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

William Pesek, Columnist, Nikkei Asia

Wendy Schiller, Professor of Political Science, Brown University

Regidor Esguerra, Registered Nurse, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

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

Tai Zee Kin, Digital Political Communications Consultant

Dr Firdausi Suffian, political economist

Walid Jumblatt Abdullah, assistant professor, School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Mrs Fadhlina Sidek, Minister, Ministry of Education

Jeremy Lim, Secretary, Imagined Malaysia

Dr. Ahmad Rizky M. Umar, Sessional Lecturer, School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland