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PH.D. KERRY BROWN, Executive Director, Centre for Asian Studies, University of Sydney; specializes in domestic and foreign policy issues in contemporary China, Director of the EU funded Europe-China Research and Advisory Network (ECRAN), Analyst, Chatham House Asia Programme, London; research interests include politics and society in contemporary China, foreign policy and the political economy of China.

KSAWERY BURSKI, honorary member of the CAA Program Council; Polish sinologist and diplomat, ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Indonesia, Singapore and China; graduate of the Diplomatic Institute in Beijing; active in Polish diplomacy since 1961, in 1989-1991 served as an advisor to the minister; employee of the Institute of Oriental Studies at the Warsaw University; minister plenipotentiary at the embassy in Beijing; from 1995 to 1999 held the office of ambassador to Indonesia, in 1998 gaining accreditation also in Singapore; in 2000-2004 ambassador to the Republic of China; after leaving active service engaged in consulting work at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and cooperation with universities.

PROF. GLENN HOOK, Director of the National Centre for Japanese Studies in the UK, Director of Research at the White Rose East Asia Center; Fellow at the Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield; Specializing in global and regional Japanese policy studies and decision-making in Japanese foreign policy; Former Fellow at Osaka University of Foreign Studies and Stanford University; Author of numerous publications including Japanese Business Management: Restructuring for Low Growth and Globalization (1997), Japanese Business and Management (現代日本企業 Gendai Nihon kigyō, 2005), with Kudō Akira and Kikkawa Takeo, and Global Governance and Japan: the Institutional Architecture (2007).

PROF. YANG LONG, Director, Asian Research Center, Zhou Enlai School of Public Administration, Nankai University, Associate Dean, Department of International Studies (2007-2011); specializes in the political economy of China; conducts research on politics and development, regional governance in Western political thought; author of numerous publications on regional issues in East Asia.

PROF. MAŁGORZATA PIETRASIAK, Professor at the University of Lodz; graduate of the Moscow Institute of International Relations, specializes in the field of international relations with particular emphasis on Vietnamese issues and Southeast Asia in general, including the integration of Southeast Asia; author of over 60 publications including "The Vietnamese problem at the UN in 1945-1977".

PROF. VLADIMIR PORTYAKOV, deputy director at the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, doctor of economics, specializes in political and economic issues of contemporary China, the role of China in world politics and economy, and Sino-Russian relations; former consul at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Beijing.

PROF. ASH NARAIN ROY, Director, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi; Ph.D. in International Relations, Jawaharlal Nehru University; former Visiting Professor, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico, former Editor, Hindustan Times, took part in the UN Mission to Egypt for Palestine, specializes in issues of democracy, federalism and Indian foreign policy.

PROF. YAMADA MASAHIRO, professor in the Department of Political Science, School of Law and Politics at Kwansei Gakuin University. Ph.D. in law at the University of Tsukuba. Lecturer at the Kwansei Gakuin University since 2005. Affiliated researcher with the University of Tsukuba since 1993.

PROF. WANG YIZHOU, professor of international relations specializing in Chinese foreign policy. Associate Dean, School of International Studies (SIS), Peking University; former editor-in-chief of the monthly journal World Economics and Politics (1998-2008), former deputy director at the Institute for World Economics and Politics (IWEP) of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing (CASS); author of numerous publications and monographs on Chinese foreign policy theory and practice.