Professor Roel Sterckx, Joseph Needham Professor of Chinese History, Science and Civilization, University of Cambridge

Professor Ronnie Po-chia Hsia, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History, Asian Studies, and Religious Studies, The Pennsylvania State University; Academician of Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Professor Judith B. Farquhar, Max Palevsky of Anthropology and Social Sciences; Chairperson, Department of Anthropology, The University of Chicago

Professor Deborah S. Davis, Professor of Sociology,   Yale University

Professor Benjamin A. Elman, Gordon Wu '58 Professor of Chinese Studies, Professor of East Asian Studies and History Chair, Department of East Asian Studies, Princeton University

Professor Hsu Cho-Yun, Professor Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh; Academician of Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Professor Angela Leung, Director and Chair Professor, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Professor Sander L Gilman, Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences, Emory University;  Visiting Research Professor of European Studies, The University of Hong Kong

Professor Elisabeth Köll, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Professor Chen Zhiwu, Professor of Finance, Yale School of Management

Professor Thomas G. Rawski, Professor of Economics and History,   University of Pittsburgh

Professor Deborah S. Davis, Professor of Sociology,   Yale University

Professor James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Professor of Anthropology, Yale University

Professor Prasenjit Duara, Director of Research, Humanities and Social Sciences National University of Singapore

Professor Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University, and Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute