Krishna K. Shrestha is Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at the School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Australia.

Hemant R. Ojha is Research Fellow with the School of Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and also the Chair of Southasia Institute of Advanced Studies (SIAS), Nepal.

Phil McManus is Professor of Urban and Environmental Geography at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Anna Rubbo, formerly Associate Professor in Architecture at the University of Sydney, Australia, is a senior scholar in the Centre for Sustainable Urban Development in the Earth Institute at Columbia University, New York, USA.

Krishna K. Dhote is Professor of Architecture at Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT), Bhopal, India.