Jesal Thacker is an artist by training, but she chose to pursue scholarship in art instead of art practice. A graduate with a degree in painting from Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai, she engages with research on modern and contemporary Indian art.

Uthra Rajgopal is a Curator with expertise in South Asian textiles, holding former curatorial positions at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London and The Whitworth in Manchester.

Glenn Adamson is a curator, writer and historian based in New York and London. The author most recently of A Century of Tomorrows (Bloomsbury, 2024), he is currently Curator at Large for the Vitra Design Museum in Germany, Artistic Director for Design Doha (a biennial festival in Qatar) and editor of Material Intelligence, a quarterly online journal published by the Chipstone Foundation.

Isabella Rosner is the Curator of the Royal School of Needlework and Research Associate at Witney Antiques. At both institutions she researches and cares for nearly 500 years of needlework.

Amin Jaffer is Director of The Al Thani Collection, an encyclopaedic holding of over 5,000 works of art spanning millennia, representing the vision of His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah Al Thani.

Mayank Mansingh Kaul is a New Delhi-based independent researcher and curator with a focus on post-independence histories of textiles in India.

Karishma Swali is the Creative Director of Chanakya International and Chairperson of the Chanakya Foundation. With over 25 years of experience at the intersection of craft, couture and art, she has been instrumental in shaping a practice rooted in cultural preservation. In 2015, she founded the Chanakya Foundation to address social, economic, and environmental challenges through education and cultural sustainability. The following year, she established the Chanakya School of Craft-a nonprofit dedicated to empowering women through craft and the transmission of cultural knowledge.