- Wu Dahui – Deputy Director, Institute for Russian Studies at Tsinghua University (QS-15), Professor;
- Bharti Chhibber – Doctor, Professor, University of Delhi (India);
- Arthur L. Demchuk – Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Head, Department of Comparative Political Science, Lomonosov Moscow State University;
- Andrei V. Vinogradov – Doctor of Political Sciences, Head, Center for Contemporary China Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences.