Tan Sri Dr Rebecca Sta. Maria, Executive Director, APEC Secretariat

Greg Poling, Senior Fellow and Director, Southeast Asia Program and Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Calvin Cheng, Senior Analyst, Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia

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

Chong Ja Ian, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore

Dr Johan Saravanamuttu, Professor of Political Science, Universiti Sains Malaysia

Richard McGregor, Senior Fellow, The Lowy Institute

Thomas Daniel, Senior Fellow, ISIS Malaysia