Sudhir Vadaketh, editor in chief, Jom Media

Brian Hioe, Co-Founding Editor, New Bloom Magazine

Sonny Swe, Founder, Frontier Myanmar

Dr Muhammad Mohan, President, Transparency International Malaysia

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

Professor Robert Shapiro, Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

Denys Mykhailiuk, Chargé d'Affaires, Ukrainian Embassy in Malaysia

Dr Greg Raymond, Senior Lecturer, Australian National University (ANU)

Associate Professor Dr Fernando Casal Bertoa, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham United Kingdom and member of the OSCE/ODIHR Core Group of Political Party Experts

Chong Ja Ian, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, NUS

H. E. Marko Ham, Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia to Malaysia

Dr Benjamin Loh, Senior Lecturer, School of Media and Communication, Taylor's UniversityDr Juita Mohamad, Economics and Business Unit Director, IDEAS Malaysia