Rohit Prasad is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon, India. He is a PhD in Economic Theory from SUNY Stony Brook, USA. After his PhD, he worked in the software industry in USA and India, including in senior management positions, before joining MDI Gurgaon. He has served on a Reserve Bank of India committee on the comprehensive review of workings of bankruptcy ecosystem; on a Government of India's Department of Telecommunications committee to make recommendations on spectrum allocation and pricing in India; and on two Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) expert panels to study the value of spectrum. His research interests include the economics of ICT, the markets for distressed debt, and sustainable development. His papers have been published at leading journals including BE Journal of Theoretical Economics, Economic and Political Weekly. His column 'Game Sutra', a game theoretic exploration of world events, appeared every fortnight in the Mint for about three years. His book 'The Dynamics of Spectrum Management' co-authored with Dr.

V. Sridhar was published in 2014. He is the author of two popular books on entrepreneurship -- 'Start-up Sutra' (2016) and 'Blood Red River' (2016) -- that examine the contours of development conflict in India. His most recent book 'The Last Dance of Rationality - Making Sense of an Unraveling World Order' was published in 2023. He is also the author of 'Game Sutra- Rescuing Game Theory from Game Theorists' (2019), a collection of essays published on current affairs from a game theoretic perspective. Of this book, Nobel Prize winner Prof. Robert Aumann wrote "Entertaining, informative and fresh, it is strongly recommended to anyone who is interested in discovering how human interaction works.".