- Zheng Yu (Professor, School of International Relations & Public Affairs, Fudan University; Distinguished Professor of Shanghai Oriental Scholar)
- Wang Feng (Foreign Member of the National Academy of Lincei in Italy; Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine)
- Jean Tirole (2014 Nobel Laureate in Economics; Honorary Chairman of the Foundation JJ Laffont-Toulouse School of Economics)
- Dino Patti Djalal (Founder of Foreign Policy Community of Indonesia; Former Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs, Indonesia; Former Ambassador of Indonesia to the United States)
- Chung Jae-Ho (Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to China)
- Chas Freeman (Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, United States; Former Ambassador of the United States to Saudi Arabia)
- Arancha González (Dean, Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences Po; Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, Spain)
- Xu Bu (President, China Institute of International Studies; Former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to ASEAN and Chile)
- Svein Stølen (Rector, University of Oslo)