Datuk Zainalabidin Mohamed, Singer

Dr Oh Ei Sun, Principal Adviser, Pacific Research Centre

Kishore Mahbubani, Author, Living the Asian Century

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

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

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

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

Aaron Denison, Doctoral Candidate, Hiroshima University

Rajes Paul, Sports Journalist, The Star

Sivaranjani Manickam, Secretary-General, Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM)

Barathi Selvam, Senior Research Officer, Women's Aid Organisation

Muslim Imran, Founding Director, Asia Middle East Center for Research & Dialogue (AMEC)

Wathshlah Naidu, Executive Director, Centre for Independent Journalism