Devesh Kapur is director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India and holds the Madan Lal Sobti Professorship for the Study of Contemporary India at the University of Pennsylvania. He was earlier an associate professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, and before that the Frederick Danziger Associate Professor of Government at Harvard University. His publications include The World Bank: Its First Half Century; Public Institutions in India: Performance and Design; Give Us Your Best and Brightest: The Global Hunt for Talent and Its Impact on the Developing World. He has recently completed a book manuscript on the domestic impact of international migration from India. He holds a B.Tech. and M.S. in chemical engineering; and a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Princeton University

Gay Seidman is a professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has written widely on labor, gender and social movements in southern Africa and Latin America. Her most recent book, Beyond the Boycott: Labor Rights, Human Rights and Transnational Activism(Russell Sage, 2007) examines labor monitoring schemes in South Africa, India and Guatemala.