Jerry Wind
Yoram (Jerry) Wind joined the Wharton School in 1967 after earning his doctorate from Stanford University and has served as Lauder Professor Emeritus and Professor of Marketing since 2017. Across nearly six decades at Wharton, he founded the SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management and helped launch transformative initiatives including the Wharton Executive MBA, the Lauder Institute, Wharton Fellows, Wharton School Publishing, and major research programs on marketing strategy and the future of advertising.
In recent years, Professor Wind has focused on the intersection of creativity, strategy, and artificial intelligence. His latest book, Creativity in the Age of AI: Toolkits for the Modern Mind (2025), advances a practical framework for innovation in an AI-driven world, complemented by a global Coursera course on creativity. He recently edited a special issue of Marketing Business Review on AI for customer engagement and is developing, with Quant AI, an AI-empowered educational paradigm.
Wind is a co-founder of the Reimagine Education Global Competition and Conference and recipient of its 2024 Lifetime Impact Award. A 2017 inductee into the Marketing Hall of Fame and 2023 International Marketing Trends Award recipient (Paris), he continues to advise organizations worldwide and testify in intellectual property cases.
Mukul Pandya
Mukul is an Associate Fellow at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School and a consulting editor of Oxford Business Review.
He is the founding former editor-in-chief and executive director of Knowledge@Wharton (K@W), the web-based journal of research and business analysis published by the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He edited and managed K@W for more than 22 years until his retirement in 2020. In 2020-21. He was a Senior Fellow at the research centres Wharton AI for Business and Wharton Customer Analytics.
Mukul has won four awards for investigative journalism and has more than 40 years of experience as a writer and editor. His articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Economist, Time magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer and other publications.
He co-authored Lasting Leadership, Knowledge@Wharton on building corporate value and has written, co-authored or edited three other books. In 2020 he edited an award-winning book, Transformation in Times of Crisis, by Nitin Rakesh and Jerry Wind.
Mukul has a master’s degree in economics from the University of Bombay.
Deborah Yao
Deborah Yao is the editor-in-chief of The AI Innovator, a premier online publication dedicated to chronicling the latest advances in enterprise AI. A Stanford graduate, she has worked at Amazon, the Wharton School and the Associated Press. A veteran financial journalist, she has received awards for her reporting. She also co-founded a gaming startup in New York. She lives in Austin, Texas.