Sharon Seah, Senior Fellow and Coordinator, ASEAN Studies Centre at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute

Bunn Nagara, Director and Senior Fellow, BRI Caucus for Asia-Pacific & Honorary Fellow, Perak Academy

H. E. Danielle Heinecke, Austalia's High Commissioner to Malaysia

Dr Rahul Mishra, Director, Centre of ASEAN Regionalism Universiti Malaya (CARUM), AEI, Universiti Malaya

Satoru Yamadera, Advisor at Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department, Asian Development Bank

Elina Noor, Director of Political-Security Affairs, Asia Society Policy Institute

Ben Bland, Director of the Southeast Asia Programme, Lowy InstituteTan Sri Munir Majid, Chairman, CIMB ASEAN Research Institute (CARI)