| Ajay Kumar Dubey | Former Rector and Chair (African Studies), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India |
| Bijay K Pratihari | Professor, Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India |
| Hussein Solomon | Professor, Political Science, University of Free State, South Africa |
| Santosh Singh | Assistant Professor, Aryabhatta College, Delhi University, New Delhi, India |
| Rashmi Rani Anand | Centre for African Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India |
| Aditya Anshu | Assistant Professor, International Relations, College of Arts and Sciences, Abu Dhabi University, UAE |
| Chandani Tiwari | Assistant Professor, School of International Cooperation, Security and Strategic Languages, Rashtriya Raksha University, Gujarat, India |
| Ivy Handique | Researcher, Vivekanand International Foundation, New Delhi, India |
| Apoorva Singegol | Researcher, Centre for African Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India |
| Abanti Bhattacharya | Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi, New Delhi |
| Sachin Chaturvedi | Director General, Research and Information System for Developing Countries, New Delhi, India |
| Sujan R Chinoy | Director-General, Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA), New Delhi, India |
| Arvind Gupta | Director, Vivekananda International Foundation, New Delhi, India |
| Sunjoy Joshi | Chairman, Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, India |
| Amitabh Kundu | Former Professor, Centre for Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India |
| Rama Malkote | Professor (Retd.), Centre for Indian Ocean Studies, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India |
| Kavita Sharma | Professor (Retd.) and Former President, South Asian University, New Delhi, India |
| Li Anshan | Professor and Director, Institute of Afro-Asian Studies and Centre for African Studies, School of International Studies, Peking University, China |
| Yong Kyu Chang | Professor and Director, Institute of African Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, South Korea |
| Donald P Chimanikire | Professor, Faculty of Social Studies, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe |
| Toyin Falola | Jacob and Frances Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, University of Texas, USA |
| Steven Friedman | Professor and Director, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Adam Habib | Director of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK |
| Annette Skovsted Hansen | Faculty Member, History and Global Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark |
| M Raymond Izarali | Fellow, Tshepo Institute for the Study of Contemporary Africa and Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada |
| Gilbert M Khadiagala | Professor, International Relations, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Dennis Rumley | Professor of Indian Ocean Studies, Curtin University, Western Australia, Australia |
| Owen Sichone | Professor and Director, Dag Hammarskjold Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, Cooperbelt University, Kitwe, Zambias, Zambia |
| Aili Mari Tripp | Professor, Department of Political Science, Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA |
| Alexey Vasiliev | Professor and Director, Institute of African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia |
| Peter Anders Von Doepp | Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Vermont, Burlington, USA |