- Michael Best – Georgia Tech
- Ashok V. Desai – Consulting Editor, Businessworld; Formerly Chief Consultant, Ministry of Finance, Government of India
- Joyojeet Pal – Polytechnic Institute of New York University and ATLAS Institute, CU Boulder
- Tapan Parikh – University of California, Berkeley
- Isha Ray – University of California, Berkeley
- Revi Sterling – University of Colorado at Boulder
- Kentaro Toyama – University of California, Berkeley
- Researchers from Technology for Emerging Markets research group, Microsoft Research India