Ramiz Mehdiyev, Head of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan
Novruz Mammadov, Assistant to the President for Foreign Policy Issues, Head of the Department of Foreign Relations of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan
Elmar Mammadyarov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan
Farhad Mammadov, Director, Center for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SAM)
Bulent Aras, Professor, Sabanci University, Turkey
Brenda Shaffer, Senior Lecturer, School of Political Sciences, University of Haifa
Frederick Starr, Professor, Chairman, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, Johns Hopkins University
Glen E. Howard, President of The Jamestown Foundation
Ibrahim Kalin, Chief Advisor to the Prime Minister of Turkey, Founding Director of the SETA Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research
Neil MacFarlane, Professor, Oxford University
Svante Cornell, Research Director, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, Silk Road Studies Program, Johns Hopkins University
Zalmay Khalilzad, Former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, and the United Nations, President of Gryphon Partners (GP)