell, he has taught at the Delhi School of Economics, Harvard, Princeton and MIT. Prof. Basu’s contributions span development economics, welfare economics, industrial organization and game theory. 

Stefan Dercon is a Professor of Economic Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government and the Economics Department and a Fellow of Jesus College. He is also the Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies. Since Sep-2020, he has been Policy Advisor to Foreign Secretary at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. During 2011–17, Prof. Dercon was the Chief Economist of the UK Department for International Development (DfID). Before DfID, Dercon was a Professor of Development Economics at Oxford University and the lead academic for the Ethiopia country programme at the International Growth Centre, a research centre based jointly at The London School of Economics and Political Science and the University of Oxford. He has authored ‘Gambling on Development: Why some countries win, and others lose’. 

Pramila Krishnan is a Professor of Development Economics at the University of Oxford. Her research has concentrated on applied microeconomics, and she has worked on topics ranging from household portfolios of poor households to risk-sharing, intra-household allocation and informal insurance, social networks, non-cognitive skills and whether migrants might be both: rich and happy. She is a co-lead academic for Ethiopia at the International Growth Centre and a fellow of Pembroke College.

Ajit Mishra is the former Director of the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. He is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Bath. His research expertise includes Development economics, Economics of corruption, Contracts and enforcement, Inequality and conflict. Before joining the University of Bath in 2006, Dr Mishra held teaching positions at the University of Dundee, the Delhi School of Economics and the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research. 

Alaka Basu is a sociologist and demographer, a Professor of Development Sociology at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. She was formerly a professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Harvard University, and was the Chairperson of the scientific committee on anthropological demography at the International Union for the scientific study of population (IUSSP). Between 2002 and 2008, she has been the Director of the South Asia Program at Cornell University.  Prof. Alaka Basu is a Senior Fellow for public health at the United Nations Foundation and a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Department of International Development, London School of Economics. She is a member of the editorial boards of the Population and Development Review and the Asian Population Studies. She has extensive publications concerning social demography, gender and development, and South Asian Studies.

Wilima Wadhwa is the Director of the Assessment Survey Evaluation Research (ASER) Centre. She has been associated with ASER since its inception in 2005. Dr Wadhwa has been published extensively and teaches statistics and econometrics at the University of California (Irvine) and the Indian Statistical Institute (New Delhi). She has also been a member of various government committees. Dr Wadhwa’s other research interests include the development and economics of education. 

Vidya Mahambare is a Professor of Economics at the Great Lakes Institute of Management (GLIM), Chennai. She is a 2020 joint winner of the Emergent Ventures Grant by The Mercatus Centre, George Mason University. Vidya’s research interests include but are not confined to monetary policy, household welfare and gender-related issues. Her work has been published in Economics Letters, Oxford Economic Papers, World Development, and Feminist Economics, among other journals. In August 2021, she was appointed as a member of the Expert Committee of the State Planning Commission of Tamil Nadu. Vidya worked with Cardiff Business School and was formerly the Director and Principal Economist at CRISIL. 

Arunava Sen is a Professor of Economics at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) Delhi. He works on Game Theory, Social Choice Theory, Mechanism Design, Voting and Auctions. He joined Princeton University for his PhD and worked on the theory of implementation under the supervision of Hugo Sonnenschein. He is well known for his contribution to the implementation theory and mechanism design. The 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin, and Roger Myerson for their contribution to the theory of mechanism design and implementation theory. The scientific background document of the Nobel Prize cites Arunava Sen's work with his coauthor Dilip Abreu. 

Saptarshi Mukherjee is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi and an Associate Professor at the Centre for Mathematical and Computational Economics, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jodhpur. He graduated from the Indian Statistical Institute (Delhi) in 2011. For post-doctoral research, he joined Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He works on mechanism design, social choice, game theory, and bounded rationality. He teaches microeconomics, game theory and mathematical economics at IIT Delhi. He is a recipient of the JSPS Long Term Invitational Fellowship (2020-21), MATRICS Grant (2020) and Teaching Excellence Award (2016). 

Souvik Roy is an Associate Professor at the Applied Statistics Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata. He graduated from the University of Maastricht, Netherlands. For post-doctoral research, he joined the University of Caen, France. His research interests include Game Theory, Mechanism Design, Algebraic Graph Theory, Social Choice Theory, Probability Theory (diffusion processes, percolation and random matrix), Number Theory and Epistemic Game Theory. He was awarded the Professor MJ Manohar Rao Award for Young Researchers in 2016 by the Indian Econometric Society. 

Sourav Bhattacharya is a Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta. He completed his PhD from Northwestern University in Managerial Economics and Strategy in 2007. He has wide-ranging interests spanning the economics of organisations, political economy, and development. Before joining IIM Calcutta, he worked at the University of Pittsburgh and Royal Holloway, University of London.  

Ram Singh is a Professor at the Delhi School of Economics (DSE), University of Delhi and the Adjunct Professor at the Department of Economic Science, IISER Bhopal. His areas of research interest are contract theory, public economics, public-private partnerships, and law and economics. Prof. Singh is a recipient of Fulbright, Commonwealth, and Erasmus Mundus Fellowships in economics and Ronald Coase Fellowships in economics.  He has taught at the DSE, Brown University, University of Hamburg, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and has been a Commonwealth Fellow at the London School of Economics.