Tim Mulholland, President, TJM Limited, Chicago 

Yun Liu, ASEAN economist, HSBC

Ang Beng Kuan, Head of Investments, Hong Leong Islamic Asset Management

Dr Lee Hwok-Aun, Senior Fellow, Malaysian Studies Programme, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute

Dr Tara Beteille, Lead Economist & Program Leader (Human Development), World Bank

Associate Professor Dr Ramesh Nair, Immediate Past President, Malaysian English Language Teaching Association | Dr Lee Su Kim, Author and Former Associate Professor, English Language Studies, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Aziff Azuddin, political researcher

Dr Darren Lim, Senior Lecturer, ANU College Of Arts And Social Sciences

Dr Kelvin Yii, MP, Bandar Kuching

Stephen Chiu, Chief Asia FX and Rates Strategist , Bloomberg Intelligence

Dr Pradeep Taneja, Senior Lecturer in Asian Studies, University of Melbourne

Kevin Zhang, public policy researcher | Calvin Cheng, public policy researcher

Yin Shao Loong, Deputy Director of Research, Khazanah Research Institute | Pieter E. Stek, Postdoctoral Scholar, Asia Business School

H. E. Andrey Rudenko, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation

Professor Dwight H. Perkins, Harold Hitchings Burbank Research Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University