Dr Dewi Fortuna Anwar

Dr Anwar is Research Director of the Habibie Centre, Jakarta, Indonesia, and author of Indonesia in ASEAN: Foreign Policy and Regionalism (1994)

Mr Abdul Razak Baginda

Mr Baginda is Director of the Malaysian Strategic Research Centre, and co-editor of Asia-Pacific's Security Dilemma: Multilateral Relations Amidst Political, Social and Economic Changes (1998).

Dr Kanti P. Bajpai

Dr Bajpai is Headmaster of the Doon School, Dehradun, India, and was previously Professor of International Politics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is author of Roots of Terrorism (2002).

Ambassador Lakhdar Brahimi

Mr Brahimi is the Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General, and is a former Algerian Foreign Minister. In July 2004, he was awarded the Dag Hammarskjold Medal of the German UN Association.

Professor John English, OC

Dr English is Executive Director of the Centre for International Governance Innovation, Professor of History at the University of Waterloo, and was formerly a Canadian MP. He is author of The Life of Lester Pearson (Vols I-II, 1989-1992).

Mr Roy Gutman

Mr Gutman is a Pulitzer Prize-winner for International Reporting, author of A Witness to Genocide (1993) and co-editor of Crimes of War (1999). He has served as a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace

Mr Allan Gyngell

Mr Gyngell is Executive Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy and co-author of Making Australian Foreign Policy (2003).

Professor Brian Hocking

Professor Brian Hocking is Professor of International Relations in
the Department of Politics, International Relations and European Studies at Loughborough University, UK and a Fellow of the Centre for International Governance Innovation in Canada.

Mr James C. Ingram, AO

Mr Ingram is a former Australian Ambassador to the Philippines and High Commissioner to Canada. He has served as National Director of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, and from 1982-1992 was Executive Director of the World Food Program

Mr Colin Keating

'Mr Keating is Senior Research Scholar and Executive Director, Security Council Report, in the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York, and is a former Secretary for Justice in the Government of New Zealand, and former President of the United Nations Security Council.'

Mr Ahmed Rashid

Mr Rashid is Pakistan correspondent of the Far Eastern Economic Review, and author of a number of books published by Yale University Press, including, most recently, Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia (2002).

Mr Neville J. Roach, AO

Mr Roach is Chairman of Fujitsu Australia Ltd, Chairman of National ICT Australia, and Chairman of the Australia-India Business Council.

Dr Barnett R. Rubin

Dr Rubin is Director of Studies at the Center on International Cooperation at New York University, and author of Blood on the Doorstep: The Politics of Preventive Action (2002).

Major-General Michael G. Smith, AO

Major-General Smith is CEO of AUSTCARE, and previously served as UN Deputy Force Commander in East Timor. He is author of Peacekeeping in East Timor: The Path to Independence (2003).

Professor Ramesh Thakur

Professor Thakur is Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, and Senior Vice-Rector of the United Nations University in Tokyo. He is co-editor of Enhancing Global Governance; Towards a New Diplomacy (2002).

Dr Geoffrey Wiseman

Dr Geoffrey Wiseman is the Director of the USC Center on Public Diplomacy at the Annenberg School and Professor of the Practice of International Relations and Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California.