Soumitra Dutta is currently a Professor of Management at and the former founding dean of the SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University, New York. He is the founder of the Global Innovation Index, published by the World Intellectual Property Organisation and was the co-editor of the Global Information Technology Report, published by the World Economic Forum – two influential reports in technology and innovation policy. He is also the founder and President of Portulans Institute, a non-partisan nonprofit research and education institution based in Washington DC.

Dutta is on the global boards of Sodexo and Dassault Systemes. He is also a member of the Shareholder Council of Chicago-based healthcare consulting company ZS Associates. In addition, he is a member of the advisory boards of several schools.

Mark Finn is a Clinical Professor of Accounting and International Business at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. From 2001 to 2008 he also served as director of Kellogg's Global Initiatives in Management programme. Prior to coming to Kellogg, Prof. Finn was on the faculty of the University of Chicago. He teaches core financial accounting and advanced classes in financial reporting, taxation, international accounting, and sustainability reporting. Prof. Finn has been affiliated with the Sasin Graduate Institute of Management, Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok, Thailand) since 2003. He has also been a visiting professor at the Indian School of Business (Hyderabad and Mohali) and Keio University (Hiyoshi, Japan).

Dan Gode is a professor at the NYU Stern School of Business. He teaches a wide range of courses on financial modeling, business strategy, tech strategy accounting, finance, and data analytics. He has received several teaching awards. He has consulted with and taught at numerous hedge funds, private equity groups, investment banks, corporations, and accounting and advisory firms. He holds an undergraduate in electronics engineering, an MBA, an MS in information systems, an MS in accounting, and a PhD in accounting. He has published papers in market design, accounting-based valuation, and incentive compensation.

Nirmalya Kumar is Lee Kong Chian Professor of Marketing at Singapore Management University and Distinguished Fellow at INSEAD Emerging Markets Institute. Prior to this, heading strategy as Member-Group Executive Council at Tata Sons, he reported to Cyrus Mistry, the Chairman for the $100 billion Tata group. Professor Kumar previously taught at Columbia University, Harvard Business School, IMD (Switzerland), London Business School, and Northwestern University (Kellogg School of Management).

Ziv Katalan is the Managing Director for Wharton Global Initiatives and an Adjunct Professor of OIDD. He received his BS in Mathematics from Tel-Aviv University (1987), and his PhD in Management Science/Operations Research from Columbia University (1995). Since 1994 Dr. Katalan has taught courses in decision models and uncertainty, business analytics, operations management, supply chain management, mathematical modeling and its applications in finance, and quantitative finance at Wharton and Penn’s MBA programs. Dr. Katalan has been a visiting faculty at Columbia Business School, the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, and Indian School of Business in India.

Cait Lamberton is an Alberto I. Duran President's Distinguished Professor of Marketing at Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania. An award winning educator and researcher, she has been rated among Forbes' Global Top 10 B-School Professors. Poets & Quants has also rated her among “Top 40 Business School Professors under 40.” She has also done consulting work for the Federal government and private industry, with a particular interest in the application of behavioral insights to real-world problems.

Luis Martins is a Professor of Management at the Red McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the Herb Kelleher Chair in Entrepreneurship and the James B. Goodson Professorship in Business. He earned his Ph.D. in Management and Organisational Behavior from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University. Prior to joining The University of Texas at Austin, he was on the faculty of the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the University of Connecticut.

Raj Raghunathan is Zale Centennial Professor of Business at the McCombs School of Business at UT Austin. He is interested in how people’s judgments and decisions impact their happiness and fulfilment. Raj’s work has appeared in top journals such as The Journal of Marketing, The Journal of Consumer Research, The Journal of Marketing Research, and The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. His work has also been cited in several mass media outlets, including The Atlantic, The New York Times, Fortune, Forbes, and Harvard Business Review.

Shamika Ravi is a Non resident Senior Fellow of the Governance Studies programme at the Brookings Institution Washington D.C. She was the former Director of Research at Brookings India and led the Development Economics vertical, where the focus is on financial inclusion, health, gender inequality and urbanisation. Ravi is a visiting professor of Economics at the Indian School of Business where she teaches courses in Game Theory and Microfinance. She was also a member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India. Her research work has been featured and cited by BBC, The Guardian, The Financial Times and most national and regional newspapers and magazines in India.

Prior to joining Georgia State University, Dr. Milind Shrikhande worked at Georgia Tech, Unilever, and the World Bank. He was nominated for excellence in teaching at the Institute level at Georgia Tech’s DuPree College of Business. He was awarded the First Harvey Brightman Award for teaching innovation at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business in 2006, and GSU’s Instructional Effectiveness Award in 2007. In 2010 and 2012 he received the Outstanding Professor Award from the Global Partners MBA Programme. In 2017, Dr. Shrikhande won the Robinson College Teaching Excellence Award. He has also taught at the Indian School of Business as a visiting professor, and more recently taught at Cairo University and Alexandria University

Vera Tilson is an Associate Professor of Operations at the Simon School, University of Rochester. At Simon, Professor Tilson taught core Operations Management courses in the MBA program, and Healthcare Operations Management in the Medical Management Programme. She also taught an elective Quantitative Business Models course in the MBA and MS Finance programmes, and was recognised for that teaching with UofR and Simon School awards. Professor Tilson’s current research interests are in hospital operations. Her work has been published in Management Science, MSOM, POMS, EJOR, DSS, Operations Research, INFORMS Transactions on Education and other journals. She serves as an associate editor for Health Care Management Science.

Dr Abhijeet K. Vadera is an Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University (SMU). He received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and was previously affiliated with the Indian School of Business for five years where he taught courses on Negotiation Analysis and Responsible Leadership as well as several executive education programmes.

Prof Vadera’s research focuses on constructive (creativity and innovation) and destructive (such as ethics, white-collar crime) deviance in the workplace.

Gerard George is Dean and Lee Kong Chian Chair Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Lee Kong Chian School of Business at Singapore Management University. Professor George joined SMU from Imperial College London, where he was Deputy Dean of the Business School, Director of the Gandhi Centre, and Academic Director of the London Stock Exchange’s Elite Programme. Before Imperial, he held tenured positions at London Business School and at University of Wisconsin- Madison. He is Visiting Professor at Imperial Business School and Senior Global Fellow at The Lauder Institute at University of Pennsylvania.

An award-winning researcher and teacher, Professor George has published over 100 articles with 35,000 citations. His areas of research are in innovation, entrepreneurship, sustainability and tackling grand challenges in society