Rajat M. Nag, Distinguished Fellow, Emerging Markets Forum, Harinder S. Kohli, Founding Director and Chief Executive, Emerging Markets Forum Rajat M. Nag is concurrently a Distinguished Fellow at the Emerging Markets Forum, Washington, D.C., and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the National Council of Applied Economic Research, Delhi. Mr. Nag has been the Managing Director General of the Asian Development Bank during 2006-2013.

He holds degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, the University of Saskatchewan, and the London School of Economics. Harinder S. Kohli is the Founding Director and Chief Executive of Emerging Markets Forum, a not-for-profit global think tank as well as the Founding Director, President, CEO, and the largest shareholder of Centennial Group International, both based in Washington, D.C. He has written extensively on the emergence of Asia, Latin America, Africa, and other emerging market economies, and published sixteen books. Some of these books are: The World in 2050: Striving for a Just, Prosperous, and Harmonious Global Community; China's Belt and Road Initiative: Potential Transformation of Central Asia and the South Caucasus; and Africa 2050: A New Strategy.