Thitinan Pongsudhirak

Professor, Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Political Science

Philip Cunningham

Independent Scholar

Matteo Giovannini

Senior Finance Manager at Industrial and Commercial Bank of China

Warwick Powell

Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology

Lucio Blanco Pitlo III

President of Philippine Association for Chinese Studies, and Research Fellow at Asia-Pacific Pathways to Progress Foundation

Zhu Zhaoyi

Executive Director of the Institute of Middle East Studies, Peking University HSBC Business School.

Bian Qingzu

Research Fellow, China Foundation for International Studies

Wang Youming

Senior Research Fellow of BRICS Economic Think Tank, Tsinghua University

Jia Qingguo

Director and Professor, Institute for Global Cooperation and Understanding, Peking University

David Shambaugh

Gaston Sigur Professor of Asian Studies, Political Science, and International Relations; Director of China Policy Program, George Washington University

Fan Gaoyue

Guest Professor at Sichuan University, Former Chief Specialist at PLA Academy of Military Science

He Weiwen

Senior Fellow, Center for China and Globalization, CCG

Nong Hong

Executive Director, Institute for China-America Studies; Senior Fellow, Beijing Club for International Dialogue

Sebastian Contin Trillo-Figueroa

Geopolitics Analyst in EU-Asia Relations and AsiaGlobal Fellow, The University of Hong Kong

Shang-Jin Wei

Professor, Finance and Economics at Columbia University

Zhao Minghao

Professor, Institute of International Studies at Fudan University, and China Forum Expert

Sajjad Ashraf

Former Adjunct Professor, National University of Singapore

Eka Khorbaladze

Research Associate, Ng Teng Fong · Sino Group Belt and Road Research Institute

Aaron Glasserman

Postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Study of Contemporary China at the University of Pennsylvania

Christopher A. McNally

Professor of Political Economy, Chaminade University

Stephen Roach

Senior Fellow, Yale University

Nicu Popescu, Fredrik Wesslau

Richard Javad Heydarian

Professorial Chairholder in Geopolitics, Polytechnic University of the Philippines

Mallie Prytherch

Manager of Research Affairs, Centre on Contemporary China and the World, University of Hong Kong

Zahid Anwar

Pro-Vice-President at the University of Peshawar, Pakistan

Pedro Abramovay

Vice President of Programs at the Open Society Foundations, Former Brazilian Secretary of Justice