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Eswar Prasad is the Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy at Cornell University. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he holds the New Century Chair in International Economics, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He was previously head of the China Division at the International Monetary Fund. He has co-authored and edited numerous books and monographs, including on financial regulation and on China and India. He serves on an advisory committee to India’s finance minister.

Sunil Mithas is a professor at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland and the author of Making the Elephant Dance: The Tata Way to Innovate, Transform and Globalize. He earned his PhD from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and an engineering degree from IIT, Roorkee. Before pursuing his PhD, he worked for nearly ten years in engineering, marketing and general management positions with the Tata Group.
Identified as an MSI Young Scholar by the Marketing Science Institute, Mithas is a frequent speaker at industry events for senior leaders. His research focuses on strategies for managing innovation and excellence for corporate transformation. He has worked on consulting assignments with organizations such as Johnson & Johnson, Lear, A.T. Kearney, the Tata Group, the Social Security Administration and the US Census Bureau.
He can be reached at sunil.mithas@gmail.com or http://www.sunilmithas.com.

Sanjay Kulkarni is the former MD and country head of Stern Stewart and Co. in India-a boutique global consulting firm focused on value management. Subsequently, he mentored group businesses and investments at the chairman’s office, Reliance Industries Ltd. He is currently a partner at 7 Capital Ventures and director at Tranzmute Capital and Management.
His proprietary value-creation approach delivers about four to five times of the Sensex over a five-year period. He is a trained rock climber and enjoys writing poetry.

Shweta Punj is an award-winning journalist and was chosen as a young global leader by the World Economic Forum. She is a deputy editor with India Today, where she writes about economy, political economy, start-ups and development. She was awarded the Laadli Media and Advertising Award for Gender Sensitivity (national and South Asia) for her investigative series on child sex slaves. With over two decades of journalistic experience across the US and in India, Punj has worked with CNBCTV18, Inside Washington Publishers, Bloomberg UTV, NewsX and Business Today. She co-founded a digital governance platform, Whypoll, which introduced India’s first mobile application for women’s safety. Punj is also the founder of Original Women Network, a community for women to empower and inspire all.

Nanda Menon is a managing director in the investment banking division at a leading international bank in London. He studied mechanical engineering at King’s College London in 1990 before joining Arthur Andersen in London, on the oil and gas team, where he qualified as a chartered accountant (England and Wales). He has been working in the global natural resources sector (gold, diamonds, iron ore, coal, oil and gas) for over twenty
years. He is one of the oldest and most experienced international investment bankers covering India since 1994. In 2000, Businessworld ranked him as the No. 2 dealmaker in India. Menon is a regular speaker at investment conferences internationally and his letters on global macroeconomic issues have been published in the Financial Times.

Professor S. Manikutty has specialized in Business Policy and Strategy and his areas of interest include strategic management and competitive strategy, leadership, global competitiveness of industries, corporate governance and strategies for family businesses. He is the Regional Editor (Asia and the Pacific) of European Journal of International Mangement (EJIM), a member of the Editorial Board of Vikalpa, the journal of IIM Ahmedabad, Journal of Human Values published by the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta and of International Journal of Innovation and Incubation published by Chinese Business Incubation Association (Taiwan) as well as associate editor of Journal of Asia Entrepreneurship and Sustainability published by St. Paul University (Quezon City, Philippines).

Anurag K. Agarwal is a mechanical Engineer from MNREC, Allahabad (now known as MNNIT). After working for less than a year with Bharat Petroleum, he decided to study law. He completed his LL.B., LL.M., and LL.D. from Lucknow University and a second LL.M. from Harvard Law School. He practised as an Advocate at Lucknow for about seven years and for about a year and a half at Delhi. He switched over to full-time teaching in 2004, with a brief stint at MDI Gurgaon. He has been with IIMA since then in the Business Policy Area and has been the Chairperson of the Post Graduate Programme in Public Management and Policy (PGP-PMP) at IIMA. He is a visiting faculty at ESSEC, Paris. His teaching and research interests include intellectual property, dispute resolution, and relationship between business, government, and law.

Sanjeev Sanyal is a prolific writer who writes for adults and children. He has also authored The Incredible History of India’s Geography for a younger audience. Sanjeev Sanyal is the principal economic advisor to the Government of India and an internationally acclaimed economist and urban theorist. He writes on topics ranging from economics to history and is the author of the bestselling books Land of the Seven Rivers and The Indian Renaissance. In 2014, he was given the inaugural International Indian Achievers Award for contributions to literature. He has been a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, London, visiting scholar at Oxford University, adjunct fellow at Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore and a senior fellow of the World Wide Fund for Nature. Sanjeev attended Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi and St. John’s College, Oxford, where he was Rhodes Scholar. He lives in Delhi.

Novy Kapadia is a renowned sports journalist and columnist, and teaches English literature at Delhi University. Recognized as India’s foremost football expert and commentator on leading television channels, he is the author of The Football Fanatic’s Essential Guide Book, and has contributed to Soccer in South Asia and Fields of Play. Novy has been consultant to the Limca Book of Records from 1990 onwards, and has edited the Durand Journal-India’s most comprehensive football journal-since 1983. Since 1980, he has covered several international championships, including the World Cup and the Olympics, and all major domestic tournaments.
Novy won the Wills Award for Excellence in Sports Journalism in 1986. He lives in Delhi.

Madhu Jain was educated at Connecticut College in the United States, following which she did her master’s in literature from Delhi University and studied French literature at the Sorbonne in Paris. In the Seventies she worked as a reporter for the Statesman, moving towards the end of the decade to the Sunday magazine to write on politics, foreign affairs and culture. She was also the New Delhi correspondent with the French national daily, La Croix, for a decade before she joined India Today in 1986, where she remained until 2000. Since then she has written for several publications, including Outlook and the Hindu, on contemporary life, art and cinema. She has curated two art exhibitions-Kitsch Kitsch Hota Hai on kitsch and the contemporary imagination, and the other on the painter Viswanadhan.
Madhu Jain lives in Delhi with her physicist husband Krishna Jain. They have two children.