Dr Vinod Balasubramaniam, Senior Lecturer and Co-Lead, Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine & Health Sciences

Professor Rouben Azizian, Director, Centre for Defence and Security Studies, Massey University New Zealand

Dr Helena Varkkey, Associate Professor, Department of International and Strategic Studies, Universiti Malaya

Professor Peter McPhee, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Melbourne

Sonny Lo, political commentator

Dr Chulanee Attanayake, Research Fellow, Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), National University of Singapore

Geetha Ranganathan, Media Analyst, Bloomberg Intelligence

Dr James Dorsey, Senior Fellow, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore

Dr Anatoliy Gruzd, Director of Research, Ryerson University Social Media Lab

Alexey Muraviev, Associate Professor of National Security and Strategic Studies, Curtin University

Dr Adrian Ang, Research Fellow in the US Program, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

Mohsin Abdullah, Columnist

Bernard Aw, APAC Economist, Coface

Jonathan Berkshire Miller, Senior Fellow, Japan Institute of International Affairs

Datuk Dr Shahruddin Md Salleh, Johor Chief, Pejuang