Dr. Jagannath Panda

Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs (SCSA-IPA) at the Institute for Security & Development Policy, Sweden

Mr. Claude Arpi

Distinguished Fellow, Centre of Excellence for Himalayan Studies, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence (Delhi)

Amb. Shyam Saran

Former Foreign Secretary of India; former Chairman of National Security Advisory Board (NSAB) and current President of India International Centre (IIC)

Amb. Ashok Kantha

Former Ambassador of India to China

Dr. B. R. Deepak

Professor, Chinese and China Studies, Centre of Chinese and Southeast Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Dr. Anuradha Chenoy

Former Dean at School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Lt Gen Praveen Bakshi

Former Eastern Army Commander & Distinguished Fellow, United Services Institution of India

Mr. Jayadeva Ranade

President of the Centre for China Analysis and Strategy (CCAS) and Member of the National Security Advisory Board

Dr. Aravind Yelery

Associate Professor at the Centre for East Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Dr. Manpreet Sethi

Distinguished Fellow, Center for Air Power Studies and Senior Research Advisor, APLN

Dr. Shinji Yamaguchi

Senior Research Fellow, Regional Studies Department, National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS), Ministry of Defense, Japan

Cmd. C. Uday Bhaskar

Director of the Society for Policy Studies (SPS)

Dr. Swaran Singh

Professor for Diplomacy and Disarmament at Centre for International Politics, Organization and Disarmament (CIPOD), School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Amb. Smita Purushottam

India's former Ambassador to Venezuela, Switzerland and Founder of Science, Indigenous Technology and Advanced Research Accelerator (SITARA)

Dr. Hemant Adlakha

Associate Professor, Centre for Chinese and South East Asian Studies, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

Air Marshal M Matheswaran

Founder Chairman and President of The Peninsula Foundation (TPF)

Dr. Ritu Agarwal

Associate Professor at Centre for East Asian studies, School of International Studies, at Jawaharlal Nehru University

Dr. Sriparna Pathak

Associate Professor and the Director of the Centre for Northeast Asian Studies, School of International Affairs, O.P. Jindal Global University

Mr. Sanjay Pulipaka

Chairperson of the Politeia Research Foundation

Air Marshal Anil Chopra

Director General of Centre for Air Power Studies (CAPS)

Capt. Kamlesh Agnihotri

Senior Fellow at the National Maritime Foundation (NMF)

Dr. Rupa Chanda

Director of the Trade, Investment and Innovation Division, UNESCAP

Mr. Neil Thomas

Fellow for Chinese Politics at Asia Society Policy Institute's Center for China Analysis

Dr. Renu Modi

Former Director of the Centre for African Studies, University of Mumbai

Dr. Madhu Bhalla

Former Professor and Head of the Department of East Asian Studies, Delhi University

Prof. Hideshi Tokuchi

President, Research Institute for Peace and Security (RIPS)

Ms. Lydia Powell

Distinguished Fellow, Observer Research Foundation

Amb. Ujal Singh Bhatia

India's Former Permanent Representative to the WTO

Dr. Li Nan

Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore

Dr. Amrita Jash

Assistant Professor at the Department of Geopolitics and International Relations, Manipal Academy of Higher Education

Dr. Jabin Jacob

Associate Professor, Department of International Relations and Governance Studies & Director, Centre of Excellence for Himalayan Studies, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, Delhi NCR

Dr. Rajiv Ranjan

Faculty Member at Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi

Mr. Nitin Gokhale

Founder, StratNewsGlobal and Bharat Shakti

Dr. D. Sunitha Raju

Professor of Economics and Chairperson (Research), Indian Institute of Foreign Trade

Dr. Bhim Subba

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Hyderabad

Dr. S. P. Sharma

Chief Economist and Deputy Secretary General, PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, India

Dr. Swasti Rao

Associate Fellow at the Europe and Eurasia Center, Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Ms. Namrata Hasija

Research Fellow, Centre for China Analysis and Strategy, New Delhi

Mr. Kabir Taneja

Fellow with the Strategic Studies program at the Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi

Mr. Lucas Myers

Senior Associate for Southeast Asia at the Asia Program, Wilson Center, Washington DC

Dr. T. G. Suresh

Associate Professor, Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

Mr. Konark Bhandari

Fellow, Carnegie India

Prof. S.D. Muni

Professor Emeritus, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Dr. Johan Lagerkvist

Professor of Chinese Language and Culture and Director, Stockholm Center for Global Asia, Stockholm University

Dr. Rajat Kathuria

Dean, School of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of Economics, Shiv Nadar University, India

Dr. Usha Chandran

Assistant Professor, Centre for Chinese and South East Asian Studies, School of Language, Literature & Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Dr. Temjenmeren Ao

Associate Fellow, Southeast Asia & Oceania Centre, Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Amb. Venu Rajamony

Professor of Diplomatic Practice, Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University

Commodore R. Seshadri Vasan (Retd.)

Director General, Chennai Centre for China Studies (C3S), and Regional Director, National Maritime Foundation (NMF)

Mr. M R Sivaraman IAS (Retd)

Vice-President, Chennai Centre for China Studies, Former Revenue Secretary, Govt of India

Cmde. Anil Jai Singh

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

Dr. Lance Liangping Gore

Senior Research Fellow, East Asian Institute, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore

Amb. Biren Nanda

Former High Commissioner to Australia, ASEAN, and Indonesia, and Senior Fellow for Act East Diplomacy, Delhi Policy Group

Dr. Chintamani Mahapatra

Founder and Honorary Chairman of Kalinga Institute of Indo-Pacific Studies

Amb. Manjeev Singh Puri

Former Ambassador/Deputy Permanent Representative of India to the UN

Capt. (Dr.) Nitin Agarwala

Senior Fellow, Centre for Joint Warfare Studies (CENJOWS), New Delhi