Ranabir has specialized in sports journalism, business reporting, and identity politics, working with top news media organizations including NDTV, ESPN STAR Sports and Network 18. He was a research assistant for curricula development for IIM, Kolkata and FTII, Pune and taught at IIMC. Ranabir's work has been published by the Routledge Sport in Global Society journal and has co-authored the CricketNext.com T20 Handbook. Ranabir holds a post-graduate diploma in journalism from the Asian College of Journalism and was a gold

medalist in Media Management from the School of Convergence.

Ben Arnoldy covers India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan as the South Asia bureau chief for The Christian Science Monitor. Ben started his professional journalism career in 1999 as a news producer for the Monitor’s website, csmonitor.com. In 2002, he won Best Feature from the Online News Association and the Columbia School of Journalism for an interactive project on the future of American railways. He became the first online reporter to be embedded with the US military during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Ben has also served as the Monitor’s Asia editor and Northern California bureau chief.

Richa has been working as a broadcast journalist for fifteen years. She started her career with NDTV in India before moving on to work with the BBC World Service in London. She has also freelanced for SBS TV(Australia), Deutche Welle, and a few Indian television channels. Richa  has wide experience of reporting and producing current affairs programmes including business and entertainment. She has extensive field reporting experience – including reporting from a war zone. Richa did her documentary direction course at Summerdocs, National Film and Television School (UK). She was awarded the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association- Chevening Fellowship to do her Masters in International Journalism from the University of Westminster (UK) and is a LEAD (Leadership in Environment and Development) fellow.

After many years at Australia's government two broadcasters SBS and the ABC, television journalist and presenter Aarti Betigeri made the move to India in late 2008. Now based in New Delhi, she contributes to a number of outlets globally, including the UK-based current affairs and style magazine Monocle, CNN publications, ABC radio and various travel magazines.

An experienced newspaper editor, Inga was for seven years the head of media relations at Australia’s seventh-biggest public agency, the Western Australian Department of Education and Training. Her role included managing the many high-profile critical incidents that arose in the State’s schools, as well as devising and running large-group, interactive media training sessions for agency executives, district superintendents and school headmasters. Inga has also served as press secretary to the West Australian Cabinet, representing the

Minister for Industrial Relations and the Minister for Prisons.

She has worked for two years in India for local public relations agencies.

Psychologist-turned-media professional, Mala is perhaps best known for her popular personal technology column, “That’s IT” in Businessworld magazine. She has been an Editorial Director at Mindworks Global Media Services, a pioneer in the outsourcing of editorial services. She was also the founding editor of the country’s first home computing magazine, Computer@Home. Mala has extensive experience in training editorial teams. At Mindworks, she has formulated and implemented perhaps the most in-depth copydesk training programme in the country.

Venkat, as he is known, has 25 years of experience in print and broadcast journalism. He has held several key positions in newspapers across the country, such as DNA, Times of India, and Indian Express. His portfolio includes magazines, weeklies, tabloids and broadsheets, and two major news channels. Venkat writes a weekly column on the Indian media and is a consulting editor with MoneyLife, a fortnightly magazine.

Saachi, currently pursuing PhD in media studies from the University of Westminster, is a media trainer and practitioner with experience in broadcast and print journalism. He has produced hundreds of hours of current affairs and documentary programming for radio and television, and more than 50 international radio/TV documentary co-productions. Saachi was an international trainer with Thomson Foundation, a UK-based media development organization. An alumnus of the prestigious IIT, Kanpur, he was awarded the Commonwealth Vision Award 2002 by the Royal Commonwealth Society, London.

Margot had her first story published at the age of 15 and never turned back. She began her career as a university writing tutor before becoming and editor and later, a features writer focusing on music, travel and fine arts. Her work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Outlook Traveler, Lonely Planet, The Oregonian and The Caravan. She also served as the Deputy Editor of Time Out Jaipur in 2008-09. Margot is currently authoring a guidebook waiting to be published at the end of the year. She holds an MA in European Politics from the University of Bath (UK) and Sciences Po Paris (France).

Julian is a distinguished British journalist and author based in New Delhi. As former South & Central Asia correspondent for the UK Sunday Telegraph she has reported widely in the SAARC region, Afghanistan and Iran. Her first novel, Serpent in Paradise, was published in the UK & Commonwealth in 2007. She now corresponds for The Spectator while working on her next book.

He's been behind the lens, as a professional, for over eight years now. His work has been published in a number of domestic and international publications-- namely National Geographic (SA), Impact, RSJ, Society, THE MAN, Andpersand and Savvy, among others. Even though he was ranked as one of the top ten travel photographers in India by Nat Geo in 2007, fashion, photojournalism and fine art photography have remained his top focus areas. All of these revolve around the creative-storytelling form of photography. As a freelancer, his clientele has included publishers, advertising agencies, corporates,

Eric has taught media and communication, as well as expository writing, as an Instructor at New York University and as an Assistant Professor at Denison University. Eric’s research interests and teaching have been focused on developments in media technologies, national and international media industries, globalization, national identity, public service broadcasting, and documentary production. He was awarded a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship for his dissertation

research. Eric earned his PhD. in Media Studies from the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University and his MA in Communication and Journalism from Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel.

Rahul Nanda is currently the Chief Operating Officer (& Partner) at Webchutney the No.1 Digital Agency in India. He rates this as the most interesting role of his career and the madness it brings along keeps him clued to the dynamic world of new media.

He started his career with the National Informatics Centre during the early Internet days in India. He then joined Avaya GlobalConnect as Head of eBusiness

Mahima Kaul is a writer/journalist and has worked with different formats - print, video and online. She has written for The Indian Express, Sunday Guardian, PBS World Focus and also worked on video programming for Al Jazeera and PBS. She was the India producer for PBS's special coverage on the Mumbai Terror Attacks, which was nominated for an Emmy Award. She has a blog that has been picked up by (among others) OpenDemocracy, Global Voices, Huffington Post and Ground Report.

She is deeply involved in ICT4D -- Information and Communication Technologies for Development -- sector. She has worked with Video Volunteers, a community media organization, and helped launch India's first community TV channel, India Unheard. She is a consultant with the Digital Empowerment Foundation where she manages the Digital Knowledge Center, the first information portal in India on best practices in ICT4D.

Mahima has a BA in History and Political Science from McGill University, Canada

and a MA in Community Policy from the University of Westminster, UK. Mahima has also established The Open Communication Foundation as a multidisciplinary platform devoted to ICT4D.

Christina is a multimedia journalist and ICT4D professional. She is currently a President William J. Clinton Fellow at the American India Foundation in Delhi. Her work has appeared on PBS' Worldfocus, The Huffington Post, CNN, The Atlantic online, on the US State Department website and in other outlets. Christina has reported on diverse issues including Kenya's political instability, Kazakhstan's nuclear security facilities and China's treatment of its Uyghur Muslim population. Prior to moving to India, Christina managed multimedia production for the Stanley

Foundation, a US-based foreign policy think tank. During her tenure there, she helped coordinate overseas journalism training programs with the Reuters Foundation and Johns Hopkins International Reporting Project. She has reported from India, China, Kenya, Kazakhstan and the European Union.

Ankur Warikoo is an avid blogger, social media addict and a successful serial entrepreneur in the Internet space. Ankur is currently consultant to Groupon India and also entrepreneur-in-residence at Rocket Internet GmbH. Ankur was a co-Founder of Accentium Web, which owns and operates several websites in the Indian Consumer Space, namely SecondShaadi.com (India’s largest matrimonial service for remarriages), Gaadi.com (India’s 2nd largest Car Portal), StudyNation.com (India’s #1 Education Website) amongst others. Ankur is a graduate from the Class of 2006 at ISB, Hyderabad where he completed his MBA. Post ISB, Ankur joined A.T. Kearney in their consulting practice in India. Ankur is an MS in Physics from Michigan State University and a BS from Hindu College, Delhi University.