| Junaid Ahmad
| Vice President Operations, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, Washington DC, USA |
| Adriana Allen
| Professor, Development Planning and Urban Sustainability at Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London, UK |
| Xuemei Bai
| Distinguished Professor, Urban Environment and Human Ecology, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia |
| Eugenie Birch
| Lawrence C. Nussdorf Chair of Urban Research and Education, Penn Institute for Urban Research, Philadelphia, USA |
| Michael Cohen
| Director, Studley Graduate Program in International Affairs and Professor of International Affairs, Milano School of International Affairs, The New School, New York, USA |
| Bert de Vries
| Professor, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| David Dodman
| Director General, IHS, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| Devesh Kapur
| Starr Foundation South Asia Studies Professor and Asia Programs Director at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC, USA |
| Sander van der Leeuw
| Director Emeritus, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability Arizona State University, Tempe, USA |
| Brian McGrath
| Professor of Urban Design, Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York, USA |
| Peter Newman
| Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University, Perth, Australia |
| Susan Parnell
| Global Challenges Research Professor, School of Geography, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK |
| Sheela Patel
| Director, Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC), Mumbai, India |
| Srinath Reddy
| Honorary Distinguished Professor, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India |
| Debra Roberts
| Professor Willem Schermerhorn Chair, Faculty of Geo-Information Science, University of Twente, The Netherlands |
| Jennifer Robinson
| Chair of Human Geography, University College London, UK |
| Ananya Roy
| Professor of Urban Planning and Social Welfare, University of California, Los Angeles, USA |
| Bish Sanyal
| Professor, Director of the Special Program in Urban and Regional Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA |
| Karen Seto
| Frederick C. Hixon Professor of Geography and Urbanization Science, Yale School of the Environment, New Haven, USA |
| Awadhendra Sharan
| Director, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, India |
| Abdoumaliq Simone
| Senior Professorial Fellow, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK |
| Rafael Tuts
| Director, Global Programme Division, UN Habitat, Nairobi, Kenya |