Dr. Andrew Scobell

Distinguished Fellow, United States Institute of Peace; Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Washington, DC, USA

Lt. Gen. S L Narasimhan

Former Director General, Centre for Contemporary China Studies; Adjunct Distinguished Fellow, Gateway House, India

Dr. Shino Watanabe

Professor, Faculty of Global Studies, Sophia University, Japan

Dr. Jagannath Panda

Head, Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, Institute for Security and Development Policy, Sweden; and Professor, University of Warsaw, Poland

Dr. Andrew Chubb

Senior Lecturer in Chinese Politics and International Relations, Lancaster University, England

Dr. Yu Hong

Senior Research Fellow, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore

Dr. Sundaram Rajasimman

Professor, Sichuan International Studies University, China

Dr. Yanitha Meena Louis

Analyst, Institute of Strategic and International Studies, Malaysia

Dr. Stanly Johny

International Affairs Editor, The Hindu, India

Dr. Bali Deepak

Professor, Chinese Studies at the Centre for Chinese and Southeast Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

Dr. Sriparna Pathak

Professor of China Studies, and the founding Director of the Centre for Northeast Asian Studies, O.P. Jindal Global University, India

Dr. Srikanth Kondapalli

Professor in Chinese Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

Mr. Rahul Karan Reddy

Senior Research Associate, Organisation for Research on China and Asia, India

Mr. Ratish Mehta

Senior Research Associate, Organisation for Research on China and Asia, India

Dr. Bhagya Senaratne

Director of Education, Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies, Sri Lanka

Dr. Nisha Taneja

Professor and Lead for Trade, Investment and External Relations (TIER), Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), New Delhi, India

Dr. Zheng Anguang

Professor and Director, Institute of International Studies, Nanjing University, China

Amb. Ruchira Kamboj

Former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations in New York, former Ambassador of India to Bhutan, former High Commissioner to South Africa and Lesotho, former Permanent Representative / Ambassador of India to UNESCO, Paris.

Dr. Jacqueline Zhenru Lin

Research Assistant Professor at the Centre for China Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Mr. Abhijit Singh

Retired naval officer and former Head, Maritime Policy Initiative, ORF, New Delhi

Ms. Neha Mishra

Associate Fellow at Centre for Aerospace Power and Strategic Studies (CAPSS), New Delhi

Dr. Medha Bisht

Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, South Asian University, New Delhi

Prof. Manoranjan Mohanty

Distinguished Professor, Council for Social Development, New Delhi

Dr. Tilak Jha

Associate Professor, Times School of Media, Bennett University, Delhi NCR

Amb. Ujal Singh Bhatia

Former Ambassador of India to the WTO and Former Chairman of the WTO's Appellate Body

Dr. Christian Schultheiss

Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Germany

Cmde. Anil Jai Singh

Senior Vice President, Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems India, and Vice President and Head-Delhi branch, Indian Maritime Foundation

Ms. Shikha Aggarwal

Former Visiting Fellow, National Chengchi University, Taiwan

Dr. Jennifer Staats

Senior Political Scientist and Associate Director of the China Research Center, RAND Corporation, U.S.

Mr. Kalpit Mankikar

Fellow, Strategic Studies Programme, Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi

Dr. Tara Kartha

Director (Research &Academics) at the Centre for Land Warfare Studies, New Delhi