Anjini Kochar is Senior Research Scholar and has served as India Program Director at the Stanford Center for International Development since 2000. From 1990 to 2000 she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Stanford University. Her research has concentrated on poverty and rural development in India, and has appeared in the Journal of Political Economy, The Review of Economics and Statistics and The American Economic Review among other publications. Dr Kochar is also an associate editor of Economic Development and Cultural Change. Her Ph.D. in economics was awarded by the University of Chicago.

Roger Noll is Professor of Economics Emeritus at Stanford University and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. Previously, he served as a Senior Economist at the President's Council of Economic Advisors and as a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC, and as Institute Professor of Social Science, California Institute of Technology. Professor Noll has published 14 books and written more than 300 professional articles on technology policy, regulation and privatization, and the political economy of public policy and public law. He has been a member of numerous federal and state commissions and advisory boards.

Nicholas C. Hope has served as Director of the Stanford Center for International Development at Stanford University since 2007; from 2000 to 2007 he was the Center's Deputy Director. Dr Hope joined the World Bank in Washington DC in 1977 and held positions through 2000 as chief of the external debt division, chief of the industry and energy division for Indonesia and the Pacific Islands, country director for China and Mongolia, resident director in Indonesia, and director in the office of the vice president for Europe and Central Asia. He co-edited two volumes in 2003 and 2008 on Chinese policy reform. Dr Hope received his Ph.D. from Princeton University.