A. Mathew is Fellow at National University of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi. He also served on the faculty of National Institute of Adult Education. He worked with UNDP and UNESCO for a year as Resource Person and Moderator of Education Community and served as Consultant to UNESCO for many projects and studies on literacy and adult education. He did his M.Phil., and Ph.D. in Education from Jawaharlal Nehru University. His areas of interest, work, research and publications include history and policy dimensions of education and the literacy movement. He conducted detailed study of the literacy movement in at least a dozen districts in different states, some of which were published in Leading the Way: New Initiatives in Adult Education, edited with Vandana Jena, former DG (NLM).
Jandhyala B G Tilak is Professor at the National University of Educational Planning and Administration. Doctorate from the Delhi School of Economics, Tilak taught in the University of Delhi and in the Indian Institute of Education, and as a Visiting Professor University of Virginia, Hiroshima University, and Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, besides working on the research staff of the World Bank. Recipient of Swami Pranavananda Saraswati award of the UGC and Dr Malcolm Adiseshiah award, Dr Tilak has published extensively in the area of education and development, including a dozen books and more than 250 research papers. Dr Tilak was the President of the Comparative Education Society of India. He is also the Editor of the Journal of Educational Planning and Administration.