Naila Kabeer, Emeritus Professor of Gender and Development, London School of Economics (LSE)

Dr Amit Ranjan, Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore

Dato' Hamdan Abdul Majeed, Managing Director, Think City

Dato' Professor Ahmad Farhan Sadullah, Vice Chancellor and Professor of Transport , Universiti Putra Malaysia

Harun Al Rashid, migrant rights activist

Charles Santiago, co-chair, Asean Parliamentarians for Human Rights

Anand Raj, Vice President , Malaysian Bar Council

Sabrina Fatma Ahmad, founder, Sehri Tales | Abak Hussain, co-founder, Sehri Tales

Faisal Abdul Aziz, Chairman, Bersih

Dr Sakia Haque, Founder, Travelettes

Adrian Pereira, Executive Director, North-South Initiative

H. E. Md. Shameem Ahsan, High Commissioner of Bangladesh to Malaysia

Dr James Dorsey, Senior Fellow, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

Dr Ali Riaz, President , American Institute of Bangladesh Studies

Michael Kugelman, Director, Wilson Center's South Asia Institute

Dr Ali Riaz, Professor​ at the Department of Politics and Government, Illinois State University