Pramit Pal Chaudhuri is Bernard Schwartz Fellow at the Asia Society, New York and a Senior Correspondent of the Hindustan Times, a major Indian daily.

Arvind Panagariya is Professor of Economics at Columbia University.

Nischal Pandey was Executive Director of the Kathmandu based Institute of Foreign Affairs, and until recently, Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies.

Lam Peng Er is a Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. He was invited as an election observer for the 2008 Taiwan Presidential Election.

Thitinan Pongsudhirak is Director of the Institute of Security and International Studies, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. 

Vladimir Putin is the President of the Russian Federation.