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Robert Hillenbrand FBA is a British art historian who specialises in Persian and Islamic art. He is an Honorary Professorial Fellow of the universities of Edinburgh and St Andrews. He was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge for 2008–09 and has held various visiting fellowships. He has also served on the Councils of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem , British Research in the Levant , and the British Institute of Persian Studies (Vice-President).

In 2018 during the conference of the Association of Iranian Studies at the University of California, Irvine, the Lifetime Achievement Award was awarded to Hillenbrand. In the same year he appeared in the documentary film Taq Kasra: Wonder of Architecture as a scholar of Sassanid Persia.

Rima Hooja is an archaeologist and historian of Rajasthan. Educated in Jaipur and at Cambridge University, from where she holds a PhD in archaeology, she is the author of several books, including History of Rajasthan. She is currently Consultant Director at the Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum City Palace Jaipur, Managing Trustee of the Jaipur Virasat Foundation; and Visiting Professor at Delhi's School of Planning & Architecture and Ahmedabad University. A former Member of India’s National Monuments Authority, and a 'Distinguished International Academician' of Minnesota University, she is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Dr Hooja has been Director of Minnesota University’s MSID India Program for 12 years and also Faculty Director of New York State Independent College Consortium for Study in India Programme.