Dato' Ambiga Sreenevasan, former President, Malaysian Bar

Maha Balakrishnan, Parliamentary Researcher, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Sunway University

Aira Azhari, Senior Manager, IDEAS

Kishore Mahbubani, Author, Living the Asian Century

Associate Professor Dr Sabariah Mohamed Salleh, Head of Programme, Centre for Research in Media and Communication, UKM

Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrández, Lecturer, Departments of Anthropology & Latin American Studies, The University of Sydney

Datuk Professor Dr Mohd Faiz Abdullah, Chairman, ISIS Malaysia

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

Dr James Dorsey, Senior Fellow, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

James Gomez, Director, Asia Centre

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

Dr Termsak Chalermpalanupap, Visiting Fellow, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute

Radzi Razak, Spokesperson, Gerakan Media Merdeka (GERAMM)

Peter Beattie, Political Economist, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)