Mr. Nitin Gadkari, one of the seniors most members of the Narendra Modi government, is seen as a man of the masses, an accomplished social reformer, an adroit statesman and administrator. A seasoned politician, he has earned for himself the distinction of being a visionary thinker and deft executor. As a minister for Road Transport & Highways, he is credited with achieving fastest highways construction rate, taking it from 3 km/day in 2014 to 30 km/day. He was elected to the 16th Sabha from Nagpur winning by an impressive margin. On 26th May 2014, he was first time sworn in as the Union Minister for Road Transport, Highways and Shipping. Mr Gadkari introduced agrarian reforms in Maharashtra including water conservation and several other farmer welfare projects. He adopted the PPP (Public Private Partnership) model popularly known as BOT (Build Operate Transfer), for executing infrastructure projects. This concept was instrumental in making India’s first expressway - the Mumbai-Pune Expressway and 55 flyovers in Mumbai, a reality, in record time.

Dr. Rajiv Kumar is a leading Indian economist and the former Vice-Chairperson of NITI Aayog, the chief policy think tank of the Government of India. Currently he is the Chancellor of the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics. He is the author of several books on India’s economy and national security. His latest books are Modi & His Challenges (2016), Resurgent India: Ideas and Priorities (2015), and Exploding Aspirations: Unlocking India’s Future (2014). He is a widely recognized columnist and a leading speaker on issues in the Indian political economy. He is also the founding director of Pahle India Foundation (PIF), Delhi, a non-profit think tank that focuses on facilitating economic policy change based on objective and rigorous research. He has been a Senior Fellow at the Centre of Policy Research, a chief think-tank in Delhi, the Secretary-General of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), the Director & Chief Executive of the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), the Chief Economist at the Confederation of India Industries (CII), the Principal Economist at Asian Development Bank, Manila, and Economic Advisor in the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Government of India.

Mr. RC Bhargava, a former Indian Administrative Services officer, is the chairman of India’s largest automaker Maruti Suzuki India Limited. In 2003, he joined as a director at the automaker which was then called Maruti Udyog Limited. Earlier on, he served as the President and CEO of RCB Consulting Private Limited, a management and human resource consultancy outfit with various domestic and international clients. His association with Maruti goes back to 1985 when he was was the Managing Director. He also had different stints with the company, also as Chairman & Managing Director. Bhargava, who also sits on the boards of Dabur India Limited, Taj Asia Limited, Hitachi India Trading Pvt Ltd, among others, did his Master of Sciences in Mathematics from Allahabad University and Master of Arts in Developmental Economics from Williams College, USA.

Ms. Kanika Tekriwal, Founder & CEO, JetSetGo Aviation Services, had started the company in 2012 as an aviation startup to provide private jet and helicopter operator and aggregator services. Today, JetSetGo is India’s first online marketplace for private jet and helicopter charter. She has featured in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list as well as on the BBC 100 most inspiring women. She aims to put India on the aviation map.

Mr. Rishi Agarwal is the Co-founder & CEO of TeamLease Regtech, India’s leading regulatory technology company. Its technology simplifies the complexity of India's regulatory universe and enables ease of doing business for organisations. He is a passionate technology entrepreneur and believe in the infinite potential of technology to transform human lives. Rishi’s vision for the company is to enable a cashless, paperless, presence less and digital Risk and Compliance Program in India. They have built a cloud based, multi-tenant, web and mobile SAAS offering that helps customers reduce their missed compliances by over 95%. Rishi has co-authored a report titled "Jailed for Doing Business" highlighting deeply ingrained hostility and mistrust in India's regulatory ecosystem and also published a coffee table photo book titled "Varanasi : A passage to immortality".

Mr. Jaffrey Thomas is the Partner – Logistics and Transport Infrastructure at PWC India. He has been with PWC since 2018. A mechanical engineer from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Thomas did his post graduate diploma in management from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. Over the years he has led several marquee and complex engagements driven by private sector entry in key infrastructure sectors in India. These include supporting clients in their India / Bangladesh market entry strategy and in developing growth strategies across 3PL, Container Logistics, Oil & Gas Logistics and Freight Terminal businesses, assessing investment opportunities in the areas of temperature controlled logistics, private railway operations (freight and passenger) and multimodal terminals.

Mr. Vijay Chhibber, the Director General at Energy Power Transmission Association, is a former Roads and Highways Secretary in the Government of India. He has also been an advisor to Chief Minister of Tripura and served as the chairman of NHAI. In the private sector, Chhibber served as a director at EVM Pvt Ltd, Dilip Buildcon, Century Ply, ICT India, Scania (India) and Vizag General Cargo Berth Private Limited. He has also served as an advisor to Vedanta, Enroute Technologies Private Limited, International Roads Federation (IRF), Geneva and has been a Member Management Committee at the Indian Maritime University, Chennai.