Ashok Gulati is Infosys Chair Professor for Agriculture at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) since March 2014. He is currently also on the Central Board of Directors of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), and National Commodities and Derivates Exchange (NCDEX). He was Chairman of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), Government of India (2011-14); Director (Markets, Trade and Institutions, and later in Asia) at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) (2001-11).

Yuan Zhou is Head of Agricultural Policy and China Program at the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture, headquartered in Basel, Switzerland. She has been advising the Foundation and its partners on policy development since 2009, covering topics of agricultural and food policy, regional economic integration, seed policy, food safety and quality, agricultural extension, youth entrepreneurship, and climate-smart and resilient agriculture. Dr. Zhou served as the President of the Swiss Forum for International Agricultural Research (SFIAR) from 2017 to 2019.

Jikun Huang is Professor at the School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences and Director of China Center for Agricultural Policy (CCAP) in Peking University, Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences - for the advancement of science in developing countries (TWAS), Honorary Life Member of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE), and Fellow of Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA). He has been the president of Asian Society of Agricultural Economists (ASAE) since 2017 and vice-president of Chinese Association of Agricultural Economics since the early 2000s.

Alon Tal's career has been a balance between academia and public interest advocacy. He is presently chair of the Department of Public Policy at Tel Aviv University and was a visiting professor at the University of Otago in New Zealand Stanford University and Michigan State University. Between 2004 and 2016, Tal was a member of the international board of directors of the Jewish National Fund where he served as chairman of the committee for land development. From 1990 until 2000 Tal was a member of Kibbutz Ketura, a collective agricultural settlement in the south of Israel.

Ritika Juneja is a consultant at ICRIER since 2017. She specialises in various aspects of Indian agriculture, ranging from agri-innovations to revolutions, agri-credit, farm mechanization, structural transformation, etc. Before joining ICRIER, she worked with the Quality Council of India (Government of India) to assess and evaluate government initiatives such as Swachh Bharat (Clean India) Mission, Public Grievance Redressal, and Citizens' Charter. She was also deputed to the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances to provide analytical support for administrative reforms across central government ministries. She is a post graduate (Gold medallist) from Amity University in India.

Books by Ashok Gulati