Dr Sharifah Munirah Alatas, Senior Lecturer, School of History, Politics and Strategic Studies, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Robert Shapiro, Professor of Government, Columbia University

Vishnu Varathan, Head of Economics & Strategy, Mizuho Bank

Dr Bridget Welsh, Honorary Research Associate, Malaysia's Asia Research Institute, University of Nottingham

Dr Geoffrey Williams, Economist, Malaysia University of Science and Technology

Bernard Aw, Economist for Asia Pacific, Coface

Walter Todd, President and Chief Investment Officer, Greenwood Capital

Ibrahim Suffian, Programme Director, Merdeka Center

Azrul Mohd Khalib, CEO, Galen Centre for Health & Social Policy

Clara Ferreira Marques, Columnist, Bloomberg Opinion

Joe Quinlan, Chief Market Strategist, US Trust-BOA Private Wealth Management

Hunter Marston, Researcher, Australian National University

Adib Zalkapli, Director, BowerGroup Asia

Dr Azmi Hassan, Senior Research Fellow, Nusantara Academy for Strategic Research