Akshay Jaitly is a founding partner of the law firm Trilegal and a leading energy and infrastructure lawyer with over 30 years of experience. He also contributes to policy work on energy transition, power sector reform, and improving commercial relationships between the government and the private sector through public writing and the non-profit TrustBridge.

Shiv has been appointed by Hon'ble Prime Minister of India as CEO, Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF). He was previously CTO, Energy Industry, Asia at Microsoft. Previously he was Executive General Manager of Growth Offerings at GE Power Conversion responsible for new Line of Business development in e-Mobility, Commercial & Industrial Solar and digital/AI innovations. Earlier he was at IBM Research - India, and the Chief Scientist of IBM Research - Australia. Before IBM, he was a tenured Full Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, USA. Shiv has degrees from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (B.Tech, CS), Ohio State University (MS, PhD) and RPI (Executive MBA). Shiv is a Distinguished Alumnus Awardee of IIT Madras (2021, recognizing 0.3% of IITM's alumni over the years) & Ohio State University (2021), Fellow of the IEEE (2010), Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering (2015), ACM Distinguished Scientist (2010), Microsoft Gold Club (2024), MIT Technology Review TR100 young innovator (1999).

Philipp Krause specializes in public finance and public administration. He is a co-founder of the Global Public Finance Lab and board secretary of the African Economic Research Consortium. He has held management positions at CABRI (Africa’s network of senior budget officials), the Gates Foundation, and ODI. He has also worked for the German and Mexican governments, and the World Bank.

He holds an MA from the University of Potsdam and a PhD from the LSE. Philipp covered everything from macro-fiscal policy to procurement and performance budgeting but remains most interested in ministries of finance.