Helene Fleury is a PhD candidate at the University of Paris-Saclay, associated with the Center for South Asian Studies (CEIAS, EHESS / CNRS, Paris), the greatest French Centre for South Asia. She is an elected member of the Council of the SLAM laboratory (Synergy Language, Arts, Music, the University of Paris-Saclay). In the academic year 2015-16, she was also the PhD representative of the CEIAS and co-organiser of the Doctoral Conference "South Asian Studies; Practice, Methodology, Interpretation: Empirical and Theoretical Knowledge" (EHESS, Paris, May 9, 2016). After being trained in "Hypokhâgne – Khâgne" in Paris in the Literary Section (Lycée Claude Monet), she went on to do History and Management of Cultural Heritage at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University and in Anthropology at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS, Paris). She succeeded in the examination in Government in 2006 and worked as the Project Leader in the fields of culture and youth politics. She is the author of four publications (three scientific articles and one book section) from which two have been edited and two are forthcoming. In 2007, she published an article pertaining the decorations of Indian restaurants in the district of Paris in a special issue of Hommes et Migrations entitled Diasporas indiennes dans la ville and edited by Vasoodeven Vuddamalay and Catherine Servan-Schreiber. In 2013, her book's chapter dealing with the evolution of Mithila painting's creative techniques and their adaptation to modern markets will soon be published by Arcadia in From made to designed in India, edited by Catherine Servan-Schreiber and Philippe Bouquillion (corrected proofs). In 2014, she published an article, by L'Entretemps, analyzing the links between William Archer and Rabindranath Tagore, underlining Archer's vision of Indian Arts through his writings and manuscripts (British Library, Archer Collection, Mss Eur F 236). Finally, her forthcoming publication in 2016 by Oxford University Press of an article entitled "Traces of the Hippie-dom in Yves Véquaud's Writings: a Neotantric Quest by the Mithila Art?" is an amended version of the paper read in the international colloquium Counter-culture in Indian Arts. Néo-Tantric painting: Literature, Music & Dance in the 1960s-80s (Paris, Musée du Quai Branly).

Ish Mishra is an Associate Professor at Hindu College, Delhi. His academic interests have been within the broad contour of political philosophy and political economy revolving around theory and practice of socialism and human rights. Mishra’s M.Phil dissertation was on the Politics of Congress Socialist Party (1934-42). In 1986-87 he wrote a paper, “Woman’s Question in Communal Ideologies: A study into the ideologies of RSS and Jamat-e-Islami”, as a research associate at Center for Women’s Development Studies (CWDS). Most probably this was the first work on women and communalism and was conceived as the prelude to a larger work on the subject. One of the future plans is to move beyond the prelude. Recently, Mishra completed a series of nine articles on history of socialism from 1789 to 1917, i.e. From Rousseau to Lenin for a Hindi-language monthly, Samyantar (March-November 2017) and another for a Hindi half-yearly Anahad on Russian Revolution. Another future plan is to edit, introduce and compile them.

Jan Toporowski is a Professor of Economics and Finance at SOAS and holds visiting positions at the University of Bergamo, Italy and the International University College, Turin, Italy. He studied Economics at Birkbeck College, London, and the University of Birmingham. Toporowski has worked in fund management, international banking, central banking and economic consultancy. He has published extensively in monetary and financial economics and the history of economic thought. He has recently completed a two-volume biography of Michal Kalecki, (Michał Kalecki An Intellectual Biography Volume 1 Rendezvous in Cambridge 1899-1939, Palgrave 2013; Michał Kalecki An Intellectual Biography Volume 2 By Intellect Alone 1939-1970, Palgrave 2018), as well as books and papers on financial macroeconomics and money (The End of Finance, Routledge 2000; Theories of Financial Disturbance, Edward Elgar 2005; and, Credit and Crisis from Marx to Minsky, published in Spanish, and forthcoming in Polish and English). A key feature of his monetary and financial research is the analysis of credit and financial cycles, and the role of corporate finance in such cycles, uncovering the central role of Hilferding's Finance Capital in the understanding of business and credit cycles. He is currently working on a study of the monetary theory of Kalecki.

Julio Boltvinik is a researcher and Professor at El Colegio de Mexico (Mexico City) since 1992. He is an Economist and Social Scientist. His research interests include poverty, social policy and human flourishing, adopting a trans-disciplinary approach. He has dedicated 40 years in studying and fighting against poverty, in the academic, public policy, political and journalistic fields. Poverty measurement is one of the topics in which he has done more work, developing a multidimensional method for this purpose. In the last 15 years, he ‘broadened his look’ moving from economic-poverty-well being to human-poverty-human flourishing. To do this, he went back to Marx, especially to the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts. In building a theory on peasant poverty and persistence, he went back to Marx’s Capital and found that his theory of value neglected discontinuous labour processes, e.g. agriculture. He developed a proposal to overcome this, but it is not yet satisfactory and he is trying to amend this neglect.

Kevin M. Sanders received his BS and MS in Journalism at the Ohio University. He was also a Floor Broker at Chicago Board Options Exchange at a particular point of time in his career. During 1989-1991, he served as the Magazine editor of a journal, Jam Sessions. From 1991 to 2008, he was an Assistant Director at the Institute for Applied and Professional Ethics, Ohio University and was also the Managing Editor with the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine. Since 2012, he has been Vice President at the People Programme International (a registered non-governmental organisation) and Vice President at the Palmer Institute. Sanders is particularly interested in media criticism as related to media performance. This entails what he considers media metaethics, that is understanding the why of journalism. What purpose, especially in relation to the societies in which it functions, is journalism supposed to serve and why it does or doesn't (criticism). If these societies are ostensibly democratic societies, journalism claims to have a very special and protected role as well. Does it fulfill it? Political Economy, as Sanders sees it is how “economic” forces shape the social and political realities of a society or civilization and their interactions. Marxism obviously has a lot to say about this particularly, but not exclusively, in relation to capitalism and the countries in which it has flourished and/or held captive, as they are. Understanding Geopolitics, as he sees it, the world of, essentially, big power relationships and how they dominate and shape the political and economic interactions of nations, ranging from peacetime trade to global conflagrations as war. Geopolitical phenomenon also includes ideological and political projects such as neoliberalism and globalization. Further, as technology has served to accelerate the development of capitalism, science has played a vital role in shaping the face of the modern world from the steam engine to nuclear weapons. Getting a grasp on its important, potentially future shaping theories and developments are one key to understanding why the world may go the way it might. Being a journalist Sanders has come to believe that journalism is really not a useful, insightful tool unless informed by political economy, geopolitics, and science.