Simon Anholt, place branding expert and author, London
Egeman Bagis, Minister for EU Affairs and Chief Negotiator, Ankara
Elie Barnavi, author, historian and former Israeli Ambassador to France
Mark Entin, Director of European Studies Institute, MGIMO University, Moscow
Susan Glasser, Executive Editor, Foreign Policy, Washington D.C.
Zeynep Gogus, journalist and founder/president of TR Plus, Istanbul
Dan Hamilton of the School of Advanced International Studies, John Hopkins University, Washington D.C.
Shada Islam, Senior Policy Advisor, European Policy Centre, Brussels
Bahadir Kaleagasi, International Coordinator of Turkish business lobby TUSIAD, Brussels/Istanbul
Craig Kennedy, President, German Marshall Fund of the United States, Washington D.C.
Fyodor Alexandrovich Lukyanov, Editor-in-chief, Russia in Global Politics, Moscow 
David Ringrose, Head of Information, External Relations Directorate, European Commission, Brussels
Dmitri Trenin, Director of Moscow Centre, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Moscow
Tomas Valasek, Director of Foreign Policy and Defence, Centre for European Reform, London
Martin Walker, Senior Director or Global Business Policy Council and former Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, United Press International, Washington D.C.
Richard Wike, Associate Director of the Pew Global Attitudes Project, Washington D.C.
Dr. Hakan Yilmaz, Politics Professor, Bogazici University, Istanbul
Christopher Caldwell, Senior Editor, Weekly Standard magazine, Washington DC