Prof. Rajeeva Laxman Karandikar is an Indian mathematician, statistician and psephologist.[1] He served as the director of Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI) from 2010 until 2021 and now he is Professor Emeritus at CMI. He is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and Indian National Science Academy. He is also the Chairman of the National Statistical Commission, Government of India.

Dr. Basu is a tenured faculty (ISFP) at the Scool team (previously called SequeL) of Inria Lille Nord Europe in France. His research aims to construct algorithms and systems for developing efficient, robust, private, and ethical learning machines that solve real-life problems.

Prof. Sourav Chakraborty is currently a Professor at Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, India. Before joining ISI, he was a faculty member at Chennai Mathematical Institute, India. He finished his Phd in Computer Science from University of Chicago under the supervision of Prof. László Babai. His field of research is Theoretical Computer Science. Prof Chakraborty’s focus has been in the classical and quantum complexity of Boolean functions (including property testing, sensitivity and block sensitivity of Boolean functions and quantum database search), in electronic commerce, in graph algorithms and in coding theory.

Dr. Sharan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research centres around questions in development economics and political economy. He has worked as a researcher and policy economist, with research organizations, state governments and the central government in India.

Dr. Ritwik Banerjee is an Associate Professor of the Economics area at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. His primary research area is at the intersection between Behavioural and Development Economics and he extensively uses Experimental Methods for his research.

Martin Haus is a PhD Scholar at Department of Government, London School of Economics. His primary research interests concern bureaucracies, service delivery, and the political economy in low- and middle-income countries with a particular focus on state capabilities and management practices within the public sector.

Dr. Ashmita Gupta is Member-Secretary, Asian Development Research Institute. Her primary areas of interest are empirical microeconomics, labor, development, gender, public finance and international trade. She has been a postdoctoral researcher in Wageningen University, Netherlands and Indian Statistical Institute, Chennai. Before that she completed her PhD from University of Houston. She has done masters from Jawaharlal Nehru University and Bachelors from Delhi University.

Dr. Deepak Kumar is a Research Associate in ADRI. He works on different projects under the supervision of the Member Secretary. He has an MPhil and PhD in Law and Governance from the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance at Jawaharlal Nehru University. His areas of interest include urban governance, human rights, and exploring the state-citizen relationship.