Azra Sayeed, Feminist Scholar Activist

Thoman Daniel, Senior Fellow, Institute of Strategic & International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia

Associate Professor Peter Beattie, Political Economist, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

Wong Chin Huat, Political Scientist

Prof. Emeritus Abdul Rahman Embong, Sociologist and Anthropologist , UKM

Katy Brown, Postdoctoral Fellow, Maynooth University

Dobby Chew, CEO of the human rights organisation, HAYAT

Sevan Doraisamy, Executive Director, SUARAM

Dr Dr Lee Hwok-Aun, Senior Fellow, Malaysian Studies Programme, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute

Dr Taimur Rahman, Author, The Class Structure of Pakistan

Srabani Chakraborty, Activist, All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA)

Raymon Ram

Jeremy Lim and Zikri Rahman, DEMO Project

Kishore Mahbubani, Author, Living the Asian Century

Peter Beattie, Political Economist, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

Meredith Weiss, Professor of Political Science, University of Albany | Ooi Kok Hin, Political Sociologist