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Dr Janmejaya Sinha is the Chairman of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) India, a Fellow of the BCG Henderson Institute (BHI), and was formerly Chairman of BCG’s Asia-Pacific region and a Global Executive Committee member. He works with many families and their businesses, and serves as chair of the Confederation of Indian Industry’s Committee on Financial Inclusion and Digitalization.

Carol Liao is the Chairman of BCG Greater China, a member of the firm’s Global Executive Committee, and leads BCG’s CEO advisory program in Asia, which includes numerous family business leaders. She won the “Excellence in Leadership” award by Consulting Magazine in 2016 and was named a “Champion of Women in Business” by Financial Times in 2018.

Ryoji Kimura is the global leader of BCG’s Corporate Finance and Strategy practice. He has over 20 years of consulting experience with Japanese and multinational manufacturing, telecommunications, and media industry clients in the areas of corporate and business strategy, transformation, turnaround, and innovation.

Dr Brittany Montgomery is a Project Leader at BCG and former Ambassador to the BCG Henderson Institute, where she concentrated on family-owned businesses. She is an AICP Certified City Planner and has 14 years of experience supporting governments in Latin America, China, and the US in strategic planning, governance, economic development, infrastructure, and transportation.

Lewis Carroll, born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-98), grew up in Cheshire in the village of Daresbury, the son of a parish priest. He was a brilliant mathematician, a skilled photographer and a meticulous letter and diary writer. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, inspired by Alice Liddell, the daughter of the Dean of Christ Church in Oxford, was published in 1865, followed by Through the Looking-Glass in 1871. He wrote numerous stories and poems for children including the nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark and fairy stories Sylvie and Bruno.

Hermann Hesse was born in Calw, Germany, in 1877. As a child, he lived for a time in Basle. He spent a short period studying at a seminary in Germany but soon left to work as a bookseller in Switzerland. After a first volume of verse (1899), Hesse established his reputation with
a series of lyrical romantic novels—Peter Camenzind (1904), Unterm Rad (The Prodigy, 1906), Gertrud (1910) and the short story, Knulp (1915). His humanity, his searching philosophy developed further in such novels as Siddhartha (1922), Der Steppenwolf (1927), Narziss and Goldmund (1930) and Das Glasperlenspiel (The Glass Bead Game, 1943), while his poems and critical writings won him a leading place among contemporary thinkers. Hesse won many literary awards, including the Nobel Prize in 1946.

KHWAJA AHMAD ABBAS (1914 -1987) was a film-maker, novelist, screenwriter, journalist,
short-story writer and playwright. He wrote more than seventy-four books. As a director and screenwriter, Abbas is considered one of the pioneers of Indian parallel or neo-realistic cinema. He penned a number of neo-realistic films, such as Dharti Ke Lal (which he directed), Naya Sansar, Jagte Raho and Saat Hindustani (which he also directed). As a screenwriter, he is known for having written Raj Kapoor’s best films, including Awara, Shree 420, Mera Naam Joker, Bobby and Henna.

Rahul Ramagundam is a Delhi-based academic. For this biography of George Fernandes, he received in 2018, a book-writing fellowship from the prestigious New India Foundation. The book has won the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Non-fiction for 2022.
Rahul’s many books include Gandhi’s Khadi (2008) and Including the Socially Excluded (2017).

Manjari Jaruhar is one of the first five women police officers in India and the first from the state of Bihar. She retired as Special Director General of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and is presently an Advisor to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) based out of New Delhi.

Yasmin Khan was born in London. She is a University Lecturer in British history at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Kellogg College. The Great Partition is her first book. It has won the Gladstone Prize from the Royal Historical Society and been translated into Hindi and Urdu.