S Irudaya Rajan is Chair of the International Institute of Migration and Development (IIMAD), Kerala, India and chair of the KNOMAD (the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development) thematic working group on internal migration and urbanisation, World Bank. He is one of the expert committee members to advise the Government of Kerala on Covid-19. Prior to this, he was a Professor at the Centre for Development Studies (CDS). Professor Rajan is the editor of two Routledge series - India Migration Report and South Asia Migration Report.

AKM Ahsan Ullah is Associate Professor of Geography, Environment and Development at the University of Brunei Darussalam (UBD). He has worked with various prestigious institutions such as the City University of Hong Kong, Dalhousie University in Canada, the American University in Cairo, Osnabruck University, Germany, and the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, among others. His research focuses on important global issues such as population migration, human rights, development, globalisation, and the environment. He has published 15 books, 60 articles in leading academic journals, and 40 book chapters.