Sylviane Guillaumont Jeanneney is Emeritus Professor at the Université d’Auvergne.

Sven Gunnar Simonsen is an independent analyst and international reporter, and a former researcher at the International Peace Research Institute.

Sven Grimm is the Director of the Centre for Chinese Studies at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

By Stephany Griffith-Jones is financial markets program director of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University, USA.