ABM SHAMSUD DOZA

Journalist, The Daily Star

ARUN K SAHNI

Former General Officer Commanding in Chief, Indian Army

A N M MUNIRUZZAMAN

President, Bangladesh Institute for Peace and Security Studies (BIPSS)

A R M MEHRAB ALI

Executive Director, ARCED Foundation

AAMNA KHAN

PhD from Jilin University, China

ABDUL AWAL MINTOO

Former President, Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry

ABDUL HAQUE

President, BARVIDA

ABDULLA RASHEED AHMED

Former State Minister, Ministry of Education, Maldives

ABDULLAH HIL RAKIB

Vice President, Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association

Abdullah-AL-Mamun

Associate Professor, Department of Japanese Studies

AIZAZ AHMAD CHAUDHRY

Chairman, Sanober Institute, Islamabad, and Former Foreign Secretary of Pakistan

ALAM HOSSAIN MONDAL

Deputy Chief of Party, USAID-BADGE

ALI IMAM MAJUMDER

Adviser, Interim Government of Bangladesh

ALI RIAZ

Distinguished Professor Illinois State University, USA

AMENA MOHSIN

Former Professor, Department of International Relations, University of Dhaka

ANA MARIA PARASCHIV

International Business Consultant and Founder of Ubuntu World Consulting

ANDRÈ CARSTENS

Chargè D’Affaires, The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

ANDRÉS CHIRIBOGA ZUMÁRRAGA

Former Vice Minister of Education, Ecuador

ANIL TRIGUNAYAT

President, Millennial India International Chamber of Commerce, Industry & Agriculture (MIICCIA)

ANURAG ACHARYA

Director, Policy Entrepreneurs Inc

ARIO BIMO UTOMO

Assistant Professor, East Java Veterans National Development University, Indonesia

ARJAN DE HAAN

Senior Program Specialist, International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

ARJUN SINGH KADIAN

Assistant Professor, Rishihood University

ASHOK SAJJANHAR

President, Institute of Global Studies

ASIF MUNIER

Migration and Refugee Affairs Specialist

ASIF NAZRUL

Adviser, Interim Government of Bangladesh

ATAUR RAHMAN

Consultant-at large, Booze Allen, Washinton DC, USA

AZIZ AL KAISER

Chairman, City Bank

BISWAS BARAL

Editor, The Kathmandu Post

BORIS TADIĆ

Former President of Serbia

CATHERINE MARIE CECIL

Country Representative Cambodia, East-West Management Institute, Inc.

CHADA EL ISLAM BENMAHCENE

Founder & CEO, ENTROGX AI Ventures

CHARLIE CAMPBELL

Senior Correspondent, TIME Magazine

CHRISTIAN BRIX MØLLER

Ambassador, Embassy of Denmark in Bangladesh

CHRISTINE C. FAIR

Professor of Security Studies, Georgetown University

CONSTANTINO XAVIER

Senior Fellow, Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP), New Delhi

CORINNE HENCHOZ PIGNANI

Deputy Head of Mission / Head of Cooperation - Embassy of Switzerland in Bangladesh

DATUK ZURAIDA KAMARUDDIN

Former Minister of Plantation and Commodities of Malaysia

DAVID BREWSTER

Distinguished Research Fellow, Australia India Institute

DAVID MORRIS

CEO, Australia China Business Council

DAVID PATRICIAN

Journalist and International Event Moderator

DEBAPRIYA BHATTACHARYA

Distinguished Fellow, Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD)

DEBJYOTI CHANDA

Chairman and Professor, Rabindra Bharati University

DI MA

Co-Founder & Secretary-General, 1EarthVillage

DOMINIQUE RAKOTOZAFY

Former Minister of National Defense, Madagascar

FAHMIDA KHATUN

Executive Director, Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD)

FAISAL RABBI

Energy Specialist, the World Bank

FAISUL YASEEN

Senior Editor, Greater Kashmir

FARHANA ISLAM

Director and Head, ESG, Grameenphone Limited, Bangladesh

FARIS HADROVIC

Managing Director, CBD d.o.o. Bosnia and Herzegovina

FAYYAZ YASEEN BHIDAL

Executive Director, Accountability Lab Pakistan

Felix Gerdes

Resident Representative, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES)

GHANSHYAM BHANDARI

Ambassador, Embassy of Nepal, Dhaka

GHULAM MOHAMMED ALOMGIR

Chairman, Max Group, Bangladesh

GREGORY SIMONS

Associate Professor , Turiba University in Riga, Latvia

GWYN LEWIS

UN Resident Coordinator, UNRC

HADZA MIN FADHLI ROBBY

Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Islamic University of Indonesia

HALLELUJAH WONDIMU

PhD Researcher, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford

HUMA KHAN

Senior Women protection Advisor, United Nations Mission In South Sudan (UNMISS)

IMTIAZ GUL

Executive Director, Center for Research and Security Studies

IRFAN YAR

Founder & Managing Director, Afghanistan Security Institute Afghanistan

ISHRAT HOSSAIN

Research Fellow, German Institute for Global and Area Studies

JAVED HEIRAN- NIA

Director, Persian Gulf Studies Group, Center for Scientific Research and Middle East Strategic Studies, Iran

JORGE FERNANDO QUIROGA

Former President of Bolivia

JOVAN RATKOVIC

Senior Fellow, Agora Strategy Group AG, Germany

JUDITH MWANIKI

Director, Consortium of Economic Research and Development Studies Kenya

K.M. MOZIBUL HOQUE

Chairman, Shah Group

KARORI SINGH

Former Director and Emeritus Fellow , South Studies Centre, University of Rajasthan

KAZI FAISAL BIN SERAJ

Country Representative, The Asia Foundation

KAZI SHAH MUZAKKER AHMADUL HOQUE

Director, Shah Group and TAS Group

KRZYSZTOF M. ZALEWSKI

President, Michał Boym Institute for Asian and Global Studies, Warsaw

KYLE INAN

CEO, KI Asset Management Company

LAURA LAROCCHIA

Marketing & Operations Manager, Disal Consulting

LEO WIGGER

Editor, Zenith Magazine

LEONARDO PAZ NEVES

Researcher, International Intelligence Unit Getulio Vargas Foundation

LIPING XIA

Professor, Department of Diplomatic Studies, China Foreign Affairs University

M. SAKHAWAT HOSSAIN

Adviser, Interim Government of Bangladesh

M. SHSFIULLAH

Former Ambassador to Libya

MADALITSO ZILILO PHIRI

Post Doctoral Fellow, South Africa United Kingdom Bilateral Research Chair in Political Theory, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

MAHATHIR MOHAMAD

Former Prime Minister of Malaysia

MAHBUBUR RAHMAN

Professor, Department of Political Science and Sociology, North South University

MAKHETHE MAKAMASE

Researcher, University of Pretoria

MAMUN RASHID

Economist and Chairman, Financial Excellence Ltd

MARCUS DAVIES

Political Counsellor, Canadian High Commission to Bangladesh

MARIYAM NASIR

Director General, Ministry of Education, Maldives

MASA TADIC

Business Development Manager, Optima Fide

MASHRUR AREFIN

Managing Director, City Bank

MD TOUHID HOSSAIN

Adviser, Interim Government of Bangladesh

MIR NASIR HOSSAIN

Former President, Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry

MIRAJ AHMED CHOWDHURY

Founder, Digitally Right

MOHAMMAD ZAHIDUL ISLAM KHAN

Visiting Research Fellow, Dept of Politics & Int'l Relation, University of Reading, UK

MONZIMA HAQUE

Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, University of Dhaka

Morshedul Alam Chaklader

Managing Director, TAS Group

MOUSSA MARA

Former Prime Minister, Republic of Mali

MUBASHAR HASAN

Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Oslo, Norway

MUHAMMAD ABDUL MAZID

Former Chairman, National Board of Revenue

MUHAMMAD AMIR RANA

President, Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS)

Muhammad Yunus

Chief Adviser to The Interim Government of Bangladesh

MUNIRA KHAN

Chair, Centre for Governance Studies

MUSTAQ KHAN

Professor of Economics, SOAS University of London

NARAYAN ADHIKARI

Co-founder and South Asia Representative, Accountability Lab

NARDIA SIMPSON

Acting High Commissioner, Australian High Commission in Bangladesh

NAVINE MURSHID

Professor, North South University

NAZMUL AHSAN KALIMULLAH

Professor, Department of Public Administration, University of Dhaka

NURUL KABIR

Editor, New Age

PARK YOUNG-SIK

Ambassador, Embassy of the Republic of Korea

PARVEZ KARIM ABBASI

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, East West University

PEACE CHIKODINAKA EZE

Journalist and Head of News, C54 News Channel

PETR TOPYCHKANOV

Head of the Section for New Challenges in South and Southeast Asia, Institute of World Economy and International Relations

PRAMOD JAISWAL

Research Director, Nepal Institute for International Cooperation and Engagement (NIICE)

PRANAY VERMA

High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh

PYROU CHUNG

Director of Open Development Initiative, East West Management Institute

RAJA DEVASISH ROY

Chief, Chakma Circle

RAJU MAHAJAN

Principal & Managing Attorney, Mahajan Law LLC

RANI YAN YAN

Advisor of the Chakma Circle Chief

RASHED AL MAHMUD TITUMIR

Chairperson, Unnayan Onneshan

REED AESCHLIMAN

Mission Director, USAID Bangladesh

REZAUL KARIM

Chairman, Bangladesh Power Development Board

S. M. SHAMEEM REZA

Professor, Department of Mass Communication & Journalism, University of Dhaka

SABYASACHI DUTTA

Executive Director Asian Confluence, India

SAMIHA KHAN

Senior Lecturer, Department of Development Studies, Daffodil International University

SANJAY KUMAR BHARDWAJ

Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University

SELIM R.F HUSSAIN

Managing Director, BRAC Bank Limited

SELMA OBARČANIN

Chief Marketing Officer, SO Quantum Growth Agency

SHAFQAT MUNIR

Senior Research Fellow and Head Bangladesh Centre for Terrorism Research (BCTR) , BIPSS

SHANTHIE MARIET D'SOUZA

Founder, Mantraya Institute for Strategic Studies (MISS), India

SHAYAN SHAFI

Energy Team Leader, USAID Bangladesh

SHEELA TASNIM HUQ

Senior Governance Specialist, UNDP

SHEIKH MOHAMMAD DANIEL

Director of Sonali Life Insurance, Bangladesh

SIDDHARTH VARADARAJAN

Founding Editor, The Wire

SIMON KOFI TETTEY

Shipping Management Business Analyst, World Health Organization Global Service Centre Malaysia

SMRUTI S PATTANAIK

Research Fellow, Manohar Parikkar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, India

SOHAIL MOHMOOD

Director General, Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI), Pakistan

SREERADHA DATTA

Professor, OP Jindal Global University

SRIPARNA PATHAK

Associate Professor, OP Jindal Global University

STEFAN LILLER

UNDP Resident Representative in Bangladesh

STEPHEN KOVATS

Director, Agency for Open Culture and Critical Transformation gGmbH

SUHASINI SHERENE HAIDAR

Diplomatic Editor, The Hindu

SUTHIKORN KINGKAEW

Advisor, KBU Research Institute.

SUVOJIT BAGCHI

India Correspondent, Prothom Alo

SYED AHMED MAROOF

High Commissioner, Embassy of Pakistan in Bangladesh

SYED MISBAH UDDIN AHMED

Director General, Bangladesh Institute of Maritime Research and Development (BIMRAD)

SYEEDA MEER

Director of Energy, Procurement and Project Finance, USAID-BADGE

TANVIR AHMED

Managing Director, Sheltech Group

TANVIR MAHMUD

Senior Governance Specialist at the Democratic Governance Cluster, UNDP Bangladesh

TANYEL BEDI TAYSI

Country Director-Bangladesh, The International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES)

TANZEEM CHOWDHURY

CEO, Omera Petroleum Limited and Omera Cylinders Limited

TASNEEM KHALIL

Editor-in-chief, Netra News, Sweden

TOUSEEF MEHRAJ RAINA

Founder, JK Policy Institute

VICTORIA PANOVA

Head, BRICS Expert Council, Russia

WU LIN

Associate Professor, Institute of Asian Studies (IAS), China Foreign Affairs University

YOSHIKAZU KATO

Research Fellow, Rakuten Securities Economic Research Institute

YOUSEF S. Y. RAMADAN

Ambassador, Embassy of the State of Palestine in Bangladesh

ZIAUR RAHMAN

Country Manager, H&M

ZILLUR RAHMAN

Executive Director, Centre for Governance Studies (CGS) and Chair, Bay of Bengal Conversation