Francis Fukuyama, the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and director of its International Development Program

Shi Zhengfu, Chinese economist

Professor Kenneth Pomeranz, UCI Chancellor`s Professor of History at the University of California-Irvine.

Michael Levin, author of The Next Great Clash

Parag Khanna, Director of the Global Governance Initiative of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation