Vivek Wadhwa is a US-based entrepreneur of Indian origin and an academic; Shwanika Narayan is a San Francisco-based journalist

Mitu Samar is a first-generation entrepreneur and member of CII Indian Women Network’s steering council

David Gilmour is a British historian and a Fellow of the Royal Society for Literature

Shiraz Maher is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King's College, University of London, and teaches at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

Aekta Kapoor is a writer and editor based in New Delhi

Leo Saldanha works with Environment Support Group in Bangalore

Sumita Dawra is an IAS officer who was posted as Head of the Economic Wing in the Indian Mission in Beijing for over three years till July 2014