Zhaoyi Zhu is a leading Middle East expert in China who serves as Executive Director of the Institute of Middle East Studies at Peking University HSBC Business School and has an affiliation at the Institute of International Economic Studies. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Paul Tsai China Center in Fall 2022.

Ke Liu is Chair Professor at the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen and former associate director of the National Institute of Clean and Low-Carbon Energy. He also serves as a director at the Center for China and Globalization. He is involved in research on energy issues and the formulation of policy related to the transition away from carbon in China.

Kazuo Matsushita is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) and a Professor Emeritus of Kyoto University. He is also Chairman of the Japan Society for Gross National Happiness (GNH) Studies, Co-Chair of the Think 7 (T7) Japan 2023, and former President of the International Academic Society for Asian Community (ISAC). He served as a Professor at the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies (Global Environmental Policy) at Kyoto University between 2001 to 2013.

An expert on Japanese energy policy, Arino Yosuke conducts research on the long-term transition strategy of mitigation and adaptation required for climate resilient development in Asia. He consults on climate vulnerability, resilience, and adaptation to climate change, with a focus on energy issues.

Ambassador Chung Rae Kwon has served as the leading advocate for a meaningful response to climate change and a rational energy policy in Korea, and globally. As Director at the Ban Ki Moon Foundation, he serves as Chairman of the Steering Committee of the New Climate Innovation. He served previously as the first Ambassador for Climate Change of the Republic of Korea and Director for Environment and Development Division of United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).

A leading expert on energy policy in ASEAN, Razib Dawood serves as executive director of the ASEAN Centre for Energy and senior power system engineer at Senergy.

Emanuel Pastreich is President of the Asia Institute, a think tank that builds bridges across Asia for cooperation in policy and strategy to respond to climate change, the impact of technological change on human society, and the rapidly shifting nature of international relations.