Prof. Madhav Das Nalapat is the Honorary Director of the Department of Geopolitics and International Relations, MAHE. He is also the UNESCO Chair for the Promotion of the Culture of Peace and Non-Violence at MAHE. He was appointed India’s first Professor of Geopolitics at the Department of Geopolitics and International Relations, MAHE. Prof. Nalapat is also the Vice-Chair of Manipal Advanced Research Group. Currently, he is the Editorial Director of ITV network (India) & The Sunday Guardian. He is an Executive Member of the Editors Guild of India, an Associate of the National Institute of Advanced Studies and an Associate Member of the United Services Institution. He has previously held editorial positions at Mathrubhumi and The Times of India. He writes extensively for national and international publications. He has authored over a dozen books, including Cold War 2.0: Illusion Versus Reality, 75 Years of Indian Foreign Policy: War, Peace and a World Realigned, and The Practice of Geopolitics. 

Prof. K. P. Vijayalakshmi is a Professor and the Head of the Department of Geopolitics and International Relations, MAHE. She has been a Professor of US Studies and the former Chairperson of the Centre for Canadian, US and Latin American Studies, School of International Studies, JNU, New Delhi. She currently serves as an Executive Council member of Manohar Parrikar Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi. She also serves as Honorary Adjunct Visiting faculty at the International Strategic Studies Programme, National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bangalore. She has also been a member of the editorial boards of several journals, including Africa Review. She has also been a member of the advisory board of a number of programmes both in India and abroad. She is a member of the International Studies Association. In recognition of her work, she has been awarded the Olive J. Reddick and Gilmour Award of the Indian Association of American Studies, Ford Foundation Faculty Fellowship, Senior Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Maryland, Salzburg Seminar Fellowship (thrice) and Fulbright-Nehru Visiting Faculty, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University. She has been a research grantee of several presidential libraries in the US to conduct primary research and a recipient of publication grants from ICSSR.