Arvind Subramanian is Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington, DC, and former Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India. He has previously worked at the International Monetary Fund, and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and taught at Ashoka, Brown, Harvard and Johns Hopkins Universities. In 2011, Foreign Policy magazine named him one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers. His previous books include Eclipse: Living in the Shadow of China's Economic Dominance, and Of Counsel: The Challenges of the Modi-Jaitley Economy.
Devesh Kapur is the Starr Foundation Professor of South Asia Studies at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. Earlier he was the Frederick Danziger Associate Professor of Government, Harvard University and Madan Lal Sobti Professor for the Study of Contemporary India at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the political economy of development. His recent books include The Other One Percent: Indians in America, Internal Security in India: Violence, Order and the State, and The Oxford Handbook of Higher Education in Asia and the Pacific.