Vasant P. Gandhi is former NABARD Chair Professor and currently Visiting Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA). He holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University and has been Chairman of IIMA's Centre for Management in Agriculture, Board Member of IIMA, and Founder Chairman of IIMA's Postgraduate Programme in Agri-Business Management. He has worked with the World Bank and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington, and has been Visiting/ Adjunct Professor at University of Sydney, James Cook University-Australia and University of South Australia. He has published numerous books and over 100 research papers on topics ranging from economics, markets, agribusiness, finance, food & agriculture policies, institutions, and technology in agriculture.
Kanish Debnath is Economics Faculty Member at the FLAME University Pune. He did his Doctoral (Fellow) Programme at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. He has been part of many research projects of government and private organizations. His research proposal was accepted for a grant of the ‘NSE-IFMR Finance Foundation (IFF) Financial Deepening & Household Finance Research Initiative’. He was been Visiting Lecturer for Masters in Agribusiness Economics Programme at Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune. He has several publications.