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Nicolo Andreula is the Scientific Director of the Master in Digital Entrepreneurship at H-Farm. He holds MBA courses and seminars in leading business schools around the world such as INSEAD Nanyang Business School in Singapore and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has worked for leading professional service firms such as McKinsey &: Company and Goldman Sachs building long-standing relationships with clients like Google Netflix Uber Microsoft the World Economic Forum.

Nicolas Albertoni is a professor at the Catholic University of Uruguay where he conducts researcher on international political economy and trade policy. He is a Fulbright-Laspau Scholar who holds a Ph.D. in political science and international relations at University of Southern California (USC). He received a Masters in economics from USC and a Masters in Latin American Studies from Georgetown Universitys School of Foreign Service.

Nicolas Bauquet is Research Director at Institut Montaigne since 2018. A graduate of Ecole normalesuprieure and holder of an agrgation of history he has taught at Sciences Po and Harvard.

Nicolas Blarel is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science Leiden University in The Netherlands. He has published The Evolution of Indias Israel Policy: Continuity Change and Compromise since 1922 (Oxford University Press 2015) and recently co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Indias National Security (Oxford University Press 2018)

Nicolas Buchoud is the co-founder and President of the Grand Paris Alliance for Metropolitan Development, a think tank established in 2011 that focuses on inclusive, large-scale investment projects and environmental transformations. He is also the co-owner of Renaissance Urbaine, a strategic advisory consultancy he founded in 2006. Buchoud has extensive experience in public service, having served as a senior advisor to the President of the Paris Ile-de-France Region and held several other public roles. He is a member of the T20, a G20 think tank group, and has a strong educational background with multiple master’s degrees from Sciences Po Paris and Paris La Sorbonne University. His work spans across urban research and development, with a particular focus on sustainable urban transitions globally.

Nicolas is a postdoctoral researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute working on the Geonet project. He studies how digital entrepreneurship works in environments that are far more challenging than Silicon Valley or London. His comparative grounded research covers African cities including Nairobi Lagos Accra Kigali and Harare. Nicolas is interested in the interplay of environmental factors with entrepreneurial motivations and capacities. Ultimately this work addresses the question how and why digital entrepreneurship flourishes in some places but not in others.

Nicole Rocque works as an Innovation Specialist at the Good Food Institute India at the intersection of business advisory and policy engagement to build the alternative protein sector in the country across business science and policy. Formerly as part of the Government of India's National Investment Promotion and Facilitation Agency Invest India. Nicole graduated from the University of Warwick with a degree in Economics

Nidhi Piplani Kapur Irish Research Council PhD Scholar-Internationalisation at Home South East Technological University Ireland: Head Symbiosis Centre for European Studies Symbiosis International (Deemed University) India

Nikhil Goveas is Head of Special Projects at Koan Advisory Group a New Delhi-based consultancy. Nikhil leads Koan's work on agriculture and sustainability.

Nikhil Kaura is Chief Manager strategy and corporate affairs at Samsung South West Asia HQ. He has over nine years of experience across quantitative research business development and marketing corporate strategy and public policy. He has to his credit several policy engagements at top government levels which include major initiatives like electronics development policy. Nikhil has previously worked with leading global research groups like GFK and TNS: consumer companies like Dabur and Gionee in the sphere of data driven discussion making strategy formulations and management. His recent focus has been on foreign trade manufacturing data protection and emerging technologies.

Nikhil Pahwa is the Founder Editor and Publisher of MediaNama (www.medianama.com) the leading publication for news and analysis on the evolving digital ecosystemin India. Nikhil is also a TED Fellow as well as a co-founder with SaveTheInternet.inand Internet Freedom Foundation.

Nikhil Raymond Puri is an independent researcher and risk consultant. He obtained his PhD in Politics from the University of Oxford.

Nikhil Sharma Senior Vice President (Engineering) GIST Impact

Nikhila Natarajan is Senior Programme Manager for Media and Digital Content with ORF America. Her work focuses on the future of jobs current research in the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence digital innovation and strategy. Nikhila also tracks Americas political faultlines.

Dr Nilanjan Ghosh is Vice President – Development Studies at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) in India, and is also in charge of the Foundation’s Kolkata Centre.

His career trajectory in reverse chronological order includes roles such as Senior Fellow at ORF, Senior Vice President & Chief Economist at the Multi Commodity Exchange of India Limited, and faculty positions at TERI School of Advanced Studies. From 2015 to 2020, he advised WWF India in establishing their Ecological Economics practice.

His other roles also included Member of the Global Future Council on the Future of Nature and Security at the World Economic Forum (2023-24), Co-Chair of Task Force 3 on International Financial Architecture for Think20 under Brazil’s G20 Presidency (2024), Member of the Board of Country Representatives for the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE, 2024-25), and Member of the Research Advisory Committee for WWF India (2023-24).

Nilanjan was the President of the Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE, 2022-24) and the Director of the Think20 India Secretariat during India’s G20 Presidency in 2023. He was also a Member of the Expert Committee constituted by the Supreme Court of India in 2021, formulating the Net Present Value criteria for forest land diversion.

Nilanjan has taught at institutions including Linnaeus University (Sweden), the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, and Jadavpur University, and visited Uppsala University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Stanford University.

A natural resource economist with over two decades of experience, Nilanjan holds a Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. He has authored/ edited 15 books and monographs and has written over 100 peer-reviewed papers and several commentaries/ op-eds. His advisory work spans organisations like IUCN, FORMAS, UNCTAD-India, WWF-UK, IWMI-WLE, etc.

Nilanjan Gupta is a research fellow in the History Department of Jadavpur University. His research focus is on issues of mobility and the development of science and technology during the colonial period. He has recently concluded his M. Phil research at Jadavpur University.

Nilanjana Das is a Research Intern with the Observer Research Foundation in India.

Nilanthi Samaranayake is Director of the Strategy and Policy Analysis Program at CNA a non-profit research organisation in the Washington area. She studies non-traditional security issues including disaster relief and resilience. The views expressed are solely those of the author and not of any organisation with which she is affiliated.

Nilesh Bane was a research fellow at ORFs Mumbai Centre.

Ms. Nimisha Pal is a freelance consultant in the area of Traffic and Transport Planning.

Nirali Bakhla is a Research Associate at Bharti Institute of Public Policy at the Indian School of Business Hyderabad. She holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Economics from SRCC University of Delhi and IGIDR Mumbai respectively. She also pursed her M.Phil in Development Studies from IGIDR. Her research interests include food agricultural and natural resource economics and rural livelihoods.

Nirmal Ganguly is an economist economic administrator and development professional. He has worked with the Asian Development Bank in various capacities and with the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance Ministry of Commerce and Industry.

Nirmalya Choudhury has been a career researcher who has a Doctorate from Technical University Berlin post graduate diploma in Forest Maagement from IIFM Bhopal and a Masters in Economics from Calcutta University. In the past he has worked as an Associate Professor with the Centre for Water Polcy regulation and Governance in the Tata Institute of Social Sciences Tata Education and Development Trust Council on Energy Environment and Water Sir Ratan Tata Trust and the International Water Management Institute. In the recent years he has been working on multiple developmental challenges vulnerability and resilience of the people residing in the recurrent flood prone areas in Ganga-Brahmaputra basin.

Nisha Holla is Visiting Fellow at ORF where she writes on ideas and shifts at the intersection of technology economics and policy. She tracks the impact of technology on democratising access to socio-economic development the importance of building strategic technology moats and policy frameworks required to drive indigenous technology development in India.

As Research Fellow at 3one4 Capital, Nisha has co-produced several first-of-its-kind reports such as India Employment Report 2024, Karnataka Jobs Report 2022-23, Karnataka: A $1 Trillion GDP Vision, Human Capital Development of India, India’s Response to COVID-19, Maharashtra 2025 — Road to USD One Trillion, Karnataka’s Response to COVID-19, Uttar Pradesh 2030 — An Accelerated Economic Vision, and the Bengaluru Innovation Report 2019.

Nisha has worked with the Department of Planning, GoK, to publish valuable collaborations between government and industry experts such as the Economic Survey of Karnataka 2021-22 and $1 Trillion Economy: Karnataka’s Vision.

Nisha has co-authored numerous articles on human capital development in India, comparative studies of Indian states’ economic and demographic growth, multiple facets of India’s technology readiness, and India’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Her writings have appeared in The Financial Express, The Indian Express, The Sunday Guardian, Moneycontrol, cnbc, Times of India, Mint, Deccan Herald, and YourStory.

As Technology Fellow at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP), Nisha explores policy and economic strategies in scientific and technological development.

At Biomoneta Research, Nisha worked on designing technology for the prevention of the spread of infectious diseases. Nisha was earlier based in the San Francisco Bay Area working at the cutting edge of hardware product and process development.

Nisha is co-inventor of a US patent designed to optimise semiconductor processing workflows.

A chemical engineer by training, Nisha holds a Master’s of Science degree from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor’s of Engineering degree from RV College of Engineering.