Balaraman Ravindran is the founding head of the Wadhwani School of Data Science and AI, the Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science & AI and the Centre for Responsible AI (CeRAI) at IIT Madras. He has more than three decades of experience working in reinforcement learning, and his research interests span responsible AI and deep RL. Prof. Ravindran is an elected fellow of the Association for the Advancement of AI (AAAI) and the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) and an ACM Distinguished Member. He was the chair of the committee that drafted the India AI Governance Guidelines to provide a framework for the development and deployment of safe and trustworthy AI systems. He was a member of RBI's FREE-AI Framework, which provided guidelines for safe, ethical AI adoption in India's financial sector and the Strategy for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare for India (SAHI). Recently, he has also been serving on the UN International Independent Scientific Panel on AI, chairing the committee drafting India's Risk Management Framework for AI, and is a member of the Technology and Policy Expert Committee (TPEC), established by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) to support India's AI governance architecture.

Krishna Ravi Srinivas is the DPIIT IPR Chair Professor and Director of the N. C. Banerjee Centre for Intellectual Property Rights Studies. He heads the Center of Excellence in AI and Law at NALSAR University of Law and does teaching and research on regulation/governance of emerging technologies, particularly AI. In addition to heading the Centre of Excellence in AI & Law, he is associated with NALSAR's AI-related activities, including teaching AI-related courses in NPTEL. He holds a PhD from NLSIU Bangalore. He was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, a Visiting Scholar at Indiana University, Bloomington; a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the South Centre, Geneva; a Visiting Faculty at IIM-B; and a Senior Fellow and Consultant at RIS, New Delhi. He has written extensively on various topics, including IPR-related themes, governance of AI, neurotechnology, neuro-rights and legal implications, crop genome editing, and responsible research and innovation (RRI). He is involved in international initiatives and working groups such as the OECD Biofutures Expert Group and CHOICE: the Coalition for Health AI Innovation and Working Group on Ethics. He has collaborated with UNESCO as part of a team of experts on its AI and the Rule of Law program.

Geetha Raju is a Senior Policy Analyst in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science at the Centre for Responsible AI (CeRAI), IIT Madras. She is a technologist-turned-policy researcher whose work sits at the intersection of technology, governance, and society. At CeRAI, Dr. Geetha specialises in AI governance, focusing on AI safety evaluations, AI risk management, human-AI trust, ethical AI deployment, and the auditing of AI systems for the Global South. She has worked across industry and government to implement AI strategies and solutions, both for national and state initiatives, including the IndiaAI Mission and the governments of Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, and Uttar Pradesh, for AI-enabled public service delivery and the public good. Dr. Raju holds a PhD in Information and Communications Engineering from Anna University, Chennai, specialising in AI and user data privacy; an M.E. in Software Engineering from the College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University, Chennai; and a B.Tech. in Information Technology from Anna University, Chennai.