Professor Ivan Shearer AM RFD, Emeritus Professor, University of New South Wales, Member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee (elected). Eminent international law expert and commentator.

Professor Gillian Triggs is the Director, British Institute for International and Comparative Law, London. Formerly she was the Director of the Institute of Comparative and International Law and had a chair in law at the University of Melbourne. Gillian is a public international lawyer with publications in offshore petroleum rights, indigenous rights, climate change and dispute resolution under the World Trade Organisation.

Associate Professor Richard Herr, School of Government, University of Tasmania: A South Pacific expert who has written widely on South Pacific regional and international issues. He is also the Deputy Director of CIRA.

Prof Ross Fitzgerald, Emeritus Professor, History and Politics, Griffith University, Queensland, an eminent historian and political scientist, well-known Australian writer, broadcaster, administrator and political commentator. He is also a member of the Values Education Advisory Committee established by the federal Minister for Education, Dr Brendan Nelson. This involves advising the Minister how best to facilitate the inculcation of values and civics in Australian schools.

Prof Ken McPherson, Visiting Professor, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany, formerly of Curtin University, well-known expert on South Asia and Indian Ocean Affairs.

Assoc. Professor Philip Powell, Indiana University, Indianapolis. Formerly an Exchange Student at the University of the South Pacific. Commentator, writer and speaker on Pacific regional integration and other Pacific Island Countries' issues, including Fiji.

Assoc. Professor Shankari Sundaraman, Associate Professor at the Centre for South, Central, Southeast Asian and Southwest Pacific Studies of the School of International Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University , where she teaches Southeast Asian studies. Her research also focuses on the Evolution of India's Look East Policy and its expansion to cover regions of the South Pacific.