Dr. Vijayalakshmy Gupta is a retired Secretary Defence Finance & Former Member-TRAI.

She did her MPhill (Gold Medalist) from University of Madras in 1999 and PhD from Barkatullah University, Bhopal in 2010.

She started her career as Indian Defence Accounts Service Officer in 1974. She has rich experience in Finance, Internal Audit, Accounts and General Administration.

She has served at various key positions during her career including:

i. Joint Secretary and Additional Financial Advisor, Ministry of Defence, Government of India,

ii. Principal Advisor/Financial Advisor, Organizing Committee, Commonwealth Games 2010,

iii. Additional Secretary, Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India,

iv. Member Finance (Telecom Commission and ex officio Secretary to the Government of India) and

v. Secretary-Defence Finance (Ministry of Defence, Government of India)

Dr. Ajit Keshav Ranade is an economist & political analyst based out of Mumbai..

He is PhD in Economics from Brown University and B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Mumbai where he was awarded as distinguished alumunus. He is also an alumnus of IIM, Ahmedabad. He has been a Professor at ICRIER, New Delhi and Assistant Professor at IGIDR, Mumbai. He was the Chief Economist of the Aditya Birla Group & ABN AMRO Bank.

He was Government of India's nominee as Independent Director of Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd., from September 22, 2007 to April 1, 2010. He has served on various committees of the Reserve Bank of India, including the Committee on Fuller Capital Account Convertibility and the committee to review FEMA for Individuals. He is a member of the National Executive Committee of FICCI and Economic Policy Council of CII. He chairs the Research Advisory Panel of the Indian Institute of Banking and Finance. He is a member of the Board of Governors at IIT Mumbai.

He is columnist with Mumbai Mirror. He also writes at First Post, Business Standard, IBN Live and The Economic Times. He has authored several books, namely Life Insurance in India: Emerging Issues, Three Questions about Insurance Liberalisation, Maharashtra's EGS: Regional Patterns, Scope for Reforms and Replication. He is a co-founder and trustee of Association for Democratic Reforms which is an Indian civil society group vying for transparency in the politics of India.

Shri Anjani Kumar Sharma is a Chartered Accountant with vast experience in Audit, Tax and Advisory of Corporate and NPO’s.

Shri Sharma is a partner with Bhawani Sharma & Co. Chartered Accountants (35 year old CA firm). He possesses rich hands on experience and has worked with numerous Corporates Clients in various capacities.

His clients include names like ISCKON, HHI. CASA, Water.org, Change.org. Upaya Social Venture, Samhita Social Venture, A R Rahman Foundation, EHA, EFI, Dr. Reddy Foundation, Essar Foundation, Narayan Hridualaya, Asia Heart Foundation, SITI, Khabar Lahariya, TDH Germany, Scottis Love in Action, Stop Hunger Now, Good CSR Foundation, Goonj & Compassion International.

He is also a member of the Task force for NPO Committee of ICAI. He is the National convener of FCRA (Foreign Contribution Regulation Act) issues (CCONPOICAI) and has been nominated as an expert by ICAI to partner with the Ministry of Home Affairs FCRA department to help them with their outreach programs.

He is visiting faculty with ICAI (Institute of Chartered Accountants of India) and has trained more than 5000 Chartered Accountants in the last 5 years on various subjects and was adjudged the best faculty by NIRC-ICAI earlier in the year 2015.