
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