Professor Premilla D’Cruz completed her doctoral studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences as a UGC-JRF fellow and is currently Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad where she teaches micro-OB and workplace creativity. Premilla has been a visiting research fellow at the University at Strathclyde, the University of Portsmouth and the University of Amsterdam as well as a visiting lecturer at Cornell University.
 
Premilla’s research interests include workplace bullying, emotions in organizations, self and identity, ICTs and organizations and organizational control. Her current research projects focus on bystanders in workplace bullying, the impact of the financial recession on the IT and ITES sectors and legal process outsourcing.
 
In addition to several international publications and presentations, Premilla has recently authored Employee Identity in Indian Call Centres: The Notion of Professionalism (Sage 2009, with Ernesto Noronha) and Thinking Creatively at Work (Sage 2008). Apart from receiving the IIMA Class of 2006 Distinguished Young Researcher Award (with Ernesto Noronha) for her extensive research on Indian call centres in 2009, Premilla has been on the board of the International Association on Workplace Bullying and Harassment since 2008 and is currently its Secretary. 

Guy Standing is currently Professor of Economic Security at the University of Bath in the UK. He was previously Director of the Socio-Economic Security Programme of the International Labour Organisation, where he worked for 30 years. He has been involved in numerous research and advisory projects, in developed and developing countries and, in the early 1990s, in the “transition” countries of eastern Europe. He has written and edited books on labour economics, labour market policy, unemployment, labour market flexibility, structural adjustment policies and social protection policy.
 
Recent books include: The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (London and New York, Bloomsbury Academic, 2011); Social Income and Insecurity: A Study in Gujarat, with Jeemol Unni, Renana Jhabvala and Uma Rani (New Delhi, Routledge, 2010); Work after Globalization: Building Occupational Citizenship (Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2009) and Promoting Income Security as a Right: Europe and North America (London, Anthem Press, 2005). 
 
Guy was coordinating editor and main writer of the ILO’s Economic Security for a Better World, a global report issued in 2004. He is a founder member and co-president of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), an international non-governmental organisation that promotes a citizenship income for all. He is also currently involved in several unconditional cash transfer pilot schemes in India.