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Dr. P.M. Passah, Professor of economics (Rtd.) and former Chief Proctor of North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, is an eminent economist having more than 70 research papers to his credit. He attended more than 70m national and regional conferences, seminars, symposiums, etc. Formerly, member of the state Planning Board, Meghalaya; Meghalaya State Pollution Control Board and Meghalaya Education Advisory Committee, presently, he is member of Meghalaya Land Acquisition Advisory Committee. He was the President of the North Eastern economic Association and presently the president of Meghalaya economic Association. He is a life member of the Indian Economic Association; Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi, and several other national and regional organizations. He is now on Advocate of the bar Council of Assam, Meghalaya, etc. and the Chairman of the economic Cell, Bhartiya Janata party of Meghalaya . He has co-authored-Population, Poverty and Environment in North East India (2000), and Jaintia Hills (Home to a Meghalaya tribe)-Its Environment, land and People (2002).

B. Datta Ray (1924-) is the founder Secretary, North East Indian Council for Social Science research (NEICSSR), Shillong. His major contributions include: Shifting Cultivation in North East India (ed., 1976), social and Economic Profile of North East India (ed., 1978), Administrative History of North East India (1978), Agricultural in the Hills: A case Study of Meghalaya (ed., 1979), Emergence and the Role of Middle Class in North East India (ed., 1983), Tribal Occupational Mobility (1984), Crime Perspective in North east India (1986), North East India in 2000 AD (ed., 1987), Tribal Identity and tension in North east India (1989), Social and political Institutions of the Hill People of North east India (ed., 1990), Dynamics of Tribal Society (ed., 1993).