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