Prof Susan Bayly
(University of Cambridge)

Prof William Gould
(University of Leeds)

Prof Tim Harper
(University of Cambridge)

Dr Jieyu Liu
(SOAS, University of London)

Prof Huaichuan Rui
(Royal Holloway, University of London)

Prof Heonik Kwon
(University of Cambridge)

Prof Sergey Abashin
(Russian Academy of Sciences)

Prof Sunil Amrith
(Harvard University)

Prof Ingeborg Baldauf
(Humboldt University, Berlin)

Prof Ishita Banerjee-Dube
(El Colegio de México)

Prof Joshua Barker
(University of Toronto)

Prof Robert Crews
(Stanford University)

Prof Ulrike Freitag
(Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin)

Prof Nile Green
(UCLA)

Dr Geir Helgesen
(Nordic Institute of Asian Studies)

Prof Conrad Schetter
(Bonn University)

Prof Sivaramakrishnan
(University of Yale)

Prof Michael Hsiao
(Academic Sinica, Taiwan)

Prof Peter van der Veer
(Max Planck Institute)

Prof Mayfair Yang
(University of California, Santa Barbara)

Mr Michael Dwyer
(Hurst & Co.)

Mr Paul French
(Author - Unaffiliated)

Mr Fredrik Galtung
(Integrity Action)

Dr Kaveri Gill
(Oxford Policy Management)

Dr Srijana Mitra Das 
(Senior Editor, Editorial & Op-Ed Pages, The Indian Express)

Dr Davood Moradian
(General Director, Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies)

Mr Ahmed Rashid
(The Financial Times/Al Jazeera)

Prof Michael Semple
(Queen’s University, Belfast)

Mr Michael Thomas
(Foreign & Commonwealth Office)