Professor Luca M. Olivieri holds a PhD from Freie Universität Berlin and is Associate Professor of Archaeology and Cultures of Gandhara and the Silk Roads at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. He has worked in Swat since 1987 and received Pakistan’s Sitara-i-Imtiaz in 2016.

Prof. Dr. Ghani-ur-Rahman is a renowned scholar in the field of Gandhara Art, holding a PhD from Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, Italy. He has been serving as the Director of the Taxila Institute of Asian Civilizations (TIAC) at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, since 2016.

Stefan Baums teaches Sanskrit, Prakrit, Pali and South Asian Buddhism at LMU Munich and leads the Buddhist Manuscripts from Gandhāra project at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. His research focuses on Gāndhārī manuscripts, Buddhist philology and epigraphy, and the beginnings of written Buddhist literature.