In addition to the members of the Research and Development Advisory Committee, researchers from various world-class academic institutions visit CIFD in order to participate in its research and product development activities. This provides CIFD with additional impetus for its work. So far, the following researchers have been participating in the Centre's research activities.

• Santosh Anagol, Assistant Professor of Business and Public Policy, University of Pennsylvania
• Anandi Mani, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Warwick
• Sandip Sukhtankar, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Dartmouth College
• Aravind Moorthy, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, University of California
• Supreet Kaur, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, Harvard University
• Piyush Tantia, Research Director, Financial Design, Ideas42