Laveesh Bhandari is the Director and Chief Economist of Indicus Foundation. He has studied in Boston, worked for Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi and National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), Delhi. A well-known commentator on all facets of the economy, he has authored and co-authored numerous publications on socio-economic development, health, education, poverty, inequality, etc. His work on the performance of states and districts with Bibek Debroy and other co-authors is referred to widely. Sumita Kale is a financial and macro-economist. She works extensively on financial inclusion as well as tracking the Indian economy. She has an MPhil in Economics of Developing Countries from the University of Cambridge and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pune. Chandra Shekhar Mehra is an applied economist with interest and experience in research in the field of education and labour. He has contributed and co-authored reports for different agencies of the United Nations, the recent one has been the ‘Estimating the Number of Out of Children: India Case Study’, by UNESCO Institute of Statistics and UNICEF.