Ashok H. Desai was the Attorney General for India between 1996 and 1998 and the Solicitor General of India between 1989 and 1990. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2001 and the Law Luminary Award for his remarkable contribution in the field of administrative Law. He has been Professor of Law in Law College, Bombay and the Legal Correspondent for the Times of India. He is Vice President of the Bar Association of India and the Chairman of the Committee on Administrative Law of the International Bar Association as well as the Union International Des Advocates. He has contributed to several magazines and books including ‘Constitutional Laws of India', ‘International Libel Handbook' and ‘India Fast Forward'.

Gowher Rizvi, Lecturer in Public Policy is Director of the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University. He was the Ford Foundation's Representative for South Asia and served as the Foundation's Deputy Director for Governance and Civil Society in the New York office. He was the Director of Contemporary Affairs at the Asia Society in New York. A Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford, Director of Queen Elizabeth, the Beit Lecturer for Commonwealth Studies, and Senior Lecturer at the University of Warwick, he was a Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, and the founder-editor of Contemporary South Asia , an academic and policy studies journal. He has authored and edited several books. He was also a Rhodes Scholar at Trinity College, Oxford, where he received his D Phil.

Pratap Bhanu Mehta is a prominent Indian political scientist, constitutional expert and commentator. He currently heads the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi. He has in the past been Professor of Government at Harvard and Professor of Philosophy and Law and Governance at the Jawaharlal Nehru University. He was till recently a member of the National Knowledge Commission. Following an undergraduate degree from the University of Delhi, He obtained a second B.A. from Oxford and a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University. He has been a columnist for The New Republic, Foreign Policy, The Hindu, and the Calcutta Telegraph and currently serves as an editorial consultant for the Indian Express.

Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School, where he has been a member of the Strategy Group since 1993. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree, Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University, and a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University. He heads the required Strategy course in the Harvard MBA program and the Strategy, Leadership & Governance Executive Education program, and lectures and consults to companies and governments worldwide. He has been a frequent commentator on South East Asia and his work has been profiled in news magazines around the world and numerous newspapers in China, India, and elsewhere in Asia and Latin America.