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Jyoti Malhotra is the Founder-Editor of @AwaazSouthAsia, and a senior journalist with nearly 40 years of experience in print, TV, radio and online media. She has worked with some of India¡¯s top newspapes like the Indian Express and Times of India, in Moscow, Russia, and in New Delhi. She is also a guest contributor to BBC Radio, ThePrint news website, and Business Standard online.

Naina?Lal?Kidwai is the Chairperson Rothschild & Co India and Founder of India Sanitation Coalition. Earlier, she served as the Chairperson of HSBC, India, and was the board director for HSBC, Asia Pacific.

She is the founder of the India Sanitation Coalition (ISC), a non profit established in 2015. The ISC focuses on water, sanitation, and hygiene with an emphasis on projects such as behavioral change to promote clean habits, starting with educating schoolchildren about safe sanitation and hygiene practices.? She was the first Indian woman to get an MBA from Harvard in 1982, the first woman president of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), and the first woman to head a foreign bank¡¯s operations in India.?

Dr Pema Gyamtsho is the Director General for the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), a regional knowledge-centre based in Kathmandu, Nepal. He is an agricultural scientist with experience in both the political arena and development sector. He was was Bhutan¡¯s first democratically elected Minister of Agriculture and Forest from 2013 to 2018, and worked with Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation and ICIMOD earlier.

Dr Swarnim Wagl¨¦ has worked as an international development professional for more than 20 years, including as the Senior Economist at the World Bank in Washington, DC and UNDP in New York, Hanoi and Colombo. He is a widely published author and has co-edited?The Great Upheaval?and co-authored the global Human Development Report titled?The Rise of the South. From 2002 to 2007. He also co-led the UNDP Asia Trade Initiative. Between 2014 and 2018, Dr. Wagl¨¦ served the National Planning Commission (NPC) in the Government of Nepal for three intermittent years, first as a Member and then as the Vice-Chair.??

Cecile Fruman?is the Director, Regional Integration and Engagement in the South Asia Region (SAR). She is responsible for fostering greater connectivity and collaborative activities amongst SAR countries.? Cecile has dedicated her career to international development across multiple geographies. She has deep experience in trade and competitiveness, strategy development, portfolio management, and partnerships. A French national, she holds an MBA from ESCP Europe, one of France¡¯s top business schools, and furthered her studies at the University of Osaka in Japan.?

Mandakini Kaul is the World Bank¡¯s Regional Coordinator for South Asia Regional Integration and Engagement and is?based in New Delhi.? Mandakini works on issues of regional cooperation, economic connectivity, and engendered approaches in traditionally gender-blind sectors among countries in South Asia and with neighboring regions in Central Asia, East Asia and beyond. She leads high-level policy-influencing dialogue and knowledge platforms with government and non-government, and manages regional relationships with key counterparts in government, civil society, development agencies, private sector institutions and chambers of commerce, and think tanks.