Dr. Rubina Pradhan is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Research in Social Sciences and Education (CeRSSE), JAIN (Deemed-to-be University), Bangalore. She is engaged in teaching Postgraduate courses in Public Policy and Administration and Research methodology to PhD Scholars. She is also a webinar coordinator at the centre.

She was awarded a PhD degree from the Centre for International Politics, Organisation and Disarmament, JNU, New Delhi. As part of her PhD thesis, she has explored the theory of partnership of International Organisations in conflict resolution taking Libya as the test case. She has published in areas of International Organizations, Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention, Climate Change, and Education in various peer-reviewed journals. Her upcoming publication is in the area of policy approaches to women empowerment in the Global South to be published by Springer.

Dr. Priyanca Mathur, is currently Head and Associate Professor at the Centre for Research in Social Sciences and Education (CERSSE) Jain University in Bangalore. Previously she was Assistant Professor and P.G. Coordinator at the Master’s Department of Political Science, St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous), Bengaluru. A gold-medallist in Political Science from Jadavpur University, Calcutta, she gained her Master’s, M.Phil and Ph.D degrees at the Centre for Political Studies and the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. A Commonwealth Scholarship also additionally enabled her to study for an M.Sc in Forced Migration Studies at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, U.K. She is a founding Member of the Asia-Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN), a member of Editorial Board of Refugee Law Reader, Hungary, and of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM). An international trainer with UNWomen and the Forum of Federations (FoF), Canada, she has devised modules for FoF on Gender and Decentralisation and conducted Gender and Federalism workshops, as well as 'Training of Trainers’ (ToT) Workshops on Gender for parliamentarians and civil society actors in Myanmar and Thailand. She has published numerous book chapters and articles in journals, op-ed articles in the Deccan Herald, and conducted Gender Sensitisation Workshops for Universities. Being a recipient of the Schomburg Fellowship, Dr. Mathur has also taught at Ramapo College, Mahwah, New Jersey, U.S.A. She has recently co-authored an edited volume with Dr A Ravindra titled ‘Discovering New India: Multiculturalism, Pluralism, Harmony’ (Jain University Press, 2022). Her areas of research and publications are international politics, refugee and forced migration studies, gender studies, public policy and governance. She is also guiding Ph. Scholars in the same.