Arlo Griffiths, Ph.D. (2004), Leiden University, is Professor of Southeast Asian History at the École française d'Extrême-Orient. His work on the social and religious past of South and Southeast Asia focuses on the scholarly documentation and editing of primary sources in the form of manuscripts and inscriptions, in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and other languages.
Vincent Tournier, Ph.D. (2012), École pratique des Hautes Études (Paris), is Professor of Classical Indology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He has published on the history of Buddhist communities, doctrines, and scriptures across the Indian subcontinent, and the epigraphy of the Deccan.
Akira Shimada, Ph.D. (2006), University of London, is Professor of History at the State University of New York at New Paltz. He has published on the history of early Buddhist art and architecture in Andhra, including Early Buddhist Architecture in Context: The Great Stupa at Amaravati (ca. 300 BCE-300 CE), Brill, 2013.