Mon. May 6th, 2024
Dr. Renato Galvão Flôres Junior
Dr. Renato Galvao Flores Junior, professor at the Graduate School of Economics
Mr. Jack Devine
Jack Devine, President, The Arkin Group
General Mahmud Ali Durrani
General Mahmud Ali Durrani, former Pakistan’s Ambassador to the US and National Security Adviser to the Prime Minister
Mr. Salman Khurshid
Salman Khurshid, former External Affairs Minister of India
Mr. Bernd Debusmann
Mr. Bernd Debusmann, veteran foreign correspondent with Reuters
Elizabeth A Ohene
Elizabeth A Ohene, former Minister of State for Tertiary Education, former Senior Producer on BBCs World Service
Dr. Dewi Fortuna Anwar
Dr. Dewi Fortuna Anwar, an academician at the Indonesian Academy of Sciences, is Professor at the Research Center for Politics-National Research and Innovation Agency. She is Chair of the Board of Directors. Habibie Center, and was Deputy Secretary to the Vice President of Indonesia. She was Distinguished Visiting Professor at both S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore and at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, US
Dr. Roy
Associate Professor (Dr.) Roy Anthony Rogers is Deputy Executive Director, Asia-Europe Institute (AEI), Universiti Malaya
Mr. Geoff Heriot
Dr. Geoff Heriot of the Australian Institute of International Affairs. Tasmania, one of Australia's oldest think tanks, is a distinguished former foreign correspondent and executive with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). He is an author and authority on media and governance. Dr. Heriot has extensive international experience as adviser to media organisations in Asia, the Pacific, South Africa and the Middle East.
Tan Sri Datuk Ong Tee Keat
Tan Sri Datuk Ong Tee Keat (knighted with Malaysia's royal awards of Tan Sri and Datuk) is Chair, Centre for New Inclusive Asia. Trained as a mechanical engineer, he now focuses on geopolitics and Chinese language creative writing. In 25 years of involvement in Malaysian federal politics, he held government portfolios as Minister, Deputy Minister and Deputy Speaker of Dewan Rakyat (Lower House of Parliament). He has represented Southeast Asia on the Executive Council of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association.
Dr. Veena Jha
Dr. Veena Jha, an eminent economist, advises governments and international bodies on trade and development. An Associate of the International Institute for Sustainable Development, she has authored books and taught at universities of Oxford. Delhi and Warwick. She spent 15 years at the UN Conference on Trade and Development, and also worked with the EU and the UN Environment Programme
Dr. Xu Jianchu
Dr. Xu Jianchu is an ethnobotanist working on land systems in social-ecological systems. He is Principal Scientist. World Agroforestry Center, and Distinguished Professor. Kunming Institute of Botany, of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Listed in the Reuters world's top 1,000 climate scientists, Dr. Xu coordinates the Mountain Futures Programme. a global initiative for knowledge innovations for smallholders in mountain regions worldwide.
Dr. Christopher Snedden
Dr. Christopher Snedden, an academic, author and politico-strategic analyst who specialises in South Asia and the Indo-Pacific Region
Dr. Rashed Uz Zaman
Dr. Rashed Uz Zaman, from the Department of International Relations, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, has a doctorate in Strategic Studies from University of Reading, UK, an Alexander von Humboldt post-doctoral research fellow at University of Erfurt, Germany. and Fulbright Visiting Professor in the Department of Political Science at Vanderbilt University, US. He writes extensively on Bangladesh in UN peacekeeping missions.