Zacki Jabbar is a News Editor at The Island, a leading English language daily in Sri Lanka. He has also served as the Business Editor of the newspaper.

Zahid Javali was formerly City Editor of MiD DAY, a daily tabloid in Bangalore, India.

Robin Jeffrey is the Director of the Research School for Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University.

Pankaj Jha is an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi.

Wang Jianwei is the Eugene Katz Letters and Science Distinguished Professor of at the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. He is currently a visiting scholar at Center for American Studies, Fudan University in Shanghai.

Umar Juoro is Senior Fellow at the Habibie Center in Jakarta. He was formerly assistant to former Indonesian President B J Habibie from 1998-1999.