Dr. Sachchida Nand Tripathi is a Professor of Civil Engineering at IIT Kanpur. He is the recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award and the J C Bose National Fellowship. Prof. Tripathi holds the Arjun Dev Joneja Chair at IIT Kanpur. He is an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) and National Academy of Sciences of India (NASI) and recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus award of Banaras Hindu University. He was a Senior Fellow at NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre. He has made impactful contribution to address challenges of Air Pollution and Climate Change. Prof Tripathi has built ground-breaking innovative approaches for indigenously built low-cost sensor-based network technologies for nation-wide urban air quality monitoring and Real Time Source Apportionment (RTSA). He is also the Coordinator of the National Knowledge Network, formed under the National Clean Air Program and an expert member of Steering Committee and Monitoring Committee, National Clean Air Program and member of Executive Council, Climate Change Program, Department of Science and Technology.

Dr Gargava is currently the Member Secretary at Central Pollution Control Board under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. A thought leader and strategist in the field of Environmental Engineering and Management, Prashant is a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering and a Fulbright scholar (Nevada, USA) in Environment leadership. Prashant has more than 30 years of diverse and eclectic experience in environmental policies, sector specific statutory requirements and regulations, air quality policy and urban air quality management. Not only has he spearheaded key air quality initiatives in India (including Air Quality Index AQI and National Air Quality Standards), but he has also delved in academic endeavours like teaching/supervising numerous grad students at SPA (School of Planning and Architecture) and IIT Delhi. He has co-authored the guidance framework for Air Quality Management in Asian cities for Clean Air Asia (CAA) and conceptualized National Clean Air Program (NCAP) for India. He led India's well known Six City Source Apportionment study that guided future air quality action plans and also developed the country's first environmental databank.

Dr. Sumit Sharma is presently working with United Nations Environment Programme. Previously he worked as Director (Earth Science and Climate Change Division, TERI and was convening a group of 15 researchers in TERI focusing on various environmental issues. In last 14 years, he has worked on more than 20 projects related to air quality management which involved air quality monitoring, emission inventorisation, air quality modelling, and drafting air quality management plans. He has worked on pollution source apportionment studies carried out for different cities/regions in India, in which he was actively involved in preparing emission inventories and carrying out air quality simulations. He was also the part of the main team to carry out Indo-California Air Pollution Mitigation Program for control of vehicular emissions in India. Recently, under the chairman ship of Prof. V. Ramanathan, he has led a team of 25 researchers across 17 different international institutes to come up with a report's Breathing Cleaner Air to provide 10 scalable solutions for air quality improvement in India. ). Dr Sumit is a pass out from Delhi College of Engineering and Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.

Mr. Deshmukh has over 40 years of experience in automotive components manufacturing that includes Process Control, Design, Quality Assurance, Marketing, including R&D. He currently is the Group CTO at the Sona Comstar Group that has operations in India, China, Mexico, Germany, Hungary, and the US. He started his career in 1975 as a graduate engineer with Bharat Gears Ltd working in R&D, Production, Heat Treatment, Furnace Design, and Manufacturing. In 1986, he moved on to set up Sona Koyo Steering Systems Ltd., which is today the largest steering systems manufacturer in the country. In the 30 years at Sona-Koyo, he held various positions including COO, Dy. Managing Director, and Executive Vice Chairman – the position he held from September 2015 to May 2017. Mr. Deshmukh spearheaded company’s implementation of the TPS, TQM, and TPM and led the company to be the recipient of the Deming Prize in 2003 and TPM Excellence Awards in 2008 and 2017. Mr. Kiran Deshmukh is a graduate in Metallurgical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (Bombay), Mumbai.

Dr. Sagnik Dey is Institute Chair professor at the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, coordinator of the Centre of Excellence for Research on Clean Air (CERCA), Co-coordinator of CAPHER INIDA and an associate faculty of School of Public Policy at IIT Delhi, India. His research interest is to understand the interlinkages of air pollution and climate change and how it impacts human health. Dr Dey has been involved in several national (e.g., National Carbonaceous Aerosol Program, National Clean Air Mission, National Climate Mission etc.) and international (e.g., NASA's MAIA mission, Indo-UK, Indo-Poland bilateral program) projects. He is a consultant of the World Bank on air quality management and is working with several UN bodies (UNEP, UNDP) on various issues of air pollution. He is a member of the WHO Southeast Asia RTAG on non-communicable diseases. He is a collaborator of the Global Burden of Disease Study. He was awarded INSA Young Scientist Medal in 2008, NASI-SCOPUS Young Scientist Award in 2012, Institute Teaching Excellence Award in 2016 and Fulbright-Nehru Professional and Academic Exellence Award in 2017-18. He is serving as Associate Editor in Atmospheric Environment, and Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports (Nature) and Earth System Dynamics. Dr Dey has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals.

Hemant is a Mechanical Engineer from Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology having served the Indian power generation sector for more than 30 years in companies such as NTPC and CLP including consulting assignments with Hitachi, BCG, Mckinsey and A&M. He also holds an MBA in Finance and a PG Diploma in Environment.