Dr. Madhura Dutta is Director at banglanatak dot com (www.banglanatak.com), a 20 years old UN accredited social enterprise working towards inclusive and sustainable development using culture-based approaches. She leads international collaboration and research initiatives. She has 19 years of global work experience including UNESCO (as National Programme Officer), All India Artisans & Craftworkers Association (as Executive Director), and as advisor for CSRs. She has extensive experience in programme design, development and management, and policy research and advocacy, focusing on Culture and Development issues. She has a PhD from the School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Mumbai), and MA degrees in Sustainable Development under a Commonwealth Scholarship (Staffordshire University, UK) and Sociology (Calcutta University). She is also a freelance writer.

Dr. Subhra Devi is a curatorial member of the museum of Tezpur University, Assam (India). She has done her PhD in some aspects of Conservation of Sanchipat Manuscripts of Assam from National Museum Institute of History of Art, Museology and Conservation, New Delhi. She was a Mellon Fellow at the Objects Conservation Department of Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York during 2014-15. She received Nehru Trust UK Visiting Fellowship for studying motifs of Assamese handloom textiles in the museum collections of UK. Her career interest is study, documentation and conservation of indigenous art, particularly of North East India.

Nikhil Joshi is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Architecture at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Educated at the University of Pune (India), University of York (UK) and National University of Singapore (Singapore). His research interests include cultural heritage management; traditional building materials and techniques; and community participatory approaches. Before joining NUS, Nikhil worked and taught in India, UK, and Malaysia for over a decade. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, UK, and recipient of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings – Lethaby Scholarship, UK. He has been an active speaker in various conferences throughout the world and has several publications to his name. His main recent publications include Mahabodhi Temple at Bodhgaya: Constructing sacred placeness, deconstructing the ‘great case’ of 1895 (2019); Managing change: Urban heritage and community development in historic Asian cities (2018, edited); Community voices: Preserving the local heritage (2016); People + places: Exploring the living heritage of Songkhla old town (2016, edited)