Professor Donald Leslie Baker, Asian Studies Department , University of British Columbia

Brian Hioe, Co-Founding Editor, New Bloom Magazine

Ariff Adi Putera, Research Officer, Research Associate, Institute for Development Studies (Sabah)

Ir Professor Dato' Dr Ewe Hong Tat, President , UTAR

Wendy Schiller, Professor of Political Science, Brown University

Tan Sri Datuk Dr Rebecca Fatima Sta Maria, Director of IDEAS

Kean Wong , journalist, editor, and associate, Australian National University Malaysia Institute

Bryan DeAngelis , Partner and Head of Washington Office, The Penta Group

Professor Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Economist

Yin Shao Loong, Deputy Director of Research, Khazanah Research Institute

Erin Cook, Journalist for Southeast Asian Affairs

Edmund Terence Gomez, Author, Misgovernance: Grand Corruption in Malaysia

John Zogby, Founder, John Zogby Strategies

Professor Wendy Schiller, Professor of Political Science, Brown University

Dr Adrian Ang, Research Fellow, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

Dr Ho Ying Chan, Assistant Professor, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus