- Hisao Kanamori, honorary adviser, Japan Center for Economic Research; chairman of the Board of Trustees, Economic Research Institute for Northeast Asia (Japan).
- Grzegorz Kolodko, professor, Transformation, Integration and Globalization Economic Research (TIGER) at Kozminski University in Warsaw (Poland).
- Li Cong, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China).
- Laszlo Csaba, professor, Central European University and Corvinus University of Budapest (Hungary).
- Michael Ellman, emeritus professor, University of Amsterdam (Netherlands).
- Michael Emerson, associate senior research fellow, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) (Great Britain).