Mirai Chatterjee is the director of SEWA's Social Security team and the chairperson of its Cooperative Federation of 110 informal women workers’ cooperatives; she has previously also served as the organisation’s general secretary. Chatterjee is the chairperson of the global informal workers and policymakers network, Women in Informal Employment Globalising and Organising, and is on the board of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. She was a commissioner in the World Health Organization’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health and a member of the High-Level Expert Group on Universal Health Coverage set up by the Planning Commission of India in 2010.

Dr. Bhavani Rao is the dean of the School of Social and Behavioural Sciences at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. She is also the director of AMMACHI Labs and the Center for Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality. She has held India’s UNESCO Chair in Gender Equality since 2016, and served as the coordinator of the Gender Equality & Women's Empowerment Working Group of Civil20, a G20 civil society Engagement Group. Her work is centered on empowering women in rural areas.

Sudha Srinivasan is the chief executive officer of Centre for Social Innovation, The/Nudge Institute, where she leads initiatives to create a thriving livelihood ecosystem. She currently serves on the Agri-Startup Advisory Group, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, Government of India. An engineer by training, she previously worked at Intel and completed her MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow. 

Deep Jyoti Sonu Brahma is the founder director of Farm2Food Foundation, which focuses on mainstreaming agriculture as an aspirational livelihood for vulnerable youth in Assam. He works in the areas of education, climate change, and coalition building. Brahma is on the advisory governance team at Vartaleap, Catalyst2030 NAISE and several other social enterprises. He has been actively engaging and mentoring women social entrepreneurs and women-led farmer producer companies in the Northeast region.

Feisal Alkazi is a renowned theatre director and documentary maker, having directed over 300 plays for adults and children and 30 documentaries, many of them on children with special needs. He has been a counsellor and trainer with Sanjivini for over 35 years. He was also a master trainer in HIV/AIDS prevention for the UN from 2002-07. After completing his MSW, Alkazi headed Ankur, Society for Alternatives in Education, for 10 years, where Martha was a prominent staff member. When he left to start Creative Learning for Change, Martha joined him as one of the founders. For several years they worked as colleagues in the arenas of gender sensitisation, environment education and alternative education. They co-authored several books including Gender on the Agenda, Chipko, Nainas Village, among others.

Dr Rajesh Tandonis the founder-president of Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA) and the chairperson of Martha Farrell Foundation. He is also the co-chair of UNESCO Chair on Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education since 2012.

A pioneer of participatory research, Tandon has given new meaning to academic research by redefining the relationship between the researcher and the researched. He has also served on numerous expert committees of the Government of India, University Grants Commission, United Nations, Commonwealth and World Bank. In 2015, the Indian Adult Education Association (IAEA) awarded Tandon the Nehru Literacy Award. For his distinguished work on gender issues, the Government of India honoured him with the prestigious Award in Social Justice in 2007.