| Frances Stewart | Director of Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford |
| Andrew Mack | Director of Human Security Centre, University of British Columbia |
| Tony Addison | Deputy Director of World Institute for Development Economics Research |
| Neclâ Tschirgi | Acting President of International Peace Academy |
| Anke Hoeffler | Research Office of Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford |
| Karen Ballentine | Senior Consultant at Fafo Institute |
| Susan Brown | Director of Peacebuilding Programs, Pearson Peacekeeping Centre |
| Yash Tandon | Director of the Southern and Eastern African Trade Information and Negotiations Initiative |
| Ibrahim Gambari | Under-Secretary-General and Special Advisor on Africa at United Nations |
| Paul van Tongeren | Executive Director of the European Centre for Conflict Prevention |
| Andrés Serbin | President of the Regional Coordination of Social and Economic Research in Central America, CRIES |
| Thelma Ekiyor | Program Director at West Africa Network for Peacebuilding |
| Peter Woodrow | Co-Director of the Reflecting on Peace Practice Project, Alliance for Conflict Prevention and Resolution |
| Danilo Turk | Assistant Secretary-General at Department of Political Affairs, United Nations |
| Julia Taft | Assistant Administrator and Director of Bureau for Crises Prevention and Recovery, United Nations Development Programme |
| Sarah Cliffe | Coordinator of the LICUS initiative at World Bank |
| David Harland | Chief of Peacekeeping Best Practices Unit at Department of Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations |
| Edward Luck | Director of the Center on International Organization of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University |