Sidharth Mishra is a leading newspaper columnist and TV panelist of longstanding and presently working as Professor-Chairperson, Vivekananda School of Journalism & Mass Communication, IP University, New Delhi. He has been invited as a speaker by prestigious institutions in India and abroad including the Indian Military Academy, Delhi School of Economics, Indian Institute of Public Administration, Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Graduate School of Communications, National Taiwan University, Taipei and Smurfit Business School, UCD, Dublin. He studied at Prince of Wales Royal (now Rashtriya) Indian Military College, Dehradun and Kirori Mal College of Delhi University. He is also the founder of a think tank — Centre for Reforms, Development and Justice (CRD&J).