Ashoke Chatterjee has a vast experience of over 54 years in the field of Communication in Industry, International Civil Service, Public Sector, Education and Development. He was Executive Director of the National Institute of Design (NID) from 1975-85. He has served for many years as honorary president of the Crafts Council of India and continues to work as a consultant in India and internationally, especially on projects concerned with water management and environmental issues.

Gagan Sethi has an experience of working in the development sector especially in the field of social justice and legal education spanning more than 40 years. He serves as a trustee on the boards of various organizations like Janvikas, Yuva, Sahjeevan, KMVS, Navsarjan Trust, ECONET, etc., and is also the Chairperson of Dalit Foundation. Mr. Sethi was appointed as member of the Special Monitoring Group appointed by the NHRC for the 2001 earthquake and the 2002 communal violence in Gujarat. He was also on the Consultative Committee appointed by the Planning Commission to draft the Voluntary Agency Policy. His professional core areas are organizational development, human rights and capacity building of NGOs.

Arvind Lodaya trained in Industrial Design, but his work spans virtually every design discipline. He consults with industry, NGOs and research groups, and has taught at various institutes of design in India. He was Creative Director of a strategic brand consultancy under Ogilvy that -amongst other things- undertook the comprehensive corporate rebranding of ICICI..He was the first HP Labs-Srishti Research Chair and was on the steering group of the Nokia-Srishti Design Research Studio. He was invited on the review panel of the UNDP- Government of India's "Endogenous Tourism" pilot initiative, and as Visiting Scholar at the University of Guthenburg in 2010. As Senior Faculty and later Dean of Research at Srishti, he helped set up its undergrad program in Product & Interface Design and postgrad program in Transcultural Design