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Samuel Paul is the Former Director and Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and the Founder of the Public Affairs Centre, Bangalore, a non-profit organization known for its promotion of public accountability and good governance. He has taught at the Kennedy School at Harvard University and at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. He also served several international organizations such as the World Bank in Washington, where he was an advisor, and the United Nations where he was a special advisor to the United Nations Commission on Transnational Corporations. He is a recipient of both national and international honours, including the Padma Shri (Government of India), Fred Riggs Award of the American Society of Public Administration, All India Management Association’s Nohria Award and the Gill Memorial Award of the World Bank.

Kala Seetharam Sridhar is Professor and Head, Centre for Research in Urban Affairs, Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore. She has written several books on urban issues, and contributed to several journals and articles in various books. She is the recipientof several national awards such as the VKRV Rao award for her contributions to social sciences, and international awards by the Global Development Network (GDN) for her research. She was India countryexpert for ADB’s project on green urbanization in Asia, and is involved in ADB’s project on urbanization in India and China. She was senior advisor to GDN’s global project on urbanization, and member of the government of Karnataka’s expert committees on urban development.?