Arpita Basu Roy is a PhD from the Department of International Relations, Jadavpur University, Kolkata and Fellow at the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata. She has also been a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), University of Cambridge. She is the recipient of the 10th Wrangler Pavate Fellowship for International Studies (2010).
She has authored two books entitled Contemporary Afghanistan: Conflict and Peace-building and Afghanistan: Towards A Viable State.
Binoda Kumar Mishra is a PhD in Disarmament Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and is a Fellow at the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata, an autonomous research Institute under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. He is the coordinator of a civilian initiative to promote sub-regional cooperation between India and China namely, Kolkata to Kunming (K2K) Forum.