Praveen Jha is Sukhamoy Chakravarty Chair Professor of Economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning and Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Informal Sector and Labour Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India. He has been a visiting fellow at a number of universities and institutions in Germany, China, Switzerland, South Africa and Zimbabwe, and has collaborated in research programmes with UN agencies including the ILO, the UNICEF, the UNDP and the FAO. He has published widely on labour and agrarian relations, the economics of education and public finance. He is one of the editors of Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy.

Sudhanshu Bhushan is former Professor and Head of the Department of Higher and Professional Education at the National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA), New Delhi, India. He specializes in internationalization, policy issues and planning in higher education. His notable works include The Future of Higher Education in India (2019), Governance of Higher Education in Bihar (2021) and The Evolving Landscape of Higher Education in India: Post-Pandemic Policies and Transformations (2024). He received the Amartya Sen Award in 2012 for distinguished social science research. He is the editor of the Indian Economic Journal.