Loreto College, Kolkata

Member of leading Bengali theatre group Bohurupee, and received guidance from the Late Tripti Mitra. She has acted in several films, the first released film being Mrinal Sen's Mahaprithvi, as well as television shows. She has worked with directors such as Buddhadev Dasgupta, Goutam Ghosh and Rituporno Ghosh. She has won two State Academy awards from the West Bengal Government, two BFJA awards and received an individual grant from the US Government. She was awarded an Anondolok award, a Big FM award and a Star Jalsa award for Best Actress in various roles. Her recent films include Gotra and Mukherjee Dar Bou (both 2019).

Assistant Secretary-General for Resource Management, Sustainability and Partnerships and Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women).

Advertising consultant and widely published author. Her publications include a book of short stories, several novels including Curses In Ivory, Black Tongue and Chinku and the Wolfboy. She has worked on scripts with director Rituparno Ghosh for Antarmahal and The Last Lear and has subtitled several of his films including Unishe April, Dahan and Chokher Bali. She also recently subtitled the Rahul Bose starrer, Antaheen.

Anjum Katyal is a writer, editor and translator. She has been Chief Editor, Seagull Books, as well as Editor, Seagull Theatre Quarterly Calcutta, and Web Editor, Saregama-HMV. She is Consultant Director, Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival, and Curator, Nabanna Earth Weekend (NEW) festival of arts and ideas.

Founder and Executive Director of RAHI Foundation, an NGO in New Delhi working towards prevention and intervention in the area of incest and child sexual abuse. It was set up in 1996 and is the only organization of its kind in India. In recognition for her work, Anuja has been awarded the MacArthur and the Ashoka Fellowships.

A former student and teacher at Loreto College. Wife of Lord Swraj Paul, she played a key role in setting up the Ambika Paul Foundation in memory of their daughter; its main aim is to promote the well being of children and young people throughout the world through education, culture and health. Lady Paul is a Trustee and chairperson of various organizations including the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan UK, the largest institute for Indian art and culture outside India. She is a Patron of Women's India Association (UK), the longest established Asian charity in Britain.

Asma Khan is the chef and owner of Darjeeling Express. Asma is the first British chef to feature in Netflix’s Emmy nominated Chef’s Table. Her episode also received a 2020 James Beard Award nomination. Business Insider named her number 1 on their list of "100 Coolest People in Food and Drink". The Evening Standard listed her in The Progress 1000 as one of London s most influential people 2019. She has been included in the eighth edition of the GG2 Power List profiling Britain's 101 most influential Asians and she is now the first chef to be featured on Vogue’s list of '25 most influential women of year for 2020.'

Veteran journalist, Media Brand-builder and global trainer, Litfest curator, Best-selling authorShe was the first Indian on the board of the World Editors Forum, and a recipient of the US-based Mary Morgan Hewitt Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism and a Jefferson Fellow of the East West Centre, Honolulu. She is on the advisory boards of the National AIDS Control Organisation and the India AIDS Initiative of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Her books include Dare to Dream, which is the best-selling biography of M S Oberoi, Mumbai Masti, Behind The Times, and The Cake That Walked on Calcutta’s heritage confectioners Flurys.

An award-winning Indian-born writer in the USA. She was a Professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She and her husband Clarke Blaise co-authored Days and Nights in Calcutta (1977). They also wrote the 1987 work, The Sorrow and the Terror: The Haunting Legacy of the Air India Tragedy. In 1988 Bharati Mukherjee won National Book Critics Circle Award for The Middleman and Other Stories.

Vice-Principal of Welham Girls’ School from 1997-2017. She received the National Award for Teachers in from President Dr. A P J Kalam in 2003. She is also the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Varkey/Gems Foundation and was awarded a Summer Fellowship for Teachers at Emory University. She was honoured by the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme in 1992. Dayita was the 1st Indian winner of BBC Mastermind in 1998. She has published Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Primary History series). Currently, she is senior history teacher at Assam Valley School.