Dr Shankaran Nambiar, Fellow, Institut Masa Depan Malaysia

Zaid Malek, Director, Lawyers For Liberty

Michael Montesano, Associate Senior Fellow, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute

William Pesek, Columnist, Nikkei Asia

Dato' Ambiga Sreenevasan, former President, Malaysian Bar

Kishore Mahbubani, Author, Living the Asian Century

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

James Gomez, Director, Asia Centre

Bradley Freeman, Professor of Digital Media, School of Arts, Sunway University

Dr Ali Riaz, President, American Institute of Bangladesh Studies

Dr Niaz Asadullah, Professorial fellow, North South University in Bangladesh

Stephen Chiu, Chief Asia FX and Rates Strategist, Bloomberg Intelligence

Dr Geoffrey Williams, Economist

Julia Roknifard, Assistant Professor, School of Politics, History and International Relations, University of Nottingham Malaysia

Sanjay Mathur, Chief Economist for Southeast Asia and India, ANZ Bank