Journalist Dilip Padgaonkar, bureaucrat MM Ansari and academician Radha Kumar will begin work soon.

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Jay Ritter, another respected academician, is best known for his work on IPOs.

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He actually tried to persuade policemen to bring a prosecution against Sir Stanley Spencer, a fellow academician, under Britain's obscenity laws.

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His first big task was to fill in a hole torn through a large landscape by the 19th century Royal Academician Thomas Sidney Cooper.

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Academician and professor at several Arab, European and American universities.

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Between them: Palamar Natalya, Director of the Laboratory of Biochemical protection and restoration of documents of Archive of the Academy of Sciences, Petrova Natalya, Head of restoration department in IEGRC after Academician I.

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Thanks to the OpEd Project, my voice will begin to be heard not only as an academician but also as a thought leader with a point of view that can make a difference in the world.

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My favorite entrepreneur-turned-academician, Jeff Sandefer, one of the founders of the Austin Texas based Acton MBA that offers a degree in entrepreneurship, actually teaches students how to bargain, cut deals, make cold calls, and the like.

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Four years ago, when then presidential candidate Barack Obama picked Delaware senator Joe Biden as his running mate, it seemed to be a case of an intellectual, analytical senator, lawyer, and academician with lots of gravitas wanting a genial, unrehearsed, speak-your-mind kind of political partner to balance the scale.

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