Devashish Mitra is Professor of Economics and Cramer Professor of Global Affairs at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, New York

Leena Manimekalai is an award winning filmmaker and a poet based in Chennai. She can be reached at leenamanimekalai @gmail.com

Sam Roggeveen is the editor of The Interpreter and a fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy, Sydney, Australia

Prajna Desai is an art historian, writer and curator based in Mumbai

Karan Lahiri is a litigator and Chaitanya Ramachandran a technology lawyer. Both are based in Delhi

Mukund Mohan is director at Microsoft Ventures. He is based in Seattle, US. He can be reached on Twitter @mukund and blogs at Bestengagingcommunities.com

Dr Roop Gursahani is a consultant neurologist at PD Hinduja National Hospital and a member of End of Life Care in India Task Force’s steering committee

Mary Longhurst is managing director and founder of Epoch Strategic Communications

Tara Sriram has designed aircraft interiors at Teague/Boeing and Textron Aviation

Jyotirmoy Saha is CEO of August Media Holdings, a Singapore-based entertainment content company, and founder of Tapow, a direct-to-mobile streaming startup

Dr RK Mani, chairman of End of Life Care in India Task Force’s steering committee, was an impleader in the Supreme Court case

Miniya Chatterji is the author of Indian Instincts: Essays on Freedom and Equality in India. She is CEO of Sustain Labs Paris