| Kaushik Basu
| Professor, Department of Economics, Cornell University, USA |
| William Darity
| Professor, Department of Economics, Duke University, USA |
| Nabanita Datta Gupta
| Professor, Department of Economics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark |
| Arjan de Haan
| Advisor, International Development Research Council, Ottawa, Canada |
| Ram D Deshpande
| Professor, Institute of Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, India |
| Shengen Fan
| Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, USA |
| Naila Kabeer
| Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK |
| S Mahendar Dev
| Professor, Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research, Mumbai, India |
| Sam Myers
| Professor, University of Minnesota, Humphrey Institute, Minnesota, USA |
| Wendy Olsen
| Professor, Manchester University, Manchester, UK |
| Thomas Piketty
| Professor, Paris School of Economics, Paris, France |
| R Radhakrishna
| Professor, Centre for Social and Economic Studies, Hyderabad, India |
| C Rammanohar Reddy
| Professor, Former Editor, Economic and Political Weekly, Hyderabad, India |
| Atul Sarma
| Professor, Indian Statistical Institute Delhi, Centre New Delhi, India |
| Kunal Sen
| UNU-WIDER, Finland |
| Tapan Kumar Shandilya
| Professor, Magadh University, Bodhgaya, India |
| Andrew Shepard
| Professor, Overseas Development Institute, London, UK |
| Jeemol Unni
| Professor, Institute of Rural Development, Anand, India |
| Arjan Verschoor
| Professor, School of International Development, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK |