Alicia J. Campi is Vice President of The Mongolia Society and SAIS/Johns Hopkins University, USA. Dr. Campi is a China/Mongolian specialist and a former U.S. State Department Foreign Service Officer of 14 years who served in Asian posts (Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, and Mongolia) and the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in New York.

Jagannath P. Panda is Research Fellow and Coordinator at Manohar Parikkar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA), New Delhi, India. Dr. Panda is in charge of the East Asia Centre at the MP-IDSA, and responsible for the track-II and track 1.5 dialogue with think-tanks in China, Taiwan, Japan, and Korea.