Nidhi Batra is a development practitioner with over 17 years of experience, trained as an architect, and environmental urban designer. She holds a postgraduate diploma in environmental law and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Urban Commons. She engages in policy, planning and community-led sustainable development.

She is the Founder of Sehreeti and is also engaged as a Sustainable Skills Specialist in The World Bank, with which she has been consulting since 2012. She is the Regional Head for Placemaking India, an affiliate of PlacemakingX advocating inclusive and vibrant public places. She is a WomenLead India Fellow of Vital Voices and Reliance Foundation. She regularly consults on 'strategy, impact, and skill development' in various organizations. She is a visiting faculty in architectural colleges in Delhi-NCR

Nidhi was earlier Head of International Collaboration and New Initiatives at the National Skill Development Corporation.

Arvinder Singh trained as an architect from the School of Planning & Architecture, New Delhi and has since graduating worked mainly in Retail Design & Architecture. He is the Director at Sehreeti Developmental Practices.

He is passionate about the natural environment and has diverse pursuits in all forms of communication – audio and visual. He was co-host to an internationally acclaimed podcast on Motorcycling in India called the Biker Radio Rodcast which, while documenting and archiving the passionate people behind the emerging 2-wheeler story in India, ran successfully every fortnight for over 2 years.

He also has a passionate interest in photography and image making and has been part of a handful of group exhibitions in photography.

Ms. Apjit Bassi is an educationist with an experience of over 40 years. Her passion and love for teaching is continuing till date.

She regularly conducts workshops and hands-on activities for various publishers like Ratna Sagar, Millenium and Britannica. She has also developed content material for primary school books for Word for Word, Scholastic, Oxford, Elepsis, Learning World and Brittanica. Actively involved with an NGO called PEAS (Programme for Environmental Awareness in Schools), she organizes conferences for Schools all over India to bring awareness on environmental issues.

Prof. Savyasachi is Professor at the Department of Sociology Jamia Millia Islamia. He has worked in the fields of political ecology, indigenous people, development, social movements, and conservation architecture. He has taught social anthropology to students of ‘conservation architecture, at the School of Planning and Architecture Delhi. At National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, he has taught weeklong SLA courses on Indian Society and culture, has been sharing with textile students ways of doing field work and Craft Documentation and has taught to a course of ‘visual language’.

Member Senate National Institute of Design; Member Advisory Committee of SAP-DSA 1 Dept of Sociology NEHU Shillong, Meghalaya; Member Advisory Committee Building Beauty Star initiative for Architecture Education which is based on the works of the architect Christopher Alexander.

Ms. Prathima Manohar chairs India based Think-do–Tank on Livable Cities – The Urban Vision. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Architecture. A Stanford University's prestigious Draper Hills Fellowship awardee in 2011 she has been a Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center.

As an Urbanist, she has worked on projects and researched on issues such as place-making , affordable housing, participatory planning and green cities. She has been a contributing TV Journalist with France24 and TF1 and has also written for the opinion pages of the International Herald Tribune , The Wall Street Journal and the Architecture Record. In 2017 she was listed as top 50 Most Impactful Global Social Innovators at World CSR Day. She was among Global Honourees of 2009 CONSIUSA's "Young Leaders Program" which reconises emerging leaders under the age of 40.

Dr. J.C. Batra is the Founder, Chief Editor and President of Siraiki Duniya, Siraiki International , Siraiki Sahitya Sangam and Age-Care India.

He obtained his higher education at the Universities of Panjab, Delhi, Nagpur, Leiden University and Lincolns Inn ( London,U.K. ).

He is M.A., LL.M, Ph.D., Barrister - at – law, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court Of India.

He promotes Siraiki language throughout the world and is a Human Rights Activist.

Late Prof. M.N. Ashish Ganju qualified from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in 1966. He returned to India in 1967 for higher studies and has since been researching through teaching and practice.

He has taught at the School of Planning and Architecture, and the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi. He was founding Director of the TVB School of Habitat Studies, New Delhi, Visiting Professor at the University of East London, U.K., and the Universita IUAV di Venezia, Italy.

He is Founder Member and President of Greha, a not for profit organization engaged in the field of environmental development, habitat design and architecture.