V. Sridhar is Professor at the Centre for IT and Public Policy at the International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore, India. He is the author of three previously published books: The Telecom Revolution in India: Technology, Regulation and Policy (2012), The Dynamics of Spectrum Management: Legacy, Technology, and Economics (2014), and Emerging ICT Policies and Regulations: Roadmap to Digital Economies (2019). Dr Sridhar has taught at many Institutions in the USA, Finland, New Zealand, and India. He has received funding from different sources, both national and international for his research projects. He has also published more than 300 articles on telecom regulation in popular newspapers and magazines. He was a visiting scholar at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California recently. Dr Sridhar has been a member of Government of India committees on Telecom and IT and has published many peer-reviewed articles in telecom and information systems journals. Dr Sridhar has a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, USA. His work can be accessed at: http://www.vsridhar.info