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Medha Kudaisya did her PhD in South Asian history at the University of Cambridge. She is a professor in Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, at National University of Singapore. She has previously published The Life and Times of G.D. Birla.

Owen Bennett-Jones has reported for the BBC from over sixty countries. He is the author of Pakistan: Eye of the Storm. Bennett-Jones has won journalism prizes and written for the Financial Times, the Guardian and the London Review of Books. He lives in Anglesey, Wales.

TGC Prasad is the bestselling author of several management and fiction books. Besides writing, he consults and advises CEOs, HR heads and senior leaders of various companies on people strategy. He also manages TGC Consulting (www.tgc-consulting.com), a human resources consulting firm that offers three core services, viz. executive search, senior management coaching, and strategic people advisory to global MNCs, Indian conglomerates, and PE/VC funded entrepreneurial ventures across various domains such as information technology, e-commerce, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, retail, manufacturing, BFSI, media and entertainment.
He is an avid blogger and you can read his blogs on http://tgcblogs.wordpress.com
You can connect with him on his Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/TGCPrasadOfficialFanpage

ASHVIN B. CHHABRA is the chief investment officer of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, Bank of America. Prior to his current position, Ashvin was chief investment officer at the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton, where he managed its endowment. He is widely recognized for being one of the founders of Goals-Based Wealth Management and for his seminal work ‘Beyond Markowitz’, which integrates modern portfolio theory with behavioural finance.
Ashvin grew up in New Delhi and was trained as a theoretical physicist. He received his PhD in applied physics in the field of chaos theory from Yale University, where he also met his Italian-born wife, Daniela Bonafede-Chhabra. They currently live in Princeton with their two children, daughter Maya and son Sasha.

SK Sayal holds over 30 years of experience in real estate industry across various companies like Alpha G Corp, Mahindra/GESCO Corp, DLF and Ansals. He was the founding director of Alpha G Corp and its CEO till 2014 and served as the Head of Operations at Mahindra/GESCO between 1993 and 2004. He has been widely acclaimed to be a key driver for establishing Real Estate Asset Management (REAM) model in India. Sayal was awarded ‘Most Enterprising CEO of the Year’ at the Real Estate Awards, and ‘CEO of the Year’ at the World Brand Congress Global Awards for Brand Excellence.