Deepak Lal

James S. Coleman Professor of International Development Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Research fellow at the Independent Institute and was formerly president of the Mont Pelerin Society. Held academic positions at Oxford and later University College London.

Isher Judge Ahluwalia

Currently Vice Chairperson, Planning Board, Punjab, and Member, National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council, Government of India. Served as Director and Chief Executive of the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) in New Delhi is now Chairperson, Board of Governors of ICRIER.

Jagdish Bhagwati

Renowned professor of economics, regarded as one of the foremost international trade economist of modern times. Presently University Professor at the Columbia University and Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Kirit Parikh

Emeritus Professor (on retirement as Director) and Founder Director of Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai, India. Also served as Senior Economic Advisor to United Nations Development and has been a member of the Economic Advisory Council (EAC) to seven Prime Ministers in India.

Lord Meghnad Desai

Taught at the London School of Economics since 1965. Was made a Professor of Economics in 1983 and he established the Centre for the study of Global Governance in 1992.

Nirvikar Singh

Directs the Business Management Economics program and is codirector of the Santa Cruz Institute of International Economics. member of the Advisory Group to the Finance Minister of India on G-20 matters. Taught at the Delhi School of Economics.

Shreekant Gupta

Professor at Delhi School of Economics. Also a researcher, policymaker and consultant on environment, natural resources, energy and urban issues. Taught at the universities of Delhi, Maryland and at Jawaharlal Nehru University and NUS. In addition, was Fulbright Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Shastri Fellow at Queens University, Canada.

Surjit Bhalla

Managing Director of Oxus Research and Investments, a New Delhi-based economic research, asset management, and emerging-markets advisory firm. Taught at the Delhi School of Economics and worked at the Rand Corporation, the Brookings Institution, and at both the research and treasury departments of the World Bank.

Swaminathan Aiyar

Consulting Editor of The Economics Times and a research scholar at The Cato Institute. Formerly editor of two of India’s biggest economic dailies, Financial Express in 1988-90 and The Economic Times in 1992-94.

Urjit Patel

Expert on economics and public finance in India, international trade, financial intermediation and regulation of infrastructure utilities. Also Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. Worked at the International Monetary Fund and as an adviser to both the Reserve Bank of India and the Ministry of Finance in New Delhi.