Dr Adrian Ang, Research Fellow and Coordinator of the US Programme, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

Dr Darren Lim, Senior Lecturer, ANU College Of Arts And Social Sciences

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

Hannah Pearson, Founder, Pear Anderson | Gary Bowerman, Director, Check-In Asia

H. E. Andrey Rudenko, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation

Professor Dwight H. Perkins, Harold Hitchings Burbank Research Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University

Ong Kian Ming, Former Deputy Minister, International Trade and Industry

Dato' Nathan K Suppiah, Vice President, Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers

Dr Ross Tapsell, Senior Lecturer, Australian National University

Dr Rais Hussin, CEO, MRANTI

Datuk Shamsuddin Bardan, Executive Director, Malaysian Employers Federation

Esther Teo, Member, Family Frontiers

Adrian Pereira, Executive Director, North South Initiative

Collins Chong, foreign affairs and security analyst with the Centre for Civilisational Dialogue at University Malaya

Derick Becker, Assistant Professor, School of Politics, History and International Relations, University of Nottingham Malaysia

Dr Juita Mohamad, Director of Research & Director of Economics and Business Unit, Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS) | Chin Chee Seong, National Secretary General, SME Association of Malaysia