Aroon Purie, founding Chairman & Editor-in-Chief of the India Today Group. The Group includes 10 magazines, 3 leading 24-hour news channels, 3 radio stations, and a robust digital, mobile, and social media presence, making it India's most respected and diversified media conglomerate. Aroon has been instrumental in changing the face of journalism in India.

 Navdeep Suri was India’s Ambassador to UAE, High Commissioner to Australia, Ambassador to Egypt and Consul General in Johannesburg. His acclaimed translations include his grandfather Nanak Singh’s novels, Pavitra Paapi as The Watchmaker and Adh Khidya Phul as A Life Incomplete. His recent work includes the searing Partition novels, Hymns in Blood and A Game of Fire and Khooni Vaisakhi – a long poem written by Nanak Singh in 1920 after surviving the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

Harpreet is a versatile artiste, who sings original musical compositions in Hindi, as well as, in regional Indian languages and dialects such as Punjabi, Bengali, Assamese, Rajasthani and Haryanvi. He is best known for creating musical scores to epic works of humanist poets like Kabir and Bulleh Shah. The rhythmic blend of soulful poetry to the pulsating sounds of guitar and percussion are at once unique and innovative, familiar and foreign.  Harpreet has performed at Rajasthan Kabir Yatra, Mahindra Kabira Festival, Jaipur Literature Festival, Sacred Pushkar, Sacred Amritsar Festival, and many more festivals across India and abroad.

Tarun Tahiliani  started his professional career with a degree in Business Management from the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. After returning to India, he saw the vast potential in the fine clothing and couture industry that was evolving in the country, and in 1987, he opened India’s first multi designer boutique, Ensemble, heralding a fashion and retail revolution in India. In 1991, Tahiliani decided to hone his technical knowledge in design, and received an associate degree from the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York. He founded his design studio in 1995.

Hailed as the award-winning creator of New York Fashion Week, Fern Mallis has been called an industry titan, Fashion doyenne, and often dubbed the “Godmother of Fashion.” After two decades of influential work at the CFDA and IMG Fashion, she now leads her own international consulting firm as President. For the past 12 years, Mallis has been the esteemed host of the famously acclaimed and sold-out 92NY conversation series “Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis”. She is also the author of a book series chronicling these conversations, published by Rizzoli and sponsored by Nordstrom.

Tania James is the author of four works of fiction, all published by Knopf: The Tusk That Did the Damage, which was a finalist for the International Dylan Thomas Prize and the Financial Times Oppenheimer Award; Aerogrammes and Other Stories, named a Best Book of 2012 by Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, and The San Francisco Chronicle; and the novel Atlas of Unknowns, which was a New York Times Editor’s Choice and a finalist for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Her short stories have appeared in Freeman’s: The Future of New Writing; Granta; The New Yorker; O, The Oprah Magazine; and One Story, among other places, and featured on Symphony Space Selected Shorts. She has received fellowships from the Macdowell Colony, Ragdale, the Sustainable Arts Foundation, and the Fulbright Program. An associate professor of English in the MFA program at George Mason University, her new novel, Loot, was published by Knopf Doubleday in June 2023 and longlisted for the National Book Award for fiction. 

Sree Sreenivasan is president of SAJA, South Asian Journalists Association, and is former Chief Digital Officer of New York City, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Columbia University. He serves on the board of Nobel Prize Outreach. In 2004, Newsweek named him one of the 20 most influential young South Asians in America, alongside rising politician Kamala Harris. His digital and training agency, Digimentors, is proud to partner with JLF USA.