Mary E. John was formerly Professor and Director of the Centre for Women's Development Studies, New Delhi. She was Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Women's Studies Programme at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, from 2001 to 2006.

Barbara Lotz studied Indology in Heidelberg and New Delhi, focusing on modern Hindi literature, literary history, and translation studies. She has been coordinating Indo-German academic partnerships under the DAAD format: A New Passage to India since 2010 and is part of the M.S. Merian - R. Tagore ICAS:MP as a module member of TM 5, The Challenge of Gender (University of Wuerzburg).

Elisabeth Schömbucher is a former Professor of Anthropology. She has been teaching at the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg, and joined the Department of Indology at Würzburg University in 2006. Besides teaching Anthropology of South Asia, she has conceptualised the teaching programme Global Systems and Intercultural Competence (GSiK).