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Professor Anupam Sibal (MD, FIMSA, FIAP, FRCP {Glasg}, FRCP {Lon}, FRCPCH, FAAP) has been a paediatrician for twenty years, trained in India and the UK. In 1998, he helped set up the first successful paediatric liver transplant programme, the Apollo Solid Organ Transplant Program, in India at Apollo Hospitals, Delhi. Prof. Sibal has been the Group Medical Director of the Apollo Hospitals Group since 2005.
Prof. Sibal is an Honorary Clinical Professor at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He has more than ninety-five publications in medical literature, serves on the editorial board of three journals and has edited a text book of paediatric gastroenterology and hepatology.
Prof. Sibal lives in Delhi with his wife, Nandini, and son, Devaang. This is his first non-medical book.

Shiv Aroor is an editor and anchor with India Today television, with experience of over a decade covering the Indian military. He has reported from conflict zones that include Kashmir, India’s Northeast, Sri Lanka and Libya. For the latter, he won two awards for war reporting. As a political reporter on TV, he was also recently awarded for his coverage of the 2018 state elections in his home state, Karnataka. Aroor also runs the popular award-winning military news and analysis site, Livefist, on which he frequently tells the stories of India’s military heroes.

Rahul Singh has covered defence and military affairs at the Hindustan Times for over a decade, in a career spanning twenty years. Apart from extensive and deep reporting from the world of the Indian military, including several newsbreaks that have set the national news agenda over the years, Singh has reported from conflict zones including Kashmir, the North-east and war-torn Congo.

Since 1980, Prannoy Roy has been synonymous with elections in India. He is renowned for pioneering opinion polls in their present form, which forecast results and analyse the Indian voter-politician love-hate connection. He introduced the country to psephology by explaining on television how numbers blend with politics to predict the winner. Roy is the default setting for decoding who a state, or the country, is voting for.
Roy and his wife and journalist, Radhika Roy, are founders of NDTV, awarded for several years as India’s most trusted media brand. He has a PhD in economics from the Delhi School of Economics, is a qualified chartered accountant (England and Wales) and has been economic advisor with the Ministry of Finance.

Dorab R. Sopariwala has been editorial adviser with NDTV and senior consultant with Edelman India for around two decades. Earlier, he worked with market research companies in England (Metra Consulting Group) and India (first with IMRB and then with MARG, where he was the Founder-Managing Director). He has a deep and abiding interest in opinion polling, which spans four decades. He was educated at the London School of Economics and the Imperial College of Science and Technology and is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.

Dorab R. Sopariwala has been editorial adviser with NDTV and senior consultant with Edelman India for around two decades. Earlier, he worked with market research companies in England (Metra Consulting Group) and India (first with IMRB and then with MARG, where he was the Founder-Managing Director). He has a deep and abiding interest in opinion polling, which spans four decades. He was educated at the London School of Economics and the Imperial College of Science and Technology and is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.

“Twinkle Khanna, aka Mrs Funnybones, crafts satirical stories and funny fables when she is not running a design business, selling candles or running in circles around her small but rather odd family. She narrowly escaped a gruesome tragedy when Bollywood tried to bludgeon her brain to the size of a pea, but she ducked at the right moment and escaped miraculously unharmed. She is a popular columnist and is a regular contributor to The Times of India and DNA After Hrs. Currently, she is in the process of creating lame jokes like, ‘Why do all Hindu boys worship their mother? Because their religion tells them to worship the cow.’ She firmly believes that nothing in life is sacred except laughter.”

Rakshit Ranjan manages Marcellus’s flagship Consistent Compounders fund. A B.Tech from IIT (Delhi) and a CFA charter holder, he has a total experience of over sixteen years in equity investing in UK and India. He is also one of the co-authors with Saurabh Mukherjea, of Coffee Can Investing.

Pranab Uniyal is the head (products and advisory) at Ambit Capital. He has a BTech degree in chemical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and a postgraduate diploma in management from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.

Saurabh Mukherjea, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an alumnus of the London School of Economics, is the author of four best-selling books on subjects including investing, business strategy and self-improvement. Prior to Marcellus, he was the CEO of Ambit Capital and before that, the co-founder of Clear Capital (UK). Saurabh manages Marcellus Investment Managers.

R. M. Lala was an author, editor and publisher known for his chronicles of the Tatas.

S. Ramadorai retired as CEO and MD of Tata Consultancy Services in 2009, after serving the company for thirty-nine years.

Harish Bhat is brand custodian at Tata Sons, and was recently featured in Forbes Top 10 CMOs in the world.

Derek O’Brien was born in Kolkata. He began his professional career as a journalist for Sportsworld magazine but soon shifted to advertising. After working for a number of very successful years as Creative Head of Ogilvy, Derek decided to focus all his energy and talent in his passion—quizzing.
Today, Derek O’Brien is Asia’s best-known quizmaster and the CEO of Derek O’Brien & Associates Pvt. Ltd. He is the host of the longest-running game show on Indian television, The Cadbury Bournvita Quiz Contest, for which he was voted the Best Anchor of a Game Show at the Indian Television Academy Awards three years in a row. He also hosts the longest-running corporate quiz show, The Economic Times Brand Equity Quiz. Derek conducts quizzes across India, in the Gulf, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Singapore and the US. He is also credited with having conducted the first quiz on Twitter.
Derek O’Brien has also authored more than thirty reference and quiz books for Penguin, making him Penguin India’s highest-selling reference author. He is also the author of two extremely successful school textbook series with Pearson Education: Know and Grow with Derek and Be a GK Champ.
In 2011, Derek O’Brien was voted to the Rajya Sabha as a Member of Parliament (MP). He is the Chief Whip of the Trinamool Congress in the Rajya Sabha, and had the honour of addressing the UN General Assembly in 2012.
To know about Derek and his company, visit the website www.derek.in. You can also follow Derek on Twitter (@quizderek).