Prof Dwijendra Tripathi, IIM, Ahmedabad; Dr Arvind Panagariya, former Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog, New Delhi; Sharad Pawar, Member of Parliament; Dr Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, President, Indian Council for Cultural Relations and MP, Rajya Sabha; Maneck Davar, Editor, Marwar India, Mumbai; Murlidhar Mohol, Mayor, Pune; Bibek Debroy, Chairman, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India; Dr R A Mashelkar, FRS, National Research Professor; Pritish Nandy, Journalist, Parliamentarian, Media and Television Personality; Dr N R Karmalkar, Vice Chancellor, SP Pune University; Sadanand More, Chairman, Maharashtra State Board of Literature and Culture; Deepak Chhabria, Executive Chairman, Finolex Cables Limited; Inder Sawhney, Chief of Bureau, Gujarat Samachar; Suresh Prabhu, former Minister of Commerce and Industry, Government of India; Rashesh Shah, former President, FICCI; Rakesh Bharti Mittal, former President, CII; Dharmendra Pradhan, former Minister of State, Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India and current Union HRD Minister.

Vikas Singh, Deputy Executive Editor, The Times of India; Padma Vibhushan Prof V S Vyas, former Member Economic Advisory Council to Prime Minister; Prof A M Khusro, Editor, Financial Express; Abid Hussain, former Member, Planning Commission; Hamid Ansari, former Vice President of India; Bal Ram Jakhar, former Speaker, Lok Sabha; Chandra Shekhar, former Prime Minister; Dr J A Laidlaw, Kings College, Cambridge; Dr Kedar Nath Modi, former Chairman, Modi Enterprises; L K Jha, former Principal Adviser to Prime Minister of India; Nirmala Sitharaman, former Minister of State, Commerce and Industry and current Finance Minister; P V Narasimha Rao, former Prime Minister of India; Prabhu Chawla, former Senior Editor, India Today; Dr Raja J Chelliah, former Minister of State, Ministry of Finance, Govt of India; Ramkrishna Bajaj, Head of Bajaj Group; Dr Ramnath Anandilal Poddar, Industrialist; Stefen F Dale, Associate Prof, The Ohio State University; Prof Y Sudarshan Rao, Chairperson, Indian Council of Historical Research; Vidya Niwas Mishra, Principal Editor, Nav Bharat Times; Yogendra Kumar Alagh, former Vice Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; Bal Kavi Bairagi, former Member, Parliament; Ashok Gehlot, Chief Minister, Rajasthan.