Gurmeet Kanwal is the Director of the Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS), a New Delhi based think-tank.

Ooi Kee Beng is a Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore. He is the author of, The Reluctant Politician: Tun Dr Ismail and his Time (ISEAS, 2006).

K Kesavapany is the Director of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. He was unanimously chosen as the first Chairman of the WTO Council in 1995. 

Nazery Khalid is a Senior Research Fellow at the Maritime Institute of Malaysia.

Khriezo Yhome is an Associate Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) in New Delhi, India.

Phar Kim Beng is a consultant to Waseda University in Japan on Southeast Asian matters.

Chin Kin Wah is Deputy Director of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore. 

P.R. Kumaraswamy is Associate Professor of International Studies at the Centre for West Asian and African Studies (CWAAS), Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India.